Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
4 Stars
One hell of a beast.
16th June 2017
Album Reviews
Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar
4 Stars
A surprisingly sweet listen.
16th June 2017
Kevin Morby - City Music
4 Stars
An enlightening, emboldening adventure.
16th June 2017
Ride - Weather Diaries
4 Stars
The band harness their greatest strengths as they aim to step outside their comfort zone.
16th June 2017
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
4 Stars
The Fleet Foxes we already know but on a much, much bigger scale.
16th June 2017
The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts
4 Stars
A tightly wound, intimate record.
16th June 2017
Phoenix – Ti Amo
4 Stars
It finds Phoenix in their most unabashedly romantic mood to date.
9th June 2017
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister - Planetarium
3 Stars
Its sheer scale can be as daunting as the vastness of what lies beyond the stratosphere.
9th June 2017
INVSN - The Beautiful Stories
4 Stars
Highly political, but more measured.
9th June 2017
London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
4 Stars
Hauntingly stark, yet staggeringly beautiful.
9th June 2017
All We Are - Sunny Hills
2 Stars
An album that isn’t sure what exactly it wants to be.
9th June 2017
Marika Hackman - I’m Not Your Man
5 Stars
Witty, sexy, confident, and charged with live energy.
2nd June 2017
Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
4 Stars
An album that perfectly contrasts light and dark.
2nd June 2017
alt-J - Relaxer
4 Stars
On album three they’re on even more singular form than ever.
2nd June 2017
Bleachers - Gone Now
4 Stars
An album that’s vibrant and full of life while still being wonderfully introspective.
2nd June 2017
Beach Fossils - Somersault
4 Stars
It raises the bar from the band’s previous output.
2nd June 2017
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
3 Stars
There are prolonged glimpses at the artist Dua Lipa could become.
2nd June 2017
Dan Auerbach - Waiting On A Song
3 Stars
A bright and breezy, folk-tinged affair.
2nd June 2017
TOPS - Sugar at the Gate
3 Stars
They’re happy to stay in the little niche that they’ve carved out.
2nd June 2017
Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
4 Stars
The band channel malaise, nonchalance, boredom and procrastination onto wax.
1st June 2017
Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination
3 Stars
Constantly engaging and occasionally stirring.
1st June 2017
LIFE - Popular Music
4 Stars
Not just a blast of blind rage.
26th May 2017
Paramore - After Laughter
5 Stars
An album that’s ultimately OK with not being OK, it’s for that reason alone that it may just be perfect.
22nd May 2017
Gothic Tropic - Fast Or Feast
4 Stars
Like Ladyhawke had she grown up on Tame Impala as much as the 80s kicks of Fleetwood Mac et al.
19th May 2017
Featuring Finn Wolfhard, FLO, Jungle, Mystery Jets and more.