Reviews
September 2017
1st September
Album Review
4 Stars
Hercules & Love Affair - Omnion
It might not provide the answers to the world’s ills, but it delves into them with an honest readiness.
Album Review
4 Stars
INHEAVEN - INHEAVEN
Noisy, riotous, anthemic and bristling with excitement.
Album Review
4 Stars
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
This wasn’t ever going to be a bad album, was it?
Album Review
3 Stars
Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
Serene isn’t necessarily a word you would associate with this group of Scottish post-rock legends.
Album Review
3 Stars
Thumpers - Whipped & Glazed
A strange balance of optimism and pessimism.
8th September
Album Review
5 Stars
Alvvays - Antisocialites
Just as unique as that now-classic debut.
Album Review
4 Stars
Anna of the North - Lovers
A punchy album full of synth-pop tunes.
Album Review
4 Stars
Death From Above - Outrage! Is Now
The Toronto twosome have fully found their groove.
Album Review
3 Stars
Deerhoof - Mountain Moves
As usual, there’s probably a few too many ideas here and the band trip up on them occasionally.
Album Review
4 Stars
LA Witch - LA Witch
A convincing first stab.
Album Review
4 Stars
Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
Ultimately, ‘Love What Survives’ is defined by its tensions.
Album Review
3 Stars
Nick Mulvey - Wake Up Now
A record where poignancies lie in tales of close relationships.
Album Review
3 Stars
Rostam - Half-Light
Rostam is fast becoming a standalone figure.
Album Review
5 Stars
Superfood - Bambino
Thank god for second chances.
Album Review
4 Stars
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Putting an open marriage counselling session to tape and adding new textures to their now-signature sound, The National are as vital as ever.
Album Review
3 Stars
Zola Jesus - Okovi
A weighty thing that offers little respite.
15th September
Album Review
2 Stars
Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
Buffed-up and overly layered.
Album Review
3 Stars
Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly
Moments of genius gradually reveal themselves.
Album Review
3 Stars
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Choir of the Mind
An album that can be engaging and emotionally-charged.
Album Review
3 Stars
Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
More interesting than one might’ve expected.
Album Review
2 Stars
Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage
They’ve undercut their own power by playing it safe.
Album Review
5 Stars
Sløtface - Try Not To Freak Out
An absolute ripper of a first record.
22nd September
Album Review
3 Stars
Cold Specks - Fool’s Paradise
An intriguingly personal record.
Album Review
3 Stars
Cut Copy - Haiku from Zero
There’s an effervescent sparkle that runs through it.
Album Review
4 Stars
METZ - Strange Peace
More intense, more melodic, more brutal, more confident.
Album Review
4 Stars
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Her influences hang heavy over the record.
Album Review
3 Stars
The Bronx - V
Curiously subdued in places.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Horrors - V
This ‘V’ is for victorious.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
Still quintessentially The Killers.
29th September
Album Review
2 Stars
Hurts - Desire
It’s been done better elsewhere, and recently, too.
Album Review
4 Stars
Ibeyi - Ash
A sprawling, diverse record without so much as a dull moment.
Album Review
4 Stars
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
There isn’t a shade of black in the post-punk spectrum Protomartyr can’t execute with aplomb.
Album Review
4 Stars
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Always Foreign
Album title aside, the seven-piece have never looked more at home.
Album Review
4 Stars
Torres - Three Futures
It touches the heart and head with its examinations of love, lust and desire.
Album Review
4 Stars
Vessels - The Great Distraction
They finally feel at home, and it’s glorious to watch.
Album Review
5 Stars
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
A darker, bolder Wolf Alice.
