Jim James - Regions Of Light And Sound Of God

3-5 Stars

Here we see James get in touch with his spiritual side.

30th January 2013

Fionn Regan -The Bunkhouse Vol. 1: Anchor Black Tattoo

3-5 Stars

A stark, sparse, brief lament through troubles. Of the heart, the soul, and the sea.

25th January 2013

Indians - Somewhere Else

3-5 Stars

‘Somewhere Else’ really can take you somewhere else if you let it.

22nd January 2013

Mountains - Centralia

3-5 Stars

A whole new level of craftsmanship from Holtkamp and Anderegg.

21st January 2013

Esben And The Witch - Wash The Sins Not Only The Face

3-5 Stars

Definitely ominous and creepy sounding, without it ever being a gruelling listening-experience.

21st January 2013

Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return

3-5 Stars

This is unlike anything Chaz, or his chillwave contemporaries, have ever even nudged toward before.

20th January 2013

The Pictish Trail - Secret Soundz Vol. 2

3-5 Stars

A day-glo pop carousel, as schizophrenic as it is scrappy.

20th January 2013

Bad Religion - True North

3-5 Stars

Some of the strongest, most focused material that the band have recorded in many years.

18th January 2013

Flamingods - Sun

3-5 Stars

The London five-piece have stitched together a blissfully bright hippie quilt of kaleidoscopic musical beauty.

18th January 2013

I Am Kloot - Let It All In

3-5 Stars

It’s hard to believe the band aren’t bigger, as this sixth album tries its best to reach for the illuminated sky and succeeds.

17th January 2013

Talk Normal - Sunshine

3-5 Stars

The music is complex, but not in a Phillip Glass orchestral kind of way.

14th January 2013

Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST

3-5 Stars

As beguiling and bewitching as any Broadcast studio album proper.

6th January 2013

Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai

3-5 Stars

Sound collages meet with jittery uncertain beats and undulating bass lines.

6th January 2013

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy

3-5 Stars

Using your imagination is a large part of BMSR’s character, musically and otherwise.

17th December 2012

Sinkane - Mars

3-5 Stars

A record which skillfully and fluidly merges the sounds of Sudanese pop, Afro-funk, soul and krautrock.

10th December 2012

Willy Mason - Carry On

3-5 Stars

A return to irregular song structures and stripped back guitar and drums.

2nd December 2012

Bos Angeles - Taking Out The Trash

3-5 Stars

A smattering assault of ooh“s brings the curtain down on Bos Angeles’ career in spectacular fashion. ”

25th November 2012

Umberto - Night Of A Thousand Screams

3-5 Stars

There’s a mausoleum like sense of space and solemnity on display.

24th November 2012

Soundgarden - King Animal

3-5 Stars

There isn’t enough to satisfy the casual listener over the 13 tracks.

21st November 2012

Bjork - Bastards

3-5 Stars

Over the course of the very long album, some of the remixes do fall rather flat.

20th November 2012

Chad Valley - Young Hunger

3-5 Stars

A beguiling mix of fresh exciting sounds and a kind of 1980s smooth blue-eyed soul, it is the old meeting the new.

17th November 2012

Pinback - Information Retrieved

3-5 Stars

‘Information Retrieved’ is an album which reeks with a quiet sense of craftsmanship.

16th November 2012

The Babies - Our House On The Hill

3-5 Stars

So far, so Brooklyn slacker-pop.

13th November 2012

Lone Wolf - The Lovers

3-5 Stars

Almost every one is a foot-tapper and it’s all very pleasing.

11th November 2012