Ryley Walker - Course In Fable

4 Stars

A typically intricate affair.

1st April 2021

GHLOW - Slash And Burn

4 Stars

If this is what the apocalypse sounds like, then count us in.

1st April 2021

serpentwithfeet - DEACON

4 Stars

‘DEACON’ looks for hope in love, much like in the spirituality that birthed it.

25th March 2021

Tune-Yards - sketchy.

4 Stars

Frenetic and fizzy.

25th March 2021

Bull - Discover Effortless Living

4 Stars

A guitar-wielding force to be reckoned with.

25th March 2021

Ben Howard - Collections From The Whiteout

4 Stars

Melancholy, meticulous and achingly grand.

25th March 2021

Xiu Xiu - OH NO

4 Stars

It’s unlikely to win them any new followers, but existing fans won’t be disappointed.

25th March 2021

Chad VanGaalen - World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener

4 Stars

His cartoonish appetite for invention remains intact.

18th March 2021

Black Honey - Written & Directed

4 Stars

It sees the quartet evolving into the rock outfit they’d always threatened to be.

18th March 2021

Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth

4 Stars

He plays well with dark and sinister, throwing theatrical voice in a musical hall of mirrors with real versatility.

4th March 2021

Adult Mom - Driver

4 Stars

If it were as easy as Adult Mom makes it sound to write pop gems this endearing in their honesty, everybody would be doing it.

4th March 2021

Zara Larsson - Poster Girl

4 Stars

Pure pop escapism.

4th March 2021

Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

4 Stars

The vivid, often lurid portraits Aidan Moffat paints of the society around him feel more vital than ever.

4th March 2021

Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember

4 Stars

Raw and uncompromising, yet always harbouring a degree of melody.

25th February 2021

Sydney Sprague - maybe i will see you at the end of the world

4 Stars

It unravels in waves of angst, reflection and dark humour.

25th February 2021

Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist

4 Stars

The bleaker things get, the stronger they emerge.

25th February 2021

Mogwai - As The Love Continues

4 Stars

An instrumental masterclass.

18th February 2021

slowthai - TYRON

4 Stars

A remarkably efficient job of reclaiming his own narrative.

11th February 2021

Aerial East - Try Harder

4 Stars

Though often an album of departures, it works to find new ground to walk upon.

11th February 2021

Django Django - Glowing in the Dark

4 Stars

When the songwriting and appetite for invention remains this strong, Django Django certainly have a lot more to give.

11th February 2021

Virginia Wing - private LIFE

4 Stars

Cathartic, abstract and certainly treading off the beaten path.

11th February 2021

Mush - Lines Redacted

4 Stars

Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. Like many bands before and since, Mush live by these preachings.

11th February 2021

Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight

4 Stars

With sticky melodies and a spring in its step, it’s an experiment that pays off.

4th February 2021

The Staves - Good Woman

4 Stars

For all the trials bestowed upon the trio in the past few years, they emerge positive and victorious.

4th February 2021