Reviews / Album
Working Men’s Club - Working Men’s Club
4 Stars
It’s the underlying sense of unease and something to prove that really adds the edge.
October 2, 2020 7:57am
Reviews / Album
LANY - Mama’s Boy
3 Stars
Though ‘Mama’s Boy’ won’t exactly be changing the alt-pop game, it certainly might convince you to text your ex after one too many glasses of wine.
October 2, 2020 7:54am
Reviews / Album
Jónsi – Shiver
3 Stars
While ‘Shiver’ isn’t exactly the epitome of batshit some might’ve hoped for, it does have its moments.
October 2, 2020 7:54am
Reviews / Album
The Jaded Hearts Club - You’ve Always Been Here
1-5 Stars
In short, it is fucking dire so, of course, it has arrived in our desperate, joy-deprived laps now just to rub salt in the wound.
October 2, 2020 7:50am
Reviews / EP
mxmtoon - dusk
4 Stars
By knowing her audience and growing with them, toon’s time is unmistakeably now.
October 1, 2020 7:55am
Reviews / EP
Walt Disco - Young Hard and Handsome
4 Stars
The kind of fabulously polarising affair that’ll cement their increasing tribe of acolytes in no time.
September 29, 2020 7:57am
Reviews / Album
Fleet Foxes - Shore
4 Stars
A hopeful return to origins.
September 25, 2020 11:00am
Reviews / Album
Will Butler - Generations
4-5 Stars
What unites the record is an urgent, anxious sense of unrest.
September 24, 2020 8:01am
Reviews / Album
Deftones - Ohms
4-5 Stars
If any of Deftones’ previous records are guilty of lacking focus, ‘Ohms’ is certainly safe from future vitriol.
September 24, 2020 8:00am
Reviews / Album
Sad13 - Haunted Painting
4 Stars
If anybody has access to a higher power of divine survival witchcraft, it’s Sad13.
September 24, 2020 7:59am
Reviews / Album
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
4 Stars
If it makes you move, it’s a winner. If it makes you think too, to Róisín, that’s even better.
September 24, 2020 7:58am
Reviews / Album
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
4 Stars
Pillow Queens are outwardly frustrated but comfortable in themselves, and their sound succeeds in finding the often-untapped ground between the two.
September 24, 2020 7:58am
Reviews / Album
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
4-5 Stars
Not so much a call to arms as an exploration of the individual’s ability to disassociate from the norm.
September 24, 2020 7:57am
Reviews / Album
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
3 Stars
At its best, there’s a vitality on show, with just the right level of dynamic shift hitting at all the right points.
September 24, 2020 7:56am
Reviews / Album
IDLES – Ultra Mono
3-5 Stars
It’s an excellent message to stand for, but a big mantle to carry.
September 24, 2020 7:55am
Reviews / Album
Sylvan Esso - Free Love
4 Stars
Exactly what pop music should be: punchy and pure.
September 24, 2020 7:54am
Reviews / Album
A Swayze & the Ghosts - Paid Salvation
3-5 Stars
Think the organised chaos of ‘70s NYC post-punk, or even the near-drone of erstwhile Leeds rockers Eagulls.
September 17, 2020 7:57am
Reviews / Album
Fenne Lily - Breach
4 Stars
Nothing can stop Fenne Lily now.
September 17, 2020 7:56am
Reviews / Album
Yellow Days - A Day In A Yellow Beat
3-5 Stars
He’s created a heady, vibey, dare we say it - groovy - mood.
September 17, 2020 7:56am
Reviews / Album
Into it. Over It. - Figure
4 Stars
Both lyrically and musically it looks backwards to move forwards.
September 17, 2020 7:56am
Reviews / Album
Gus Dapperton - Orca
3-5 Stars
An artist stepping up musically, while also finding strength in his vulnerability.
September 17, 2020 7:55am
Reviews / Album
AG Cook - Apple
3 Stars
Perhaps on his third debut, he should keep some of the boundary-breaking pop sensibilities we know he has for himself?
September 17, 2020 7:55am
Reviews / Album
Cults - Host
3 Stars
Organic and true, like the first day of spring after a winter full of rain.
September 17, 2020 7:55am
Reviews / Live
Gengahr and Another Sky shine at socially-distant Wild Fields festival
Indoor Pets and Lauran Hibberd also played the Norfolk event.
September 15, 2020 4:49pm
