CHVRCHES - The Bones Of What You Believe

4-5 Stars

Twelve equally matched moments of varied tone but consistent brilliance.

17th September 2013

MGMT - MGMT

4-5 Stars

MGMT haven’t necessarily re-discovered their mojo, but re-imagined it.

16th September 2013

Arctic Monkeys - AM

4-5 Stars

A punch drunk brawler with a heart, it’s the pay off to a perfect evolution.

4th September 2013

Forest Swords - Engravings

4-5 Stars

Forest Swords’ debut long-player is electronic mastery at its very finest.

22nd August 2013

MONEY - The Shadow Of Heaven

4-5 Stars

It throws down the gauntlet for what a truly organic and emotive album should be.

19th August 2013

Oliver Wilde - A Brief Introduction To Unnatural Lightyears

4-5 Stars

A truly remarkable debut. 

19th July 2013

Queens Of The Stone Age - …Like Clockwork

4-5 Stars

Enough to make you fall to your knees and weep.

1st June 2013

Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle

4-5 Stars

Compare her to Bob Dylan all you like, but Marling here proves herself, not as a product, but as an equal.

24th May 2013

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

4-5 Stars

Less a slow-burner, more an intriguing stranger.

16th May 2013

Little Boots - Nocturnes

4-5 Stars

A classy album that brims with euphoria.

2nd May 2013

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

4-5 Stars

It’s the right amount of the old Vampire Weekend and the right amount of bold experimentation.

1st May 2013

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

4-5 Stars

Confused? You should be.

1st May 2013

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

4-5 Stars

This is punk unbounded, both structurally and emotionally.

14th April 2013

Peace - In Love

4-5 Stars

With their debut full length, Peace have made a Very Important Album.

22nd March 2013

The Cribs - Payola

4-5 Stars

A staggeringly good collection of songs.

9th March 2013

FIDLAR - FIDLAR

4-5 Stars

Those who fell head-over-heels for the band’s middle-finger-throwing slacker anthem ​‘Cheap Beer’ in mid-2012 will find everything to love.

3rd February 2013

Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament - The Violence

4-5 Stars

There is a strange kind of hope and joy to the album’s warmest moments that belie the, at times, dark themes.

4th November 2012

Tame Impala - Lonerism

4-5 Stars

An absolutely amazing and inspiring record.

8th October 2012

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

4-5 Stars

A term like ​‘glitch-hop’ doesn’t do this music justice; every thudding drumbeat matters, every twinkling piano or breathy vocal line seems vital to creating this world.

29th September 2012

TOY - TOY

4-5 Stars

What ​‘TOY’ lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with an incredibly rich dot-to-dot of psychedelia laced musical education.

8th September 2012

Now, Now - Threads

4-5 Stars

Two parts Paramore to one part Mogwai.

30th August 2012

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

4-5 Stars

A gorgeous album of soundscapes.

28th August 2012

Matthew Dear - Beams

4-5 Stars

An album that is warm and opening yet still dazzlingly inventive.

25th August 2012

Hold Your Horse Is - Frimley

4-5 Stars

At once slick and raw, streamlined and blunt.

7th August 2012