Reviews
August 2019
2nd August
Album Review
3 Stars
Mabel - High Expectations
Effortlessly cool.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Ty Segall - First Taste
An album steeped in killer rhythms.
9th August
Album Review
5 Stars
Bon Iver - i,i
An emotional tour-de-force that displays an unparalleled understanding of the power of music.
Album Review
3 Stars
Crushed Beaks - The Other Room
A thrilling and energetic, if unvaried, return from the garage rockers.
Album Review
3 Stars
Fionn Regan - Cala
There’s a sort of stately, rolling beauty to the pace of the album.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
Not so much Marika 3.0 as the Marika who was always there, but tougher, stronger and more triumphant than ever.
Album Review
3 Stars
The Regrettes - How Do You Love?
A listen that encapsulates that Polaroid summer we’re all after.
Album Review
3 Stars
Why? - AOKOHIO
Yoni drops his sometimes coy, sometimes inscrutable persona of the past in order to let us in on a period of anxious self-reflection.
16th August
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Friendly Fires - Inflorescent
Akin to gobbling an entire pack of Fruit Pastilles; colourful, maybe a little sickly, but you sure as hell want to experience it again.
Album Review
4 Stars
Press Club - Wasted Energy
It retains the sheer power of their stage presence.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
The highlights are worth the entry fee alone.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Shura - forevher
A confident second album that showcases why Shura should be on everyone’s radar.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
By far their most stylised, radio-friendly work to date.
Album Review
3 Stars
The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
Seven albums in, The Hold Steady are very much a band for their existing fans.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
There are a fair few legendary bands out there that were never quite as good as The Murder Capital are right now.
23rd August
Album Review
4-5 Stars
BROCKHAMPTON - GINGER
Their most mature and concise work to date.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Jay Som - Anak Ko
Full of enough variety and adventure to make any generalisations moot.
Album Review
4 Stars
Modern Nature - How To Live
A compelling piece of work.
Album Review
4 Stars
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
These are strange, strange times and here you have a band strange enough to capture that.
30th August
Album Review
3 Stars
!!! - Wallop
The most fun !!! have ever been.
Album Review
4 Stars
Beach Baby - Songs From The Limbo Lounge
Most of all, it’s just so much fun to listen to.
Album Review
4 Stars
Black Belt Eagle Scout - At The Party With My Brown Friends
Black Belt Eagle Scout finds both the tenderness in companionship and its fragility.
Album Review
3 Stars
Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes
Sometimes its rapid-fire pace makes you wish for that little bit more space.
Album Review
4 Stars
Kano - Hoodies All Summer
Kano holds the rhyme and reason to encapsulate our splintered society, and possesses the angst to make it hit home.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
It’s Lana Del Rey’s world, we’re just living in it.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Parsnip - When The Tree Bears Fruit
A honey-glazed debut of skewed nursery rhymes from the Aussie quartet.
Album Review
4 Stars
Shards - Find Sound
An experience you’re unlikely to forget.
Album Review
4 Stars
The Futureheads - Powers
‘Powers’ sees The Futureheads fight fiercely once again.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
The S.L.P. - The S.L.P.
‘The S.L.P.’ is a ride worth getting on.
Album Review
3 Stars
Whitney - Forever Turned Around
We’re not asking Whitney to soundtrack a raging rebellion, we just want them to make us feel things.
