Reviews
July 2019
5th July
Album Reviews
4 Stars
Jesca Hoop - Stonechild
An exercise in top-level songwriting, stately and intelligent.
Album Review
4 Stars
KOKOKO! - Fongola
Endlessly creative and euphoric.
12th July
Album Review
3 Stars
Africa Express - EGOLI
A trip on the Africa Express is quite a ride.
Album Review
2 Stars
Banks - III
Banks-by-numbers.
Album Review
3 Stars
Bleached - Don't You Think You've Had Enough?
Doses of nostalgia all over the shop.
Review
4 Stars
Blood Orange - Angel's Pulse
It proves that sticking around in older ground for a little longer can still bear some sweet fruit.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Dope Lemon - Smooth Big Cat
An enveloping, blissed-out jam of a listen.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Gauche - A People’s History Of Gauche
Gauche take no issue with exposing some of the less desirable features of modern life.
Album Review
3 Stars
Palace - Life After
There’s light and darkness in the mix, but the balance feels tenuous.
4 Stars
Penelope Isles - Until The Tide Creeps In
A record totally out of step with any modern music scene, and all the more timeless and special for it.
19th July
Album Review
4 Stars
IDER - Emotional Education
A thoughtful, carefully-constructed synthpop odyssey.
EP Review
4-5 Stars
Slaves - The Velvet Ditch
A succinct demonstration of Slaves’ here and now.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Flaming Lips - King’s Mouth
Not a step misplaced.
26th July
EP Review
3-5 Stars
Dead Nature - Taking My Shadow
For the most part it sounds, well, very much like his old band.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Dude York - Falling
Big guitar-pop at fizzing pace is again order of the day.
Album Review
2 Stars
Kaiser Chiefs - Duck
To bemoan their seventh LP for the confused stinker that it is is not an easy pop, but a real lament for a band that used to be so much more.
Album Review
2 Stars
Mini Mansions - Guy Walks Into A Bar...
A little more humour on Mini Mansions’ third, and they might’ve been able to pull it off.
Album Review
2-5 Stars
Of Monsters and Men - Fever Dream
A bit limp.
