Lily Allen - West End Girl
5 Stars
Breathtaking and heartbreaking in so many different ways.
31st October 2025
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Suede — Antidepressants
4 Stars
A solid, pleasantly dense record from a band who’ve been solid for decades yet.
3rd September 2025
Primal Scream — Come Ahead
4 Stars
Another chapter in a band priding themselves on forward movement while celebrating their storied past.
8th November 2024
Pixies — The Night The Zombies Came
4-5 Stars
It’s when the pattern deviates somewhat from the expected that it’s most exciting.
23rd October 2024
SOFT PLAY — Heavy Jelly
5 Stars
The pair have come a long way to get here, but have made easily their best album yet by simply being themselves.
17th July 2024
Everything Everything — Mountainhead
4 Stars
An album that continues the quartet’s knack for pairing potent socio-political commentary with delicious pop nous.
1st March 2024
Kylie Minogue — Tension
5 Stars
There’s no pretension to its greatness — just our Kylie.
19th September 2023
Pixies — Doggerel
4 Stars
Cynicism at the door, ‘Doggerel’ is an enjoyable – and exciting – listen.
30th September 2022
Danger Mouse & Black Thought — Cheat Codes
4 Stars
This long-awaited album arrives as a tribute to a whole scene rather than just two artists.
12th August 2022
Johnny Marr — Fever Dreams Pts 1 – 4
3 Stars
Moments of greatness are plentiful, but ‘Fever Dreams…’ shines brightest when Marr lets his guitar do the talking.
25th February 2022
Miles Kane — Change The Show
3 Stars
All in all, the blanketing lime-lit production, the in-your-face ’60s nostalgia, the five-sugars-in-the-tea gooiness of it all may be too cloying for some.
21st January 2022
Johnny Marr — Fever Dreams Pt. 1
4 Stars
The polished sound of Johnny Marr putting his best foot forward.
13th October 2021
The Driver Era - Girlfriend
3 Stars
It possesses a slinky line in R&B‑tinged, ‘80s-indebted pop.
13th October 2021
Rejjie Snow — Baw Baw Black Sheep
3 Stars
Ultimately, it just doesn’t quite work.
8th July 2021
Kylie — Disco
3-5 Stars
Helmed by pop’s most lovable stalwart, you can’t help but crack a smile.
5th November 2020
The Jaded Hearts Club — You’ve Always Been Here
1-5 Stars
In short, it is fucking dire so, of course, it has arrived in our desperate, joy-deprived laps now just to rub salt in the wound.
2nd October 2020
Dope Lemon — Smooth Big Cat
3-5 Stars
An enveloping, blissed-out jam of a listen.
12th July 2019
Karen O & Danger Mouse — Lux Prima
5 Stars
A near-flawless advertisement for the power of collaboration.
12th March 2019
The Prodigy — No Tourists
3 Stars
While this isn’t vintage Prodigy, it gets pretty damn close.
2nd November 2018
Tom Morello — The Atlas Underground
1 Stars
A lurid affair.
12th October 2018
You Me At Six — VI
4 Stars
It may not have the depth of some of their counterparts, but it easily makes up for it with refreshing, confident fun.
5th October 2018
Nakhane — You Will Not Die
4 Stars
A multi-faceted and fascinating introduction.
16th March 2018
Morrissey — Low In High School
2 Stars
This charming man? It looks like these days it’s more a case of bigmouth strikes again.
17th November 2017
William Patrick Corgan — Ogilala
4 Stars
Its simplicity has had a rejuvenating effect.
13th October 2017