Alex G - God Save The Animals
4 Stars
An album that encapsulates his weird and beautiful world.
Reviews
Sorcha Richardson - Smiling Like An Idiot
3-5 Stars
It takes as much from the healing powers of time and reflection as it does from the starry-eyed heat of the moment.
Courting - Guitar Music
4 Stars
A thematically poignant, lyrically sharp and sonically surprising statement piece.
Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl
5 Stars
An eclectic palette of bombastic, heart-on-sleeve euphoric pop and angsty dancefloor fillers.
Djo - DECIDE
4 Stars
It’s long been clear that the artist has the musical chops to match his acting prowess and here it’s no different.
Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes, Pixies and more enchant at End of the Road 2022
The Dorset festival finally welcomes long-booked international headliners, but young, hungry acts from Britain steal the show.
September 9, 2022 6:01pm
The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys bring the hits, while Megan Thee Stallion concludes 2022’s Hot Girl Summer at a blistering Reading Festival
Wolf Alice and Glass Animals make their cases for future headliner status across a wonderfully chaotic weekend of live music.
September 6, 2022 11:01am
Mura Masa - demon time
4 Stars
An undeniable rush to your systems, and a deliciously futuristic one at that.
Crack Cloud - Tough Baby
4-5 Stars
Like watching a wound open, flowers growing out of it.
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
4 Stars
A record that finds its voice in emerging into musical freedoms found in separation.
Starcrawler - She Said
3 Stars
As an album, ‘She Said’ is fine. Still, what’s rock‘n’roll about making music that doesn’t frequently get beyond fine?
Whitney - SPARK
3 Stars
A jarring change: not one from that familiar warmth to icy cold, but only halfway, a sort of uncomfortable mild chill.
Public Service Broadcasting attest to the importance of small venues as they mesmerise at London’s Peckham Audio
“If you don’t have these places to play, you’re just not going to get the same grade of talent that the UK has been lucky to have for the last several years,” says frontman J. Willgoose Esq.
August 25, 2022 6:20pm
Flow Festival makes a fantastic return to Helsinki
Gorillaz, Burna Boy and Fred again.. provide standout moments as the Finnish festival opens its gates once again.
August 19, 2022 12:17pm
Marcus Mumford - (self-titled)
3 Stars
‘(self-titled)’ is Vegemite: the same, but different.
Suede - Autofiction
4 Stars
‘Autofiction’ finds Suede still fiercely in motion.
Kynsy - Something To Do With Love
4 Stars
An amalgamation of the old and the new.
Oliver Sim - Hideous Bastard
5 Stars
Oliver takes on both past and present realities with a candour that surprises even him.
Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below
4 Stars
Sounds from Zamrock and kalindula woven seamlessly alongside those of contemporary Western hip hop and soul.
Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
4-5 Stars
A record creaking and groaning under the weight of its ideas.
Santigold - Spirituals
3-5 Stars
Not so much reigniting the spark that drew so many to her sound first time around, but a decent job of drawing a line from old to new and updating it.
Preoccupations - Arrangements
3-5 Stars
It takes a while for Preoccupations to find their new groove.
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
3-5 Stars
An unashamedly brash and confident record, but much more subtle and realistic.
Miya Folick - 2007
3-5 Stars
A solid collection of songs that wear their heart on their sleeve and capture the zeitgeist too.
Porij - Outlines
4 Stars
Sometimes it’s about baring your soul over a 130BPM kick-snare beat. Sometimes it’s just about making something with a real groove.
KEG - Girders
4 Stars
Tunes that are as catchy as they are direct.
Two Door Cinema Club - Keep On Smiling
3 Stars
Its wares pick up where its predecessor left off but without adding too much extra to the mix.
Muse - Will Of The People
2-5 Stars
A smorgasbord of dystopian-flavoured cringe.
Ezra Furman - All Of Us Flames
3 Stars
A little mixed.