Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms
4 Stars
An album that paves a sonically brighter and broader future ahead.
6th May 2022
Reviews
Ibeyi - Spell 31
4 Stars
Exploring identities past and present playfully, and with immediacy.
6th May 2022
Belle & Sebastian - A Bit Of Previous
4 Stars
When they’re serving up classical pop tracks this accomplished, it’s ground you’re delighted to hear them going back over.
6th May 2022
Sigrid - How To Let Go
3-5 Stars
Sigrid is colliding with herself, accepting everything she is, the light and the dark.
6th May 2022
JennyLee - Heart Tax
4 Stars
After five Warpaint-less years, two buses have come along at once.
23rd April 2022
Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life
4-5 Stars
One of the year’s most essential records yet.
22nd April 2022
Dama Scout - gen wo lai (come with me)
4-5 Stars
Everything that brilliant self-titled EP promised and more.
22nd April 2022
English Teacher - Polyawkward
4 Stars
A tentative, intricate construction of melodies.
22nd April 2022
Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
5 Stars
It’s heavy, but never heavy-going.
22nd April 2022
Hatchie - Giving The World Away
4 Stars
Cinematic, sweeping dream-pop that evokes the longing of the Cranberries and melancholy of Cocteau Twins.
22nd April 2022
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Night Gnomes
3 Stars
Despite the album featuring several enjoyable moments, the listener is left feeling that it’s somewhat rambling and unfocused.
22nd April 2022
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful
3-5 Stars
There’s just enough on ‘Everything…’ to ingratiate fans both new and old.
22nd April 2022
Kurt Vile - (watch my moves)
3-5 Stars
Unquestionably one of Kurt’s easier-going records.
15th April 2022
Father John Misty - Chloë And The Next 20th Century
4-5 Stars
He’s transporting himself to a different world.
8th April 2022
HEALTH - DISCO4 :: PART II
4 Stars
Nine times out of ten, the scale of their ambition pays monumental dividends.
8th April 2022
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn
4-5 Stars
Ferociously heavy, wonderfully weird.
8th April 2022
Omar Apollo - Ivory
4 Stars
Conflating his electro-pop tendencies with the occasional stride of a campfire guitar, he turns everything he touches to glistening radio gold.
8th April 2022
Orville Peck - Bronco
4 Stars
It flits between theatricality and poignancy.
8th April 2022
Role Model - Rx
4 Stars
It finds the pop star navigating life while falling in love, and is more than worth the wait.
8th April 2022
Syd - Broken Hearts Club
4 Stars
It’s vulnerable, it’s heartfelt, and above all it feels real.
8th April 2022
The Linda Lindas - Growing Up
4 Stars
A record that reaches across the generational divide through both its mastery of sound and the universality of its stories.
8th April 2022
Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart
3-5 Stars
It finds him at his most confident, if not most innovative, and maybe his most comfortable.
8th April 2022
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
5 Stars
Packed with righteous middle fingers and playful bon mots.
8th April 2022
Miso Extra - Great Taste
4 Stars
An appetising hors d’oeuvre for a main course which, we can only hope, is soon to follow.
1st April 2022
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.