Jay Som — Belong
4-5 Stars
More than worth the wait.
10th October 2025
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Lucky Number
Jessica Winter — My First Album
3-5 Stars
Jarring, unhinged and idiosyncratic.
9th July 2025
Sunflower Bean — Mortal Primetime
4-5 Stars
A record that only years of experience and an unshakable bond could produce.
23rd April 2025
Kills Birds - Crave
4 Stars
A welcome reminder of the power of thrashing guitars and guttural vocal roars to provide catharsis.
10th April 2025
Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky
3-5 Stars
A record of duality; here, yearning is part-and-parcel of purging and moving on.
2nd April 2025
Sunflower Bean — Shake
4 Stars
fFuriously delving deeper into the riff-laden rabbit hole they started down with 2019’s stellar ‘King of the Dudes’.
27th September 2024
Hinds — VIVA HINDS
4 Stars
The now-duo have opened an exciting new chapter.
4th September 2024
Charly Bliss — Forever
4 Stars
It balances the frivolity of youth with its turbulent realities.
14th August 2024
Walt Disco — The Warping
4-5 Stars
A testament to the glorious multifacetedness of existing beyond the binary.
12th June 2024
Samantha Urbani — Showing Up
4 Stars
Eschewing six-strings and the zeitgeist sounds like it’s been fun.
20th September 2023
Dream Wife — Social Lubrication
4-5 Stars
A record that’s both a progression, and that shows off wonderfully just what made them so exciting to begin with.
7th June 2023
HMLTD — The Worm
4 Stars
Astonishingly committed to its outlandish — basically ridiculous — ideals.
7th April 2023
Jessica Winter — Limerence
4-5 Stars
Musical Picasso – it’s vibrant, paradoxical, and all-in-all, exuberant and theatrical.
10th February 2023
Sunflower Bean — Headful Of Sugar
4-5 Stars
Ultimately an exercise in Sunflower Bean showing off that they can do just about everything well.
6th May 2022
Walt Disco — Unlearning
4 Stars
This anarchic debut teaches us to embrace uncertainty with open arms, and express ourselves however we see fit.
1st April 2022
Priestgate — Eyes Closed For The Winter
4 Stars
The outfit strut between intimate and aloof with a raffish sincerity that injects life into well-worn genre moves.
25th March 2022
Sleigh Bells — TEXIS
4 Stars
The best of both worlds.
8th September 2021
Bachelor — Doomin’ Sun
4-5 Stars
Each song pirouettes on the emotional chasm between intimate, physical union, and lonesome psychological vulnerability.
27th May 2021
Middle Kids — Today We’re The Greatest
2-5 Stars
A little bit middle-of-the-road.
18th March 2021
Dream Wife — So When You Gonna…
3 Stars
When it works, it’s magical. But too often on this second outing, it doesn’t.
2nd July 2020
Hinds — The Prettiest Curse
4 Stars
Packed with grooves, hooks and riffs.
4th June 2020
HMLTD — West of Eden
4 Stars
A cut above the rest, even if a little overdue.
6th February 2020
Jay Som — Anak Ko
4-5 Stars
Full of enough variety and adventure to make any generalisations moot.
23rd August 2019
Middle Kids — New Songs For Old Problems
3 Stars
Five new tracks to tide fans over whilst they continue to hit the road.
24th May 2019