Reviews
October 2025
3rd October
Album Review
3 Stars
dodie - Not For Lack Of Trying
She’s still writing her way through uncertainty.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Good Neighbours - Blue Sky Mentality
More like a collection of their hits rather than an album with its own specific creative arc.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Rocket - R Is For Rocket
An unusually assured debut album.
Album Review
4 Stars
Snõõper - Worldwide
The same erratic intensity that many fell in love with two years ago.
Album review
3 Stars
Taylor Swift - The Life Of A Showgirl
A victim of its own preamble.
10th October
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Avery Tucker - Paw
See-sawing between intimate, often bleak sounding classic singer-songwriter fare, and earwormy emo.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Jay Som - Belong
More than worth the wait.
Album Review
4 Stars
Jerskin Fendrix - Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire
An album that bulldozes through irony in service of sincere, meaningful eccentricity.
Album Review
3-5 Stars
The Wytches - Talking Machine
A commendable addition to The Wytches’ canon.
17th October
Album Review
4 Stars
Ashnikko - Smoochies
An all-out tits-to-the-wall celebration of feminine sexuality.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Brògeal - Tuesday Paper Club
The album reaches full force when they lean furthest into their roots.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun
As brutally difficult as it is cathartic.
Album Review
4 Stars
Poliça - Dreams Go
The sound of a band bearing said emotional weight with great elegance, and perhaps even optimism.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Skullcrusher - And Your Song Is Like A Circle
An utterly evocative, disarming full-length that’ll haunt listeners long after its reached its conclusion.
Album Review
4 Stars
Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying
A vibrantly textured, shapeshifting, and inquisitively diverse return.
Album Review
5 Stars
The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre
Both thematically and sonically richer.
24th October
EP Review
3-5 Stars
CATTY - Bracing For Impact
Heartfelt and messy in a deeply endearing manner.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp
From hot young talent to true master storyteller.
Album Review
4 Stars
Hannah Jadagu - Describe
A compelling, colossally dynamic pop record.
Album Review
4 Stars
Home Counties - Humdrum
Sardonic swipes with a yet more precise rhythmic punch.
Album Review
4 Stars
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE
They’ve turned their (still-downward) gaze somehow at once inward and out.
Album Review
5 Stars
Lily Allen - West End Girl
Breathtaking and heartbreaking in so many different ways.
EP Review
3-5 Stars
Nell Mescal - The Closest We’ll Get
A beautiful EP that proves she’s more than ready for whatever her next step may be.
31st October
Album Review
3-5 Stars
Cat Burns - How To Be Human
A powerful songwriter with a bright future.
Album Review
4 Stars
Creeper - Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
It its meshing together of time and genre conventions, it’s a record which sounds as if it has somehow always existed.
Album Review
4-5 Stars
Daniel Avery - Tremor
His most accessible and most idiosyncratic record to date.
Album Review
4 Stars
Etta Marcus - Devour
Both intimate and untamed.
Album review
4-5 Stars
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
A resounding, cathartic exhalation.
Album Review
4 Stars
Luvcat - Vicious Delicious
Messy, theatrical and unapologetically strange.
EP Review
3-5 Stars
Orville Peck - Appaloosa
There’s always trickling hope beneath all the arid gravel.
Album Review
4 Stars
Snocaps - Snocaps
At once nostalgic and enchanting.
EP Review
4-5 Stars
The Orchestra (For Now) - Plan 76
Playful, theatrical, gigantic post-rock.
Album Review
4 Stars
Witch Fever - FEVEREATEN
Relentless in their pursuit of textural and sonic intricacies.
