Liima - 1982
Like playing an 8-bit video game on a 2017 console.
Grant Rindner
Citizen - As You Please
More about personal turmoil than political protest.
The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts
A tightly wound, intimate record.
Cold War Kids - L.A. Divine
There’s logic to what’s going on here but it still feels unnatural.
And it was all… Yellow Days
Unrequited love helped give this 18-year-old prodigy his big break.
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Simultaneously aloft with cloud-like serenity and anchored in real world anxieties.
Dams of the West - Youngish American
Vivid lyrics, lush melodies and Americana influences.
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
An urgent, hard-driving assault.
Gone is Gone - Echolocation
An unceasing onslaught of sound.
Mura Masa is sure to be massive
Guernsey upstart turned electronic superhero (roll with it) Alex Crossan is shooting for the stars, with a queue of collaborators - from A.K. Paul to A$AP Rocky - lining up behind him.
Alex Izenberg - Harlequin
Izenberg has a firm grasp on the strange side of things.
TOY: a shot in the dark
With new album 'Clear Shot', TOY are wafting away the psychedelic clouds and charging ahead.
