Beach Baby - Songs From The Limbo Lounge
4 Stars
Most of all, it’s just so much fun to listen to.
30th August 2019
Album Reviews
The S.L.P. - The S.L.P.
3-5 Stars
‘The S.L.P.’ is a ride worth getting on.
30th August 2019
Whitney - Forever Turned Around
3 Stars
We’re not asking Whitney to soundtrack a raging rebellion, we just want them to make us feel things.
30th August 2019
Parsnip - When The Tree Bears Fruit
3-5 Stars
A honey-glazed debut of skewed nursery rhymes from the Aussie quartet.
30th August 2019
Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes
3 Stars
Sometimes its rapid-fire pace makes you wish for that little bit more space.
30th August 2019
!!! - Wallop
3 Stars
The most fun !!! have ever been.
30th August 2019
BROCKHAMPTON - GINGER
4-5 Stars
Their most mature and concise work to date.
26th August 2019
Jay Som - Anak Ko
4-5 Stars
Full of enough variety and adventure to make any generalisations moot.
23rd August 2019
Modern Nature - How To Live
4 Stars
A compelling piece of work.
23rd August 2019
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
4 Stars
These are strange, strange times and here you have a band strange enough to capture that.
23rd August 2019
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold
4-5 Stars
By far their most stylised, radio-friendly work to date.
16th August 2019
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
4-5 Stars
There are a fair few legendary bands out there that were never quite as good as The Murder Capital are right now.
16th August 2019
Press Club - Wasted Energy
4 Stars
It retains the sheer power of their stage presence.
16th August 2019
Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place
3-5 Stars
The highlights are worth the entry fee alone.
16th August 2019
Shura - forevher
3-5 Stars
A confident second album that showcases why Shura should be on everyone’s radar.
16th August 2019
Friendly Fires - Inflorescent
3-5 Stars
Akin to gobbling an entire pack of Fruit Pastilles; colourful, maybe a little sickly, but you sure as hell want to experience it again.
16th August 2019
The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thru The Passion
3 Stars
Seven albums in, The Hold Steady are very much a band for their existing fans.
16th August 2019
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
4-5 Stars
Not so much Marika 3.0 as the Marika who was always there, but tougher, stronger and more triumphant than ever.
9th August 2019
Crushed Beaks - The Other Room
3 Stars
A thrilling and energetic, if unvaried, return from the garage rockers.
9th August 2019
Fionn Regan - Cala
3 Stars
There’s a sort of stately, rolling beauty to the pace of the album.
9th August 2019
Why? - AOKOHIO
3 Stars
Yoni drops his sometimes coy, sometimes inscrutable persona of the past in order to let us in on a period of anxious self-reflection.
9th August 2019
The Regrettes - How Do You Love?
3 Stars
A listen that encapsulates that Polaroid summer we’re all after.
9th August 2019
Bon Iver - i,i
5 Stars
An emotional tour-de-force that displays an unparalleled understanding of the power of music.
8th August 2019
Ty Segall - First Taste
3-5 Stars
An album steeped in killer rhythms.
2nd August 2019
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.