4-5 Stars
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Haunting, heartbreaking and life-affirming.
3rd June 2022
4-5 Stars Album & EP Reviews
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
4-5 Stars
Kojey Radical - Reason To Smile
Not just an album, but a beaming victory lap.
4th March 2022
4-5 Stars
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
A group undoubtedly at the peak of their powers.
11th February 2022
4-5 Stars
Mitski - Laurel Hell
You can’t help but feel that it’s all one broken brick away from tumbling down, which is exactly why it plays out with such delicate urgency.
4th February 2022
4-5 Stars
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
Another truly original triumph.
4th February 2022
4-5 Stars
Willow Kayne - Playground Antics
She can rap, she can sing, she can do lip-curling bad bitch and cheeky, playful pop star - and holy hell, can she write a tune.
1st February 2022
4-5 Stars
Adele - 30
‘Did Adele just do that?’ you might ask on first listen. Yeah, she did. But she didn’t have to.
19th November 2021
4-5 Stars
Boston Manor - Desperate Times Desperate Pleasures
Boston Manor’s most assertive release yet.
29th October 2021
4-5 Stars
Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After
Eleven tracks that brilliantly capture the turbulence and dysfunction of the past eighteen months.
22nd October 2021
4-5 Stars
James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart
A record that simultaneously expands on his delicate production and sees him fully embrace his singer-songwriter alter ego.
8th October 2021
4-5 Stars
Metronomy - Posse EP Volume 1
18 minutes of taut, considered songwriting.
15th September 2021
4-5 Stars
Porij - Baby Face
‘Baby Face’ it might be, but Porij aren’t playing around.
17th September 2021
4-5 Stars
Dave - We’re All Alone In This Together
At the rate he’s working at, watching him fill out the chapters to come is going to be a gift that keeps on giving.
23rd July 2021