SBTRKT - Temporary View (ft. Sampha)
‘Temporary View’ keeps SBTRKT fans hanging onto his every move.
9th June 2014
Reviews
OFF Festival 2014
After this year’s scenes, it deserves to be one of the biggest festivals on the planet.
8th June 2014
Lower Than Atlantis, Dingwalls, London
Despite the runaway mainstream success of ‘Here We Go’, Lower Than Atlantis seem more at home in these sweatboxes than ever.
8th June 2014
Jack White - Lazaretto
4 Stars
It shouldn’t be a Jack White record. And yet it couldn’t be anything but.
6th June 2014
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
4 Stars
Big-hearted songs that breeze straight past bummed out despondency.
6th June 2014
Clean Bandit - New Eyes
2 Stars
The band’s genre-splicing potential is lost on a largely tedious debut.
5th June 2014
Dub Thompson - 9 Songs
4 Stars
A record replete with droning psychedelia, an infectious energy and a sinister, carnivalesque feel.
5th June 2014
Tom Vek - Luck
3 Stars
More questions than answers, more problems than solutions.
5th June 2014
Glass Animals - ZABA
4 Stars
An often scintillating debut.
5th June 2014
Alexis Taylor - Await Barbarians
2 Stars
Little more than an indulgent side-project.
5th June 2014
Circa Waves - Young Chasers
Let forthcoming festivals be the judge of whether these youngsters are actually sweeping the nation.
5th June 2014
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
This is a more enigmatic, cinematic and dramatic Lana Del Rey.
5th June 2014
Real Lies - North Circular
Real Lies are the real deal.
5th June 2014
The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits
2 Stars
A long way from their best work.
4th June 2014
Kasabian - 48:13
2 Stars
A little bit like if Jez and Super Hans from Peep Show got a record deal.
4th June 2014
Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
3 Stars
Goofily serious, but rarely ever with the intention of fun.
4th June 2014
Caribou - Can’t Do Without You
It’s the sound of the guy behind the desk offering himself up.
4th June 2014
A. G. Cook - Beautiful
The head of PC Music goes it alone, with squeaky clean Ibiza vibes the sparkly result.
4th June 2014
clipping. - CLPPNG
4 Stars
The thing that makes ‘CLPPNG’ so appealing isn’t how it subverts norms; it’s how it embraces them.
3rd June 2014
Jack Garratt - Worry
‘Worry’ doesn’t fret or cave into pressure, in a take from Jack Garratt’s debut EP.
3rd June 2014
Biffy Clyro, Astoria, London
The venues get bigger, the egos remain the same. Biffy Clyro, casual as ever, stroll onstage and rip straight into new set opener ‘Toys Toys Toys Choke Toys Toys Toys’.
14th June 2003
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.