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
Album Reviews
DMA’s - Hills End
2 Stars
With too many easily forgettable songs, they still have a way to go.
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
TEEN - Love Yes
4 Stars
‘Love Yes’ serves as the most iridescent article of TEEN’s discography.
19th February 2016
Ra Ra Riot - Need Your Light
2 Stars
‘Need Your Light’ represents another stumble in the New Yorkers’ career.
19th February 2016
Animal Collective - Painting With
4 Stars
An album about doing away with boundaries, escaping definition, and running riot.
19th February 2016
Jack Garratt - Phase
3 Stars
His USP is somewhat dimmed by hours and hours of carefully chosen layers, vocals and everything else in between.
19th February 2016
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
4 Stars
Wild Nothing take an unmistakable euphoria and drive it home.
19th February 2016
Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
4 Stars
Nothing is overstated or particularly complex, but it’s in the little flairs of trickery littered throughout each track that Mothers really come alive.
18th February 2016
Yuck - Stranger Things
4 Stars
There’s a gnashing bite to the London band these days.
18th February 2016
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
4 Stars
An attention to detail like no other.
17th February 2016
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
4 Stars
‘SVIIB’ may be the full stop on the band’s work together, but it’s an album that will stand as the perfect goodbye.
12th February 2016
So Pitted - neo
3 Stars
This is an offensive blitz into the unknown with occasional hints that So Pitted might be onto something.
12th February 2016
Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
3 Stars
‘Human Ceremony’ isn’t anywhere near fault-free, but its charm arrives when the trio get ahead of themselves.
5th February 2016
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
4 Stars
‘The Album Paranoia’ could so easily serve as the soundtrack to a trip through space-time.
5th February 2016
DIIV - Is The Is Are
4 Stars
On ‘Is The Is Are’, everything carries more meaning; he’s well and truly made his point here.
5th February 2016
Telegram - Operator
4 Stars
Other rock debuts this year may well prove more immediately accessible, but few are likely to be as thrillingly original.
5th February 2016
Porches - Pool
3 Stars
The promising beginnings of a musician who’s finally starting to find his feet.
5th February 2016
Field Music - commontime
2 Stars
In the end, this is an album with a whimsical construct that fails to live up to its musical promise.
5th February 2016
Cross Record - Wabi-Sabi
4 Stars
The brilliance of this Cross Record album, ‘Wabi-Sabi’, is in how perfect calm gets broken by a terrifying storm.
29th January 2016
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