Lucy Dacus — 2019
3 Stars
A release that is there to keep the wheels turning ahead of a new album.
7th November 2019
Labels
Matador
Desert Sessions — Vols. 11 & 12
4-5 Stars
Music’s coolest summer camp.
25th October 2019
Kim Gordon — No Home Record
3-5 Stars
Like with the best moments of her career, she is uncompromising in her artistic vision.
10th October 2019
Steve Gunn — The Unseen In Between
3 Stars
He’s opted to take it easy this time around.
15th January 2019
boygenius — boygenius
4 Stars
More than the sum of its parts.
8th November 2018
Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
3 Stars
Maybe, just maybe, some mistakes are worth it.
12th October 2018
Interpol — Maruader
4 Stars
A return to form that sees the trio overcome their mid-career slump.
24th August 2018
Body / Head — The Switch
3 Stars
A thoroughly impressionistic affair.
13th July 2018
Snail Mail — Lush
4 Stars
It’s the crunchy, full band material that really points the way forward.
8th June 2018
Iceage — Beyondless
4 Stars
Beautiful, emotional, and cinematic.
4th May 2018
Yo La Tengo - There’s A Riot Going On
3 Stars
Quietly overwhelming.
16th March 2018
Lucy Dacus — Historian
4 Stars
She strengthens her already taut grip on rustling, soul-blemished rock.
2nd March 2018
Julien Baker — Turn Out The Lights
4 Stars
A crushingly sad album.
27th October 2017
Queens of the Stone Age — Villains
5 Stars
The Californian filthmongers’ most danceable offering yet – and all the better for it.
25th August 2017
Algiers — The Underside Of Power
4 Stars
An album full of anger, injustice and despair.
23rd June 2017
Perfume Genius — No Shape
5 Stars
A masterclass in kitschy indulgence and raw honesty alike.
4th May 2017
Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
4 Stars
Will Toledo’s latest is enigmatic, a little deceptive in places, and thoroughly gripping throughout.
19th May 2016
HÆLOS — Full Circle
3 Stars
A nightcrawling, adventurous beast only faulted by its tendency to play the same hand.
17th March 2016
Savages — Adore Life
4 Stars
Placing love on the surgeon’s table, and dissecting it, they’re every bit as mindbogglingly ambitious.
20th January 2016
Algiers — Algiers
3 Stars
Algiers haven’t found themselves a niche; they’ve dug out a trench and settled in for war.
29th May 2015
Belle & Sebastian — Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
3 Stars
Daring, but as a record it lacks a coherent identity.
14th January 2015
Thurston Moore — The Best Day
2 Stars
To anybody even remotely familiar with anything else Moore has put his mind to in the past, this is just too safe and clean-cut.
16th October 2014
Iceage — Plowing Into The Field Of Love
4 Stars
A country and western album that Nick Cave would cook up if he were possessed by Ian Curtis’ ghost.
30th September 2014
Lower — Seek Warmer Climes
3 Stars
A dizzying display of post-hardcore tinged no wave that scrunches up your senses and then obliterates them for good measure.
10th June 2014