DZ Deathrays - Positive Rising: Part 2
3-5 Stars
The Aussies want you to know they haven’t given up hope.
8th July 2021
3-5 Stars rated Albums & EPs
Doja Cat - Planet Her
3-5 Stars
Whether the record’s legacy will hold past the next trend cycle is not quite written in the stars.
25th June 2021
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
3-5 Stars
Not quite Modest Mouse at their best, but they’re not a million miles away from it, either.
24th June 2021
Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms
3-5 Stars
If the goal of a debut album is to introduce yourself to the world with a sound and a style that’s purely your own, the Romeos have done a pretty stellar job.
24th June 2021
Francis Lung - Miracle
3-5 Stars
He isn’t reinventing the wheel here, but he knows what he’s good at.
17th June 2021
Garbage - No Gods No Masters
3-5 Stars
Both rhythmic and chaotic, it mirrors the frenetic turbulence of the times that have inspired it.
10th June 2021
cleopatrick - BUMMER
3-5 Stars
Not everything about ‘BUMMER’ is fully perfected just yet, but there’s plenty to feel upbeat about.
3rd June 2021
N0V3L - Non-Fiction
3-5 Stars
Funereal, chorus-soaked bass-lines, razor-at-the-throat guitar turns, and febrile grooves.
27th May 2021
black midi - Cavalcade
3-5 Stars
Building from a sound already so idiosyncratic and unpredictable, they end up in some head-scratching corners.
27th May 2021
Billie Marten - Flora Fauna
3-5 Stars
The onus on ‘Flora Fauna’ is on Billie’s voice, in more ways than one.
20th May 2021
Waterparks - Greatest Hits
3-5 Stars
Throughout the album’s staggering seventeen tracks, it does become easy to get a little lost.
20th May 2021
CHAI - WINK
3-5 Stars
Sonically, they’re testing out a whole new palette.
20th May 2021
Fightmilk - Contender
3-5 Stars
A marked step forwards from one of Britain’s more endearingly idiosyncratic indie rock outfits.
13th May 2021
dodie - Build A Problem
3-5 Stars
Woven with cautionary tales, witty one-liners and a painful level of self-awareness.
6th May 2021
Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
3-5 Stars
Ripping up their rulebook? Hardly. Giving long-time fans something new to enjoy? You bet.
29th April 2021
Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
3-5 Stars
There’s life in these old veterans yet.
22nd April 2021
Silver Synthetic - Silver Synthetic
3-5 Stars
There’s no new ground broken by Silver Synthetic here, but it’s a finely-crafted debut all the same.
8th April 2021
Bryce Dessner - Impermanence / Disintegration
3-5 Stars
A stirring reminder of the raw talent in the National fold.
1st April 2021
Du Blonde - Homecoming
3-5 Stars
The sound of self-affirmation.
1st April 2021
Citizen - Life In Your Glass World
3-5 Stars
The band have landed between the dense atmospherics of what has come before and a newfound desire to seriously up the energy.
25th March 2021
Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers
3-5 Stars
An album which sees the pair attempt to build upon the mythology of their past — and reclaim a little of it, too — it’s a move that largely pays off.
25th March 2021
L’Impératrice - Tako Tsubo
3-5 Stars
The Parisian intergalactic pop voyagers communicate a retrofuturism that’s rooted firmly in the present.
25th March 2021
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
3-5 Stars
The confidence feels diminished, the rich production of its predecessor replaced by something thinner, sadder.
19th March 2021
William Doyle - Great Spans of Muddy Time
3-5 Stars
What is constant are its dazzling, spontaneous qualities.
18th March 2021
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.