Heck - Instructions
3 Stars
A record that’s captured them exactly as they are at this moment in time.
11th March 2016
Album Reviews
Lucius - Good Grief
3 Stars
‘Good Grief’ marks an important next step in the realisation of their sassy pop character.
11th March 2016
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
3 Stars
When the album hits, it does so with an infectious force.
11th March 2016
Alessia Cara - Know It All
4 Stars
‘Know It All’ isn’t perfect, but it’d be a challenge not to fall for even just some its charms.
11th March 2016
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
4 Stars
There’s much treasure to be found in Lamar’s trash.
8th March 2016
Tonight Alive - Limitless
3 Stars
There’s no doubting that Tonight Alive are being brave with their attempts on this record.
4th March 2016
Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
4 Stars
While Muncie Girls might tread relatively familiar musical territory on, it’s Hekt’s acerbic, no-frills lyricism that shines brightest.
4th March 2016
La Sera - Music for Listening to Music to
3 Stars
For an overwhelming portion of this Ryan Adams-produced record, La Sera just sound a bit too polite.
4th March 2016
Palehound - Dry Food
3 Stars
‘Dry Food’ is a rollercoaster portrayal of emotion as real as it comes.
4th March 2016
Big Ups - Before a Million Universes
3 Stars
Thirteen tracks that take a bubbling disenchantment and rarely fail to boil over into all-out visceral aggression.
4th March 2016
Anna Meredith - Varmints
4 Stars
Vibrant and kaleidoscopic in a way few musicians could ever muster.
4th March 2016
Miike Snow - III
3 Stars
‘III’ harbours a cohesion that serves as a testament to the chemistry of Miike Snow.
4th March 2016
Poliça - United Crushers
4 Stars
Poliça have finally drawn straws and found something to stick with.
3rd March 2016
Låpsley - Long Way Home
4 Stars
She’s always had the potential to pen giant numbers with no strings attached.
3rd March 2016
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
3 Stars
As impressively considered as the group are, they evoke a cold feeling of invulnerability that’s hard to avoid.
26th February 2016
Holy Esque – At Hope’s Ravine
4 Stars
An album not just ambitious in its composition but thematically as well, ‘At Hope’s Ravine’ is both opulent and sparse.
26th February 2016
Meilyr Jones - 2013
3 Stars
Each time of listening, there’s a new element you never saw in it before.
26th February 2016
DMA’s - Hills End
2 Stars
With too many easily forgettable songs, they still have a way to go.
26th February 2016
Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine
4 Stars
At face value, this is joyously immediate pop music. Dig a little deeper, and there’s endless facets.
26th February 2016
Quilt - Plaza
4 Stars
An album that encompasses their intriguing convictions for different genres.
26th February 2016
Santigold - 99 cents
4 Stars
Though the price tag here may be ‘99¢,’ she’s never sounded freer.
26th February 2016
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
3 Stars
A perfect mix of the spectacular and calamitous.
25th February 2016
Foxes - All I Need
4 Stars
It’s clear she’s truly found her voice.
23rd February 2016
Wolfmother - Victorious
2 Stars
Like its canine cousin, this wolf has a little bark left — but no real bite.
19th February 2016
Featuring Finn Wolfhard, FLO, Jungle, Mystery Jets and more.