Julianna Barwick - Will
3 Stars
Despite experimenting, Barwick never loses sight of a pop sensibility.
6th May 2016
Album Reviews
LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
3 Stars
Despite complexities, the heart of LUH’s debut is touchingly simple — two people standing up against the world.
6th May 2016
Chris Cohen - As If Apart
3 Stars
The Los Angeles musician devotes takes every bit of his inspiration from the sun in the sky.
6th May 2016
Kaytranada - 99.9%
3 Stars
The Canadian producer stamps his trademark on skittering, inventive electronics.
6th May 2016
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
3 Stars
Tackling politics in music is like approaching a trap door, but ANOHNI brings a different skill.
6th May 2016
Ry X - Dawn
4 Stars
‘Dawn’ is the debut Ry Cuming can truly treasure.
6th May 2016
White Lung - Paradise
4 Stars
This is a beautiful vision of 22nd Century punk.
5th May 2016
Drake - Views
3 Stars
A showcase of Drake as so much more than just a dancefloor filling meme machine.
3rd May 2016
Brian Eno - The Ship
3 Stars
Musically the album sees Eno creating a sound that’s frequently panoramic and dislocating.
29th April 2016
Beyoncé - Lemonade
4 Stars
Far from just being an oh-no-he-didn’t tour de force, ‘Lemonade’ matches context with real substance.
27th April 2016
Katy B - Honey
3 Stars
The Londoner’s collaborative hotch-potch of underground talents doesn’t lend itself to consistency.
22nd April 2016
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
3 Stars
The grind of day-to-day life is drowned out in a synthesis of reflection on the Michigan group’s latest.
22nd April 2016
SALES - SALES
4 Stars
SALES have a gift for appearing both shy and direct.
21st April 2016
Suuns - Hold/Still
3 Stars
It’s an album that boasts all the tools, from impenetrable denseness to intimidating stillness.
15th April 2016
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
3 Stars
There’s a crispness to ‘Singing Saw’ that must be similar to the air after rain in Mount Washington.
15th April 2016
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - PersonA
3 Stars
In its own terms, ‘PersonA’ is largely an impressive album but there’s still some way to go yet.
15th April 2016
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
4 Stars
In ‘Crab Day’, her tilted ear for expression continues to rule the roost, with her compositions only growing more dissonant.
15th April 2016
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
3 Stars
This isn’t the best or the bravest music of her career, but Harvey continues to pave new ground.
11th April 2016
Future of the Left - the peace & truce of future of the left
4 Stars
This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on.
8th April 2016
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
3 Stars
Hecker has once again shaped something that feels weighty and important, shafts of light illuminating the dark landscape.
8th April 2016
Teleman - Brilliant Sanity
4 Stars
Loaded with more jingles than a sleigh at Christmas, ‘Brilliant Sanity’ is synth pop at its most intentionally addictive.
8th April 2016
M83 - Junk
2 Stars
What ‘Junk’ lacks alongside its bonkers, anything-goes mentality is any real purpose.
8th April 2016
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
3 Stars
This album may declare itself a painting, but there’s a much bigger picture to see here.
7th April 2016
Deftones - Gore
4 Stars
Balancing their sound on a knife edge, this is an album that sees their own heaviness redefined.
5th April 2016
Featuring Finn Wolfhard, FLO, Jungle, Mystery Jets and more.