TEEN - Good Fruit
3 Stars
Ahen it captures the alienation and isolation it strives for, it soars.
1st March 2019
3 Stars rated Albums & EPs
Drenge - Strange Creatures
3 Stars
Meandering in their own repetition.
22nd February 2019
Pom Poko - Birthday
3 Stars
A debut full of fired-up, spiky pop hits.
22nd February 2019
Perfect Son - Cast
3 Stars
He’s now fully embracing a dark, industrial indie sound.
15th February 2019
Ry X - Unfurl
3 Stars
A talented guy with a singular vision.
15th February 2019
Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
3 Stars
With its gnarly riffs and big, dark, emotionally weighty numbers, there’s something claustrophobic about its vibe.
1st February 2019
Beirut - Gallipoli
3 Stars
There’s a gorgeous familiarity to the record, but it’s also one peppered with adventure.
1st February 2019
Girlpool - What Chaos Is Imaginary
3 Stars
A multidimensional, multi-faceted affair, full of fragile introspection and meandering guitars.
1st February 2019
Broods - Don’t Feed The Pop Monster
3 Stars
Like downing a heady cocktail of Chvrches and The 1975.
1st February 2019
White Lies - Five
3 Stars
A neat reminder of their staying power.
1st February 2019
Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls
3 Stars
By moving further out, they start to let us in.
1st February 2019
Rat Boy - Internationally Unknown
3 Stars
Rat Boy works best on this record not giving the fans what they want — but something new.
25th January 2019
Press Club - Late Teens
3 Stars
Direct to the point of overwhelming.
25th January 2019
AJ Lambert - Careful You
3 Stars
On every track, she takes every lyric and holds it, as if savouring every line.
21st January 2019
Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
3 Stars
He’s opted to take it easy this time around.
15th January 2019
Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace
3 Stars
A transitional work perhaps, but whichever fork in the road he follows next, you feel he’ll continue to adapt.
15th January 2019
You Tell Me - You Tell Me
3 Stars
Delicate vocals with an indie pop sensibility.
11th January 2019
Smashing Pumpkins - SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN.
3 Stars
Picking up where Billy left off with ‘Ogilala’.
16th November 2018
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Merrie Land
3 Stars
Often too foggy and nostalgic for a reality that’s very dark and very present.
16th November 2018
Muse - Simulation Theory
3 Stars
If a Muse album isn’t meant to make you laugh, gasp and double-take in its ridiculousness, then we don’t wanna hear it.
8th November 2018
Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn
3 Stars
Bill’s fragile whisper of a croon only adds to the aura of lethargic night times spent alone.
2nd November 2018
The Prodigy - No Tourists
3 Stars
While this isn’t vintage Prodigy, it gets pretty damn close.
2nd November 2018
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-01 Hanoi
3 Stars
On the peripheries of what we know to be UMO.
26th October 2018
NAO - Saturn
3 Stars
A more refined, sleek version of her sound.
26th October 2018
Festival special! Featuring Wolf Alice, Kasabian, Lykke Li, Marmozets, Genesis Owusu and more.