Reviews
March 2015
2nd March
Album Review
3 Stars
Black Yaya - Black Yaya
An impressive debut.
Album Review
4 Stars
Clarence Clarity - No Now
‘No Now’ will polarise opinions: it’s loud, busy, sublime and uncompromising.
Album Review
4 Stars
Evans the Death - Expect Delays
A wholly relatable album for anyone a bit miserable, really.
Album Review
4 Stars
Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
Surely nothing in the world can stop him.
Album Review
3 Stars
Karin Park - Apocalypse Pop
Sinner, saint, even goth (if you must): Park tackles them all with grace.
Album Review
2 Stars
Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun
It’s hard to see what Moon Duo bring that hasn’t already been heard before.
Album Review
3 Stars
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
There’s no denying that Gallagher is a songwriter from the very top of his class.
Album Review
4 Stars
of Montreal - Aureate Gloom
It’s thirteenth time lucky with this Technicolor epic.
Album Review
3 Stars
Purity Ring - another eternity
It’s intriguing — if slightly disconcerting — to see Purity Ring in a warmer light.
Album Review
4 Stars
Vessels - Dilate
Vessels resist the twin urges to oversimplify or over-complicate.
9th March
Album Review
2 Stars
Cancer Bats - Searching For Zero
Somehow the pieces don’t quite appear to fit.
Album Review
3 Stars
Echo Lake - Era
Echo Lake have managed to take a slew of barely-original touch points and make something genuinely intriguing.
Album Review
3 Stars
Fyfe - Control
A divine celebration of ordinary heartaches.
Album Review
2 Stars
Laura Welsh - Soft Control
‘Soft Control’ disappoints in the fact that a clearly talented singer/songwriter seems strayed from the path.
Album Review
4 Stars
Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
An album of revelatory qualities.
Album Review
4 Stars
Will Butler - Policy
Every song has its own character, with each one further clarifying Will as a great musician and songwriter.
16th March
Album Review
3 Stars
Inventions – Maze Of Woods
‘Maze Of Woods’ pushes and pulls like all good post-rock.
Album Review
4 Stars
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Lamar’s work continues to place itself among the best.
Album Review
4 Stars
Marina and the Diamonds - FROOT
‘FROOT’ finds Marina at her most accomplished and intriguing.
Album Review
4 Stars
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
It’s an album only Modest Mouse could make.
Album Review
4 Stars
Nic Hessler - Soft Connections
An accomplished tale from a troubled artist.
Album Review
4 Stars
Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
A dramatic switch from those no-frills demos.
23rd March
Album Review
5 Stars
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Make no mistake — this is a debut like few others.
Album Review
4 Stars
Errors - Lease of Life
A record packed full of ambition and imagination.
Album Review
4 Stars
Laura Marling - Short Movie
‘Short Movie’ is wonderfully unlike anything Marling has ever attempted before.
Album Review
4 Stars
Mini Mansions - The Great Pretenders
Songs that grow more vivid with every listen.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Cribs - For All My Sisters
‘For All My Sisters’ feels like another step up.
Album Review
3 Stars
The Go! Team - The Scene Between
This is a record trying to bridge light and dark: and that’s its best and worst trait.
Album Review
3 Stars
The Staves - If I Was
‘If I Was’ sees the sisters continuing to make good music which suits their talents.
30th March
Album Review
4 Stars
Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi
Eight albums in – Death Cab For Cutie are born again; a little cracked, but all the more golden for it.
Album Review
4 Stars
Hannah Cohen - Pleasure Boy
‘Pleasure Boy’ is a record deserving of widespread acclaim.
Album Review
3 Stars
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
For listeners craving substance served side-by-side with flash, Lower Dens’ world is one worth exploring.
Album Review
3 Stars
Only Real - Jerk At The End Of The Line
Honesty does the trick on Only Real’s no-strings-attached debut.
Album Review
4 Stars
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
The Chicagoan has created such a relatable record by defining the struggle of identity through his experimental and broad songwriting.
Album Review
4 Stars
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
By going through it all, by exposing all the pain, Sufjan’s created something beautiful and vital.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
‘The Day Is My Enemy’ may be The Prodigy’s most visceral and incendiary record yet.
