Django Django - Marble Skies
4 Stars
An album calculated to get you from the bar to the dance floor in record time.
26th January 2018
Album Reviews
Nils Frahm - All Melody
4 Stars
Once his melodies spin, there’s really no stopping them.
26th January 2018
Nick J. D. Hodgson - Tell Your Friends
3 Stars
Classic and nuanced, he’s a topline writer of clout.
26th January 2018
Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
3 Stars
Identity firmly cemented, now Ty’s just having fun within it.
26th January 2018
The Xcerts - Hold On To Your Heart
4 Stars
Another bold and brilliant album which soars higher than ever before.
19th January 2018
Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
4 Stars
It was always going to be an interesting ride.
19th January 2018
First Aid Kit - Ruins
4 Stars
A band on the move.
19th January 2018
Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life
4 Stars
Their most accessible, danceable and thought-provoking album to date.
19th January 2018
Shopping - The Official Body
3 Stars
The band’s ability to move minds and hips with equal success is still abundantly clear.
19th January 2018
The Go! Team - Semicircle
3 Stars
Another upbeat, buoyant addition to their canon.
19th January 2018
Porches - The House
3 Stars
When ‘The House’ hits the spot, it presents an artist capable of wonderful things.
19th January 2018
Starcrawler - Starcrawler
3 Stars
A hedonistic dream on paper who don’t quite match it on record.
19th January 2018
Shame - Songs Of Praise
5 Stars
A vicious, sarcastic barrage, Shame’s outstanding debut makes their claim to be Britain’s best new band.
11th January 2018
N.E.R.D - No_One Ever Really Dies
2 Stars
Not nearly as profound as it thinks it is.
15th December 2017
QTY - QTY
4 Stars
A record that’s labyrinthine in its intricacies.
8th December 2017
Björk - Utopia
3 Stars
While there’s nearly always a sense of beauty embedded within ‘Utopia’ though, there’s also a feeling of harshness.
24th November 2017
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?
3 Stars
You can’t fault Noel for wanting to step away from the niche of his own making, but it doesn’t make this any less of a baffling ride.
24th November 2017
Tove Lo - Blue Lips
4 Stars
Which other pop star would sing about having hard nipples and puppet fornication?
17th November 2017
Morrissey - Low In High School
2 Stars
This charming man? It looks like these days it’s more a case of bigmouth strikes again.
17th November 2017
Baths - Romaplasm
4 Stars
Still brutally human, and all the better for it.
17th November 2017
OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head
4 Stars
A venture into the unexpected.
17th November 2017
Spinning Coin - Permo
4 Stars
There’s definitely a certain amount of looking back.
10th November 2017
Yung Lean - Stranger
3 Stars
He continues to push boundaries.
10th November 2017
Shamir - Revelations
4 Stars
A revelation in all senses of the word.
3rd November 2017
Featuring Finn Wolfhard, FLO, Jungle, Mystery Jets and more.