Reviews
June 2017
2nd June
Album Review
4 Stars
alt-J - Relaxer
On album three they’re on even more singular form than ever.
Album Review
4 Stars
Beach Fossils - Somersault
It raises the bar from the band’s previous output.
Album Review
4 Stars
Bleachers - Gone Now
An album that’s vibrant and full of life while still being wonderfully introspective.
Album Review
4 Stars
Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
The band channel malaise, nonchalance, boredom and procrastination onto wax.
Album Review
3 Stars
Dan Auerbach - Waiting On A Song
A bright and breezy, folk-tinged affair.
Album Review
3 Stars
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
There are prolonged glimpses at the artist Dua Lipa could become.
Album Review
5 Stars
Marika Hackman - I’m Not Your Man
Witty, sexy, confident, and charged with live energy.
Album Review
4 Stars
Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
An album that perfectly contrasts light and dark.
Album Review
3 Stars
Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination
Constantly engaging and occasionally stirring.
Album Review
3 Stars
TOPS - Sugar at the Gate
They’re happy to stay in the little niche that they’ve carved out.
9th June
Album Review
2 Stars
All We Are - Sunny Hills
An album that isn’t sure what exactly it wants to be.
Album Review
4 Stars
INVSN - The Beautiful Stories
Highly political, but more measured.
Album Review
4 Stars
London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
Hauntingly stark, yet staggeringly beautiful.
4 Stars
Phoenix – Ti Amo
It finds Phoenix in their most unabashedly romantic mood to date.
Album Review
3 Stars
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister - Planetarium
Its sheer scale can be as daunting as the vastness of what lies beyond the stratosphere.
16th June
Album Review
4 Stars
Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar
A surprisingly sweet listen.
Album Review
4 Stars
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
The Fleet Foxes we already know but on a much, much bigger scale.
Album Review
4 Stars
Kevin Morby - City Music
An enlightening, emboldening adventure.
Album Review
5 Stars
Lorde - Melodrama
It takes the downs as cleverly and emotionally as the ups.
Album Review
4 Stars
Ride - Weather Diaries
The band harness their greatest strengths as they aim to step outside their comfort zone.
Album Review
4 Stars
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
One hell of a beast.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts
A tightly wound, intimate record.
23rd June
Album Review
4 Stars
Algiers - The Underside Of Power
An album full of anger, injustice and despair.
Album Review
4 Stars
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
An ambitious effort that tells the tale of death and destruction and growth and rebirth.
Album Review
2 Stars
VÉRITÉ - Somewhere In Between
A moderately decent, if slightly been-done-before collection of songs, or a bit of a predictable letdown?
Album Review
4 Stars
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
An incredible State of the Union address on rap today.
30th June
Album Review
3 Stars
Baio – Man of the World
Often, it’s an insightful and engaging look into what it feels like to be of everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.
Album Review
4 Stars
Ratboys - GN
Inventive, rough-edged, and darkly witty at times, their second record is thoughtful, tender, and incisive at every turn.
Album Review
4 Stars
Wesley Gonzalez - Excellent Musician
A gloriously singular solo debut from an artist whose personality shines through at every opportunity.
