Lorde - Green Light
The dark, introverted pop of debut album ‘Pure Heroine’ is given a neon-coloured facelift and sent into the night with heart-thumping urgency.
2nd March 2017
Reviews
White Kite - Curtain Call
‘Curtain Call’ is a perfect accompaniment to nervous evenings and battles of the mind.
28th February 2017
QTY - Dress/Undress
Keep on like this and QTY will have a shelf full of hits at their disposal.
28th February 2017
Todd Terje – Jungelknugen (Four Tet Remix)
Todd’s new single isn’t even out yet, but Four Tet has provided a pulsating taste of what we might be able to expect.
28th February 2017
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
4 Stars
A sharply-executed jumble of fuzz-wrapped postcards and remembered snapshots.
24th February 2017
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
4 Stars
Los Campesinos! will always be able to express a certain character type better than most.
24th February 2017
Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
4 Stars
A mechanical glitching puzzle of a record.
24th February 2017
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
4 Stars
Rich, imaginative, and more than a little strange.
24th February 2017
Dams of the West - Youngish American
3 Stars
Vivid lyrics, lush melodies and Americana influences.
24th February 2017
Summer Moon - With You Tonight
3 Stars
A record blessed with inspired guitar licks and sumptuous melodies.
24th February 2017
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
4 Stars
An urgent, hard-driving assault.
24th February 2017
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist
2 Stars
Far from the journey its designer hopes it to be.
24th February 2017
Tei Shi - How Far
Valerie Teicher’s debut will be worth every last second of impatient anticipation.
24th February 2017
Future - Selfish (ft. Rihanna)
The stand-out slow-burner on an album of shadowy, gloom-drenched rap.
24th February 2017
Lana Del Rey - Love
The new single seems to strike a particular chime with current events.
24th February 2017
Blaenavon - Alice Come Home
A crushing six-minute trip which shows the band as being equally capable of crafting devastating, sprawling journeys
24th February 2017
Girl Ray - Stupid Things
The track is as woozy and unwavered by potential consequences as those first all-encompassing days of an onsetting mega-crush.
24th February 2017
Arcade Fire - Creature Comfort
‘Creature Comfort’ doesn’t dial down the bonkers levels one jot.
23rd February 2017
Pale Waves - There’s A Honey
There’s nothing uncertain about where Pale Waves are heading.
21st February 2017
Estrons, The Crofters Rights, Bristol
Loud, fierce and dominant.
20th February 2017
VANT - Dumb Blood
4 Stars
On every single count, VANT have nailed it.
17th February 2017
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
4 Stars
Austerity, therapy, David Bowie’s brain and fried chicken.
17th February 2017
Shock Machine - Shock Machine
3 Stars
The shadow of his previous band looms heavy over the space age synths and shimmery pop hooks.
17th February 2017
Novella - Change of State
3 Stars
A deeply reflective album, both current and unmoored.
17th February 2017
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.