Jamie xx - Loud Places
‘Loud Places’ is built for soul-defining moments of musical unity, marking ‘In Colour’ out as a potentially summer-defining record.
25th March 2015
Reviews
Sleater-Kinney triumph at first London gig in nearly a decade
Exhume your idols; Sleater-Kinney are back.
24th March 2015
Brandon Flowers - Can’t Deny My Love
There’s absolutely nothing ‘Can’t Deny My Love’ lacks.
23rd March 2015
The Cribs - For All My Sisters
4 Stars
‘For All My Sisters’ feels like another step up.
22nd March 2015
Mini Mansions - The Great Pretenders
4 Stars
Songs that grow more vivid with every listen.
22nd March 2015
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
5 Stars
Make no mistake — this is a debut like few others.
22nd March 2015
Errors - Lease of Life
4 Stars
A record packed full of ambition and imagination.
21st March 2015
The Go! Team - The Scene Between
3 Stars
This is a record trying to bridge light and dark: and that’s its best and worst trait.
21st March 2015
The Staves - If I Was
3 Stars
‘If I Was’ sees the sisters continuing to make good music which suits their talents.
21st March 2015
Laura Marling - Short Movie
4 Stars
‘Short Movie’ is wonderfully unlike anything Marling has ever attempted before.
21st March 2015
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
4 Stars
Lamar’s work continues to place itself among the best.
19th March 2015
Wolf Alice - I Saw You (In A Corridor)
Wolf Alice are at their most deliberately restrained here, and unearth a gorgeously vulnerable side.
19th March 2015
Royal Blood, Brixton Academy, London
The sheer intensity even breaks a speaker.
18th March 2015
Django Django - Reflections
Django Django’s story is beginning to feel like a continuous evolution.
18th March 2015
Death Cab For Cutie - Little Wanderer
Bittersweet and heartbroken like an indulgent post-breakup bubble bath
17th March 2015
Grimes x Bleachers - Entropy
Whether she’s making power-pop or wearing socks and sandals in public, Grimes does what she wants.
17th March 2015
Marina and the Diamonds - FROOT
4 Stars
‘FROOT’ finds Marina at her most accomplished and intriguing.
16th March 2015
Spector, The Lexington, London
Full speed ahead with neon-lit roads and New Romantic bangers.
16th March 2015
Caribou, Brixton Academy, London
Dan Snaith embraces the big time with all his worth.
16th March 2015
Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
4 Stars
A dramatic switch from those no-frills demos.
15th March 2015
Inventions – Maze Of Woods
3 Stars
‘Maze Of Woods’ pushes and pulls like all good post-rock.
15th March 2015
Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
4 Stars
It’s an album only Modest Mouse could make.
14th March 2015
Nic Hessler - Soft Connections
4 Stars
An accomplished tale from a troubled artist.
14th March 2015
Muse - Psycho
Standard. For Muse, anyway. Anyone else, less so.
13th March 2015
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.