Tops - Picture You Staring
4 Stars
It’s all a bit too good to be true.
30th August 2014
Album Reviews
The Rentals - Lost In Alphaville
3 Stars
Really bloody lost in direction — but with several soaring, special moments.
29th August 2014
Raury - Indigo Child
4 Stars
His first step into the great unknown, it marks Raury out as one of the most exciting new talents around.
29th August 2014
The Vines - Wicked Nature
3 Stars
While there is a flawless garage album hidden away in here somewhere, it’s buried within an unnecessarily long double album.
28th August 2014
Rustie - Green Language
3 Stars
A frustrating, yet undeniably fun listen.
28th August 2014
Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity
2 Stars
Too cold and distancing to be able to connect to.
28th August 2014
Pulled Apart By Horses - Blood
4 Stars
A dynamic album which shows a band used to screaming their lungs out also have the ability to deliver their sound in a different way.
27th August 2014
Indiana - No Romeo
4 Stars
A deeply atmospheric record, but a fickle one at that.
26th August 2014
Ty Segall - Manipulator
4 Stars
Something of a Ty Segall greatest hits, but with all new music.
23rd August 2014
Maybeshewill - Fair Youth
4 Stars
Maybeshewill have never sounded better.
22nd August 2014
Basement Jaxx - Junto
2 Stars
Only some parts equal the dizzy heights of their much younger contemporaries.
22nd August 2014
Mozart’s Sister - Being
3 Stars
Mixed, fidgety, but rewarding.
21st August 2014
Merchandise - After The End
4 Stars
If the rhetoric around this record was about severe change, this is the rabbit in the hat, the proof that they don’t just talk the talk.
21st August 2014
The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader
4 Stars
Far more accomplished than a debut should be.
20th August 2014
Dry The River - Alarms in the Heart
4 Stars
An album that rarely dips below being immensely enjoyable.
20th August 2014
J Mascis - Tied to a Star
3 Stars
A release for the hardcore fans.
19th August 2014
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose
4 Stars
Their most accessible and celebratory record to date.
19th August 2014
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
4 Stars
When it comes to noise they’re surfing a soundwave straight out of the hellmouth.
18th August 2014
Luke Sital-Singh - The Fire Inside
2 Stars
If he’s trying to say something significant, it’s all rather swamped by faux-poetics.
15th August 2014
JJ - V
3 Stars
A consistently strong listen, albeit a somewhat uneventful one.
15th August 2014
Celebration - Albumin
2 Stars
An album which appears to lack the punch and creativity needed to be anything more than second rate.
14th August 2014
Electric Würms - Musik, Die Schwer zu Twerk
3 Stars
Their six meticulously constructed psychedelic soundscapes that drag you along on their intoxicating journey are, more than anything, relentless.
13th August 2014
Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
4 Stars
He pays homage to the greats rather than replicate them.
13th August 2014
DZ Deathrays - Black Rat
4 Stars
Near 40 minutes of slow and sweaty seduction executed exquisitely by weeping guitar.
12th August 2014
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.