Foxes - All I Need
4 Stars
It’s clear she’s truly found her voice.
23rd February 2016
4 Stars rated Albums & EPs
TEEN - Love Yes
4 Stars
‘Love Yes’ serves as the most iridescent article of TEEN’s discography.
19th February 2016
Animal Collective - Painting With
4 Stars
An album about doing away with boundaries, escaping definition, and running riot.
19th February 2016
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
4 Stars
Wild Nothing take an unmistakable euphoria and drive it home.
19th February 2016
Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
4 Stars
Nothing is overstated or particularly complex, but it’s in the little flairs of trickery littered throughout each track that Mothers really come alive.
18th February 2016
Yuck - Stranger Things
4 Stars
There’s a gnashing bite to the London band these days.
18th February 2016
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
4 Stars
An attention to detail like no other.
17th February 2016
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
4 Stars
‘SVIIB’ may be the full stop on the band’s work together, but it’s an album that will stand as the perfect goodbye.
12th February 2016
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
4 Stars
‘The Album Paranoia’ could so easily serve as the soundtrack to a trip through space-time.
5th February 2016
DIIV - Is The Is Are
4 Stars
On ‘Is The Is Are’, everything carries more meaning; he’s well and truly made his point here.
5th February 2016
Telegram - Operator
4 Stars
Other rock debuts this year may well prove more immediately accessible, but few are likely to be as thrillingly original.
5th February 2016
Basement - Promise Everything
4 Stars
‘Promise Everything’ epitomises all of the reasons fans were so eager for their hiatus to end.
29th January 2016
Wet - Don’t You
4 Stars
Unflinchingly honest, Wet don’t specialise in happy endings, but they’re always telling a good story.
29th January 2016
Cross Record - Wabi-Sabi
4 Stars
The brilliance of this Cross Record album, ‘Wabi-Sabi’, is in how perfect calm gets broken by a terrifying storm.
29th January 2016
Milk Teeth - Vile Child
4 Stars
Milk Teeth are defined as much by days spent staring at the ceiling as those chugging cider down the park.
27th January 2016
NZCA Lines - Infinite Summer
4 Stars
‘Infinite Summer’ is a beast that demands expansive concert halls and expectant crowds.
22nd January 2016
Suede - Night Thoughts
4 Stars
Rooted in its own creation, ‘Night Thoughts’ is expansive and enchanting.
22nd January 2016
Savages - Adore Life
4 Stars
Placing love on the surgeon’s table, and dissecting it, they’re every bit as mindbogglingly ambitious.
20th January 2016
Panic! At The Disco - Death of a Bachelor
4 Stars
It’s hard not to bowled over by Brendon Urie’s efforts yet again.
15th January 2016
Mystery Jets - Curve Of The Earth
4 Stars
A magic that has endured.
15th January 2016
Hinds - Leave Me Alone
4 Stars
True and proud of every ingredient making up their early existence, Hinds create a blueprint in how not to give a fuck.
8th January 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar
4 Stars
‘Blackstar’ seems to be him giving everything, allowing all of his creative impulses to flourish.
7th January 2016
Pusha T - Darkest Before The Dawn: The Prelude
4 Stars
Pusha T has so much more to offer than before
4th January 2016
Archy Marshall - ‘A New Place 2 Drown’
4 Stars
Like a post-watershed episode of Skins without the plot-tying happy ending.
11th December 2015
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.