Contributor Danny Wright
Reviews / Album
Cut Copy - Haiku from Zero
There’s an effervescent sparkle that runs through it.
September 22, 2017 7:50am
Reviews / Album
Justice - Woman
Six years since their last album, Justice’s maximalist disco embraces joy and new tricks.
November 18, 2016 10:00am
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Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Former The Walkmen and Vampire Weekend members capture the closeness and intimacy of a great collaboration on their first LP.
September 30, 2016 11:13am
Features / Interviews
The world still needs Pixies
Three decades to the good and despite personal turmoil, Pixies are happy to keep on carrying on. “We’re in awe that we’re still getting embraced out there, still relevant,” they tell Danny Wright.
September 21, 2016 11:33am
Reviews / Live
LCD Soundsystem exceed expectations at Lovebox 2016
A band who’ve lost none of their ability to have the crowd eating out the palm of their hand.
July 21, 2016 3:03pm
Features / Interviews
Bat For Lashes: Here comes the bride
From tragedy to Tinder and everything in between - with her latest conceptual epic, Bat For Lashes is getting right to the heart of love itself.
July 21, 2016 12:15pm
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Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla
Crossing borders to take their first steps, Yumi Zouma have truly arrived with a debut that’s more than the sum of its parts.
May 27, 2016 9:00am
Features / Interviews
Cate Le Bon: “I thought people might think it’s a concept album about crabs!”
Letting loose with wild, surreal ideas, ‘Crab Day’ is this Welsh musician’s most bonkers record yet.
April 14, 2016 10:38am
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Future of the Left - the peace & truce of future of the left
This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on.
April 8, 2016 10:00am
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Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Hecker has once again shaped something that feels weighty and important, shafts of light illuminating the dark landscape.
April 8, 2016 10:00am
Reviews / Album
The KVB - Of Desire
There’s no doubting the precision of the songwriting, as each song digs its way into your brain.
March 11, 2016 10:00am
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David Bowie - Blackstar
‘Blackstar’ seems to be him giving everything, allowing all of his creative impulses to flourish.
January 7, 2016 11:30am
Features
Upbringing: Matt Berry
We grill the actor, comedian, musician, and all-round creative guy on his musical upbringing.
December 21, 2015 8:40am
Features
One man band?: When groups lose their sense of self
Danny Wright takes a look at the bands with ever-changing line-ups and asks, at what point does a band change beyond recognition?
November 16, 2015 1:01pm
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Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
He may not be in our world completely yet but you should keep making the trip to his.
November 13, 2015 10:00am
Reviews / Album
Floating Points - Elaenia
It’s this ebb and flow that makes the record so mesmerising.
November 6, 2015 10:00am
Features / Interviews
El Vy: “It’s an album of guilty pleasures without the guilt”
The National’s Matt Berninger and Menomena’s Brent Knopf have joined forces for a debut album.
October 12, 2015 3:53pm
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Kwabs - Love + War
Much of this album feels too polite and too pedestrian.
September 11, 2015 10:00am
Features / Interviews
Low: “If you stand close enough you can see the differences”
Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have been on the radar for decades, but new album ‘Ones and Sixes’ marks a big change. It’s all in the detail, they tell Danny Wright.
September 7, 2015 1:00pm
Reviews / Album
Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now…
Lydon remains part pantomime, part snarling truth sayer.
September 4, 2015 10:00am