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LA Priest - Gene (4th June 2020, Reviews)
Do Nothing - Zero Dollar Bill (9th April 2020, Reviews)
Purity Ring - WOMB (2nd April 2020, Reviews)
Talk Show - These People (26th March 2020, Reviews)
Ringo Deathstarr - Ringo Deathstarr (26th March 2020, Reviews)
Fake Laugh - Dining Alone (12th March 2020, Reviews)
Muncie Girls - B-Sides The Point (12th March 2020, Reviews)
Christine and the Queens - La vita nuova (28th February 2020, Reviews)
Albums of 2020: Dream Wife (21st February 2020, Features)
Indie music’s bizarrest new bunch: FEET (9th December 2019, Neu)
Foals bring sweaty chaos as The Great Escape’s returning heroes (5th December 2019, Reviews)
Confidence Man, Another Sky, Fat White Family and more bring The Great Escape 2019 to a varied and excitable close (5th December 2019, Reviews)
Willie J Healey - Hello Good Morning (14th November 2019, Reviews)
Yak - Atlas Complex (31st October 2019, Reviews)
Deep DIIV (14th October 2019, Features)
Big Thief - Two Hands (10th October 2019, Reviews)
Kim Gordon - No Home Record (10th October 2019, Reviews)
BODEGA - Shiny New Model (10th October 2019, Reviews)
Surfbort, Crack Cloud, Pottery and more shine bright on Day One of The Great Escape 2019 (5th October 2019, News)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (4th October 2019, Reviews)
A brief look into… black midi’s ‘schlagenheim’ (16th September 2019, Features)
Alex Cameron - Miami Memory (13th September 2019, Reviews)
Pixies - Beneath The Eyrie (13th September 2019, Reviews)
Cate Le Bon talks ‘Reward’: “Music became my cathartic outlet at night” (13th September 2019, Features)
Iggy Pop - Free (6th September 2019, Reviews)
Squid - Town Centre (6th September 2019, Reviews)
Kindness - Something Like A War (6th September 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Bombay Bicycle Club, Foals, Grimes and more (6th September 2019, Features)
Jay Som - Anak Ko (23rd August 2019, Reviews)
Modern Nature - How To Live (23rd August 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: The 1975, Declan McKenna and more (23rd August 2019, Features)
Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place (16th August 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Mystery Jets, The Big Moon, Swim Deep, BODEGA and more (16th August 2019, Features)
Ty Segall - First Taste (2nd August 2019, Reviews)
The Flaming Lips - King’s Mouth (19th July 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Charli XCX and Chris, Sleater-Kinney, Squid and more (19th July 2019, Features)
Palace - Life After (12th July 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Brittany Howard, The Futureheads, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and more (5th July 2019, Features)
Thom Yorke - Anima (28th June 2019, Reviews)
Bad Breeding - Exiled (21st June 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Sheer Mag, Metronomy, Biffy Clyro and more (21st June 2019, Features)
The weirdos are taking over: Surfbort and Viagra Boys (18th June 2019, Features)
The Life Aquatic: Squid (9th June 2019, Features)
Squid, Black Country, New Road and White Denim reign supreme at Visions 2019 (8th June 2019, Reviews)
Tracks: Girl Band, Liam Gallagher, Sløtface, Bon Iver & more (7th June 2019, Features)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - And Now For The Whatchamacallit (31st May 2019, Reviews)
Amyl and the Sniffers - Amyl and the Sniffers (23rd May 2019, Reviews)
Swimming Tapes - Morningside (23rd May 2019, Reviews)
Getting chatty with Talk Show (8th May 2019, Neu)
Flamingods - Levitation (3rd May 2019, Reviews)
ALASKALASKA - The Dots (3rd May 2019, Reviews)
Aldous Harding - Designer (26th April 2019, Reviews)
PAWS - Your Church on My Bonfire (26th April 2019, Reviews)
Drugdealer - Raw Honey (19th April 2019, Reviews)
Stealing Sheep - Big Wows (19th April 2019, Reviews)
Crows - Silver Tongues (22nd March 2019, Reviews)
Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond (22nd March 2019, Reviews)
Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury (1st March 2019, Reviews)
POND - Tasmania (1st March 2019, Reviews)
404 - Guild One (28th February 2019, Reviews)
Methyl Ethel - Triage (15th February 2019, Reviews)
Perfect Son - Cast (15th February 2019, Reviews)
Woman’s Hour - Ephyra (12th February 2019, Reviews)
Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock (8th February 2019, Reviews)
Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between (15th January 2019, Reviews)
Pixies wind back the years at London’s Roundhouse (11th December 2018, Reviews)
Whenyoung - Given Up (8th November 2018, Reviews)
Thom Yorke - Suspiria (26th October 2018, Reviews)
Spiritualized bring majesty - and an orchestra - to Hammersmith Apollo (24th September 2018, Reviews)
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (7th September 2018, Reviews)
Menace Beach - Black Rainbow Sound (31st August 2018, Reviews)
White Denim - Performance (24th August 2018, Reviews)
Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef (17th August 2018, Reviews)
Sunflower Bean cement their status as indie big-hitters at rapturous KOKO date (4th August 2018, Reviews)
Ty Segall and White Fence - Joy (20th July 2018, Reviews)
Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose (13th July 2018, Reviews)
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita (22nd June 2018, Reviews)
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage (15th June 2018, Reviews)
MOURN - Sorpresa Familia (15th June 2018, Reviews)
Black Honey light up Omeara at raucous London headline show (14th June 2018, Reviews)
Hilary Woods - Colt (8th June 2018, Reviews)
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice EP (25th May 2018, Reviews)
Big Ups - Two Parts Together (18th May 2018, Reviews)
Daniel Blumberg - Minus (4th May 2018, Reviews)
Twin Shadow - Caer (27th April 2018, Reviews)
MIEN - MIEN (6th April 2018, Reviews)
GUM - The Underdog (6th April 2018, Reviews)
Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden (30th March 2018, Reviews)
Childhood, Oslo, London (17th August 2014, Reviews)
Secret Garden Party 2014 (29th July 2014, Reviews)
Years & Years, Village Underground, London (26th June 2014, Reviews)
Goat, Roundhouse, London (10th June 2014, Reviews)
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