Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
4 Stars
Aurora’s celestial spark remains her calling card.
21st January 2022
Reviews
Kyla La Grange - While Your Heart’s Still Beating
3-5 Stars
A natural and elegant evolution of character.
21st January 2022
Palace - Shoals
3-5 Stars
A far more existentially reflective side of Palace.
21st January 2022
Miles Kane - Change The Show
3 Stars
All in all, the blanketing lime-lit production, the in-your-face ’60s nostalgia, the five-sugars-in-the-tea gooiness of it all may be too cloying for some.
21st January 2022
Silverbacks - Archive Material
2-5 Stars
A puzzling, and largely forgettable collection.
21st January 2022
Yard Act - The Overload
5 Stars
Brilliantly constructed to unfurl like some sordid soap opera of Brexit Britain.
21st January 2022
Years & Years - Night Call
4 Stars
A horny soundtrack of the the Great Global Hook-Up Drought of 2020⁄1.
21st January 2022
IDLES, O2 Academy Brixton
IDLES might have been headlining, but tonight’s a 2−4−1 of artists more than ready to occupy the spot.
20th January 2022
VLURE - Euphoria
4 Stars
This floor-filling debut seamlessly blends subterranean dance textures, crunching guitar, soaring synth leads and pulsating intensity.
14th January 2022
Bonobo - Fragments
3 Stars
When you want something with more heft, it’s a record that’s lacking.
14th January 2022
Fickle Friends - Are We Gonna Be Alright?
2-5 Stars
Unfortunately, it often misses the mark.
14th January 2022
Orlando Weeks - Hop Up
3-5 Stars
An irresistibly likeable album.
14th January 2022
FKA twigs - Caprisongs
4 Stars
We find twigs experimenting not with, say, textures or song structure, but with dipping her toes into the mainstream.
14th January 2022
The Weeknd - Dawn FM
4 Stars
It’s so spot-on ’80s as to imagine Max Headroom could interrupt at any given moment.
7th January 2022
Spector - Now Or Whenever
4 Stars
Striking between the two eras of their sound.
7th January 2022
Twin Atlantic - Transparency
3 Stars
It may not be the most polished or serious piece of art to emerge from the pandemic.
7th January 2022
Exit Kid - Basis
3-5 Stars
It’s impossible to reach the end of ‘Basis’ and not really want more.
10th December 2021
Gorillaz turn The O2 into their own festival for a joyous return to arena shows
Celebratory and instinctively inclusive, no band could have done it better.
8th December 2021
No Rome - It’s All Smiles
4 Stars
With every listen there’s something else to hear, something new to discover, and something different to feel.
3rd December 2021
Arca - KICK ii, KicK iii, kick iiii, kICK iiiii
4 Stars
A complex calling card from a singular artist.
3rd December 2021
Static Dress - Prologue…
4 Stars
A first real taste of the sheer depth that the band seem intent on diving to for their work.
3rd December 2021
EERA - Speak
3-5 Stars
‘Speak’ casts a macroscopic lens on the human experience.
3rd December 2021
Deap Vally - Marriage
4 Stars
The sound of Deap Vally tapping back into what makes them tick.
19th November 2021
Weird Milk - We Were Strangers
3-5 Stars
A short collection that’s retro-leaning, no doubt.
17th November 2021
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.