4-5 Stars
flowerovlove - A Mosh Pit In The Clouds
With any justice, flowerovlove will continue rising towards commercial success.
5th December 2022
4-5 Stars Album & EP Reviews
4-5 Stars
Christine and the Queens - Redcar les adorables étoiles
As Redcar, Chris’ purpose on earth is for adoration, and it’s clear his heart is tender.
11th November 2022
4-5 Stars
Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth
A radiant voyage for Daniel Avery, and for everyone who dares join him for the experience.
4th November 2022
4-5 Stars
Tove Lo - Dirt Femme
Tove’s now able to flex her songwriting as she wishes. And it’s more than fruitful.
14th October 2022
4-5 Stars
The Big Moon - Here Is Everything
For a band who’ve always been about big, fuzzy feelings, it makes sense that the biggest feelings of all should suit them so well.
14th October 2022
4-5 Stars
FLOHIO - Out Of Heart
For a record born of fatigue and exhaustion, she imbues a renewing sense of urgency to each bar she delivers.
7th October 2022
4-5 Stars
Jean Dawson - CHAOS NOW*
“Fuck y’all looking at?” asks the intro. A superstar, is the answer.
7th October 2022
4-5 Stars
Crack Cloud - Tough Baby
Like watching a wound open, flowers growing out of it.
16th September 2022
4-5 Stars
Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
A record creaking and groaning under the weight of its ideas.
9th September 2022
4-5 Stars
Phoebe Green - Lucky Me
As bold as the personality that runs through it.
19th August 2022
4-5 Stars
Superorganism - World Wide Pop
Maximalist pop for the terminally online.
15th July 2022
4-5 Stars
Beabadoobee - Beatopia
The land of ‘Beatopia’ is a far better world for letting others in.
15th July 2022
4-5 Stars
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Haunting, heartbreaking and life-affirming.
3rd June 2022
4-5 Stars
Just Mustard - Heart Under
Swampy and tumultuous like a month’s worth of rain.
27th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster
If there’s any shred of justice in the world, this is going to be a future emo classic.
18th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
It might be riddled with hurt but its takeaway feels a lot like hope.
20th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Arcade Fire - WE
These songs have a real and sincere heart.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Sunflower Bean - Headful Of Sugar
Ultimately an exercise in Sunflower Bean showing off that they can do just about everything well.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Sharon Van Etten - We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Very much the most mature Sharon Van Etten offering to date - and perhaps the most musically accomplished, too.
6th May 2022
4-5 Stars
Rammstein - Zeit
About as Rammstein as they can get – unpredictable, eccentric and always brilliant.
29th April 2022
4-5 Stars
Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
One of the year’s most essential records yet.
22nd April 2022
4-5 Stars
Dama Scout - gen wo lai (come with me)
Everything that brilliant self-titled EP promised and more.
22nd April 2022
4-5 Stars
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
Ferociously heavy, wonderfully weird.
8th April 2022
4-5 Stars
Father John Misty - Chloë And The Next 20th Century
He’s transporting himself to a different world.
8th April 2022
4-5 Stars
Sundara Karma - Oblivion!
Fizzing hyperpop influences tie with skyward melodies to create a near-masterpiece.
1st April 2022
4-5 Stars
Jensen McRae - Are You Happy Now?
An artist even more exceptional at telling her own stories than caricaturing her peers’.
22nd March 2022
4-5 Stars
Charli XCX - CRASH
An album that cements her status as a true pop trailblazer.
18th March 2022
4-5 Stars
Jenny Hval - Classic Objects
The audible equivalent of a painting affixed with human hair.
11th March 2022