Massive Attack hypnotise at BST Hyde Park headline
Tonight the acts here attempt to unite people, even for a moment.
7th April 2016
Reviews
The 1975 and Bastille weather storms to close Open’er 2016
It’s storms ahoy as Chvrches, Grimes and Pharrell also take to the event’s stages.
7th April 2016
Deftones - Gore
4 Stars
Balancing their sound on a knife edge, this is an album that sees their own heaviness redefined.
5th April 2016
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
4 Stars
A tightrope walk between impulse and laser-point precision.
4th April 2016
Chvrches prove themselves arena titans at home town SSE Hydro headline
Tonight the trio truly hit home… several thousand times over.
4th April 2016
Anna Meredith, ICA, London
She’s charming in her lack of pretence, and it’s that warmth that somehow lends ‘Varmints’ yet another guise.
4th April 2016
Bleached - Welcome The Worms
3 Stars
All too often ‘Welcome The Worms’ lacks the bite that’d make it Very Good Indeed.
1st April 2016
Pet Shop Boys - Super
4 Stars
Frequent, frantic builds and drops, whooshes and exultant crescendos abound throughout.
1st April 2016
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
4 Stars
Laying everything on the line, Frankie Cosmos scrutinise every ounce of who they are and what they know.
1st April 2016
Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
4 Stars
‘Silent Earthling’ is far from an reinvention: it’s simply Three Trapped Tigers adapting and tinkering.
1st April 2016
Mogwai - Atomic
4 Stars
The biggest achievement of ‘Atomic’ is that it can stand on its own musical merit.
1st April 2016
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
3 Stars
This is the strongest Bird has sounded in some time, but it’s not quite a monumental breakthrough.
1st April 2016
Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
4 Stars
A brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird.
31st March 2016
Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
2 Stars
Explosions hit autopilot when they enter uncharted airspace
31st March 2016
Pumarosa - Cecile
‘Cecile’ is a yelping net of big ideas — and it’s impossible not to get caught up.
31st March 2016
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You’ve Come To Expect
2 Stars
The classical instrumentation isn’t the only relic of the past clinging onto The Last Shadow Puppets.
30th March 2016
Teen Suicide - It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot
3 Stars
The Maryland clan haven’t left any path untrodden in their tenure as Teen Suicide.
29th March 2016
Weezer - Weezer (The White Album)
4 Stars
This is no pastiche of so-called ‘classic’ Weezer.
29th March 2016
Wolf Alice cement their place at the top with a triumphant Forum residency
Anyone who tells you Wolf Alice couldn’t have sold out a venue five times this size this weekend is only kidding themselves.
29th March 2016
The Big Moon - Cupid
The band’s alternative brand of romance sees them at their finest yet.
29th March 2016
Black Honey - All My Pride
Another scene in Black Honey’s perfect movie.
29th March 2016
LUH - Beneath the Concrete
At their best, LUH submerge melody in so much noise it cannot cope.
29th March 2016
A.K. Paul - Landcruisin
A.K. Paul’s first steps are fittingly future-facing.
27th March 2016
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
4 Stars
If the songwriting on ‘Hitch’ is, to coin an old music hack turn-of-phrase, ‘mature’, it’s also concise — in a good way.
25th March 2016
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.