Formation - Pleasure
The anti-apathy anthem they’ve threatened to make for years.
21st April 2016
Reviews
Deerhoof - Debut
Click a finger and out steps a song.
20th April 2016
Mutual Benefit - Lost Dreamers
The most clear and streamlined Mutual Benefit song to date.
20th April 2016
Hudson Scott - Gone
Gunning straight for the heart, it’s Scott’s most immediate offering to date.
18th April 2016
The Kills - Heart of a Dog
Dangerous, fuzzed-up, and on the edge of obliteration, this is Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince at their best.
18th April 2016
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
4 Stars
In ‘Crab Day’, her tilted ear for expression continues to rule the roost, with her compositions only growing more dissonant.
15th April 2016
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - PersonA
3 Stars
In its own terms, ‘PersonA’ is largely an impressive album but there’s still some way to go yet.
15th April 2016
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
3 Stars
There’s a crispness to ‘Singing Saw’ that must be similar to the air after rain in Mount Washington.
15th April 2016
Suuns - Hold/Still
3 Stars
It’s an album that boasts all the tools, from impenetrable denseness to intimidating stillness.
15th April 2016
Fear Of Men - Trauma
Catchy and unsettling in equal measure.
15th April 2016
James Blake - Timeless
A collision of two worlds — past and present.
15th April 2016
Gillbanks - ‘Childhood’
London trio deliver their clearest cut yet.
15th April 2016
AlunaGeorge - I Remember (ft. Flume)
Hungering after that first spark, this is heart racing pop gold.
15th April 2016
DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak (ft. Run the Jewels)
El‑P and Killer Mike’s violence might be comic, but they’re digging at a true American reality.
15th April 2016
Animal Collective push their luck with obscure London return
A dedicated crowd is theirs for the taking. The thing is, Animal Collective don’t give a great deal back.
13th April 2016
Yung - Uncombed Hair
Carefully unkempt, and meticulously messy in all the right places.
13th April 2016
Adult Jazz - Eggshell
The enigmatic next step of a band that continue to refuse to be defined.
12th April 2016
GIRLI - Girls Get Angry Too
With so much bullshit to be angry about in the world right now, who’s got time for cool, calm and collected, anyway?
12th April 2016
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
3 Stars
This isn’t the best or the bravest music of her career, but Harvey continues to pave new ground.
11th April 2016
Teleman - Brilliant Sanity
4 Stars
Loaded with more jingles than a sleigh at Christmas, ‘Brilliant Sanity’ is synth pop at its most intentionally addictive.
8th April 2016
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
3 Stars
Hecker has once again shaped something that feels weighty and important, shafts of light illuminating the dark landscape.
8th April 2016
Future of the Left - the peace & truce of future of the left
4 Stars
This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on.
8th April 2016
M83 - Junk
2 Stars
What ‘Junk’ lacks alongside its bonkers, anything-goes mentality is any real purpose.
8th April 2016
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
3 Stars
This album may declare itself a painting, but there’s a much bigger picture to see here.
7th April 2016
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