The Xcerts - Hold On To Your Heart
4 Stars
Another bold and brilliant album which soars higher than ever before.
19th January 2018
Album Reviews
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
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
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
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
Liima - 1982
4 Stars
Like playing an 8‑bit video game on a 2017 console.
3rd November 2017
Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love
3 Stars
His own personal ode to the land.
3rd November 2017
Autobahn - The Moral Crossing
3 Stars
An evolution for the Leeds five-piece.
3rd November 2017
Converge - The Dusk in Us
3 Stars
There’s a vitality here that reminds us that Converge are exactly the sort of band we can hardly afford to do without.
3rd November 2017
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.