Phantogram - Voices
3 Stars
A fearless, hands-on approach to the rebirth of trip-hop through the eyes of two New Yorkers.
24th June 2014
Album Reviews
George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage
4 Stars
He could be singing his shopping list, and it would still sound charged with pure emotion.
24th June 2014
How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?
4 Stars
An artist who is more determined than ever.
19th June 2014
Eaux - Plastics
3 Stars
An album which blurs the line between retro and futuristic techno.
18th June 2014
Mastodon - Once More ‘Round The Sun
4 Stars
Despite becoming one of the biggest metal bands around, Mastodon manage to keep much of the same edge as an underground band.
17th June 2014
Lone - Reality Testing
4 Stars
It’s Cutler’s wild imaginations being given their own space.
13th June 2014
The Antlers - Familiars
4 Stars
Not only hauntingly beautiful, but more than rewards.
13th June 2014
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
4 Stars
She’s a Wes Anderson character that’s wound up in a David Lynch film, and she knows it.
13th June 2014
Cerebral Ballzy - Jaded & Faded
4 Stars
They’re dirtier, filthier, meaner, and more visceral and raw than ever before.
12th June 2014
White Lung - Deep Fantasy
4 Stars
White Lung’s snarliest and most bloodthirsty record to date.
12th June 2014
Lower - Seek Warmer Climes
3 Stars
A dizzying display of post-hardcore tinged no wave that scrunches up your senses and then obliterates them for good measure.
10th June 2014
Boris - Noise
4 Stars
A singularly intense and essential album.
9th June 2014
Jack White - Lazaretto
4 Stars
It shouldn’t be a Jack White record. And yet it couldn’t be anything but.
6th June 2014
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
4 Stars
Big-hearted songs that breeze straight past bummed out despondency.
6th June 2014
Clean Bandit - New Eyes
2 Stars
The band’s genre-splicing potential is lost on a largely tedious debut.
5th June 2014
Dub Thompson - 9 Songs
4 Stars
A record replete with droning psychedelia, an infectious energy and a sinister, carnivalesque feel.
5th June 2014
Tom Vek - Luck
3 Stars
More questions than answers, more problems than solutions.
5th June 2014
Glass Animals - ZABA
4 Stars
An often scintillating debut.
5th June 2014
Alexis Taylor - Await Barbarians
2 Stars
Little more than an indulgent side-project.
5th June 2014
The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits
2 Stars
A long way from their best work.
4th June 2014
Kasabian - 48:13
2 Stars
A little bit like if Jez and Super Hans from Peep Show got a record deal.
4th June 2014
Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
3 Stars
Goofily serious, but rarely ever with the intention of fun.
4th June 2014
clipping. - CLPPNG
4 Stars
The thing that makes ‘CLPPNG’ so appealing isn’t how it subverts norms; it’s how it embraces them.
3rd June 2014
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.