Anna Calvi — Is This All There Is?
3-5 Stars
A short-and-sweet curio.
18th March 2026
Labels
Domino
Cat Power — Redux
4-5 Stars
An EP which suggests that ‘The Greatest’ tour should be unmissable.
21st January 2026
Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded
4 Stars
A further incantation of psych-pop goodness.
5th December 2025
Sorry — COSPLAY
4-5 Stars
‘COSPLAY’ lands as simultaneously their broadest and best album to date — unpredictable, unnerving and all-encompassing.
5th November 2025
Daniel Avery — Tremor
4-5 Stars
His most accessible and most idiosyncratic record to date.
31st October 2025
Sydney Minsky Sargeant — Lunga
3-5 Stars
The sound of a cocksure frontman letting his guard down and seeing where his vulnerability will take him.
10th September 2025
Wet Leg — moisturizer
4 Stars
A wonderfully crafted piece of work that cements the band’s staying power.
9th July 2025
Demise of Love — Demise of Love
4 Stars
Excitingly, there’s the sense that this first four-track salvo is a mere tune-up.
30th May 2025
These New Puritans — Crooked Wing
4 Stars
Filthy and heavenly, decaying and resplendent.
21st May 2025
SASAMI — Blood On The Silver Screen
4 Stars
This latest metamorphosis feels invigorating for both the genre, and the singer herself.
7th March 2025
Panda Bear — Sinister Grift
4 Stars
Presenting with a breezy, lived-in warmth.
26th February 2025
Franz Ferdinand — The Human Fear
4-5 Stars
A band still brimming with ambition.
8th January 2025
Hayden Thorpe — Ness
3 Stars
Not a record which can be easily divorced from its context.
27th September 2024
Fat Dog — WOOF.
5 Stars
Brilliant, dark, and downright batshit crazy.
4th September 2024
LA Priest — La Fusion
4 Stars
Still as warm, inviting and intoxicating as ever.
3rd May 2024
Real Estate — Daniel
3 Stars
There is plenty to like here — but there’s a sense of creative inertia that means it’s a difficult record to truly love.
21st February 2024
Bill Ryder-Jones — Iechyd Da
4 Stars
A truly cathartic listening experience.
10th January 2024
The Kills - God Games
5 Stars
‘God Games’, like its predecessors, has proved worth the wait.
25th October 2023
Animal Collective — Isn’t It Now
3 Stars
As their longest album to date, it’s hard to shift any accusations of self-indulgence.
27th September 2023
Georgia — Euphoric
4 Stars
Grand, inspiring and convincing — like summer love bottled up.
26th July 2023
Protomartyr — Formal Growth In The Desert
4 Stars
Their balancing act between decay and rebirth, love and hate, takes on an even sharper focus.
31st May 2023
LA Priest — Fase Luna
4-5 Stars
A transcendent display of a fragile soul.
3rd May 2023
Avey Tare — 7s
3 Stars
If only all boredom could be so productive.
17th February 2023
John Cale — MERCY
4-5 Stars
Another delicious example of an esteemed old-timer triumphantly pushing his creative frontiers into a much-shifted modern age.
20th January 2023