FKA Twigs - LP1

4 Stars

Clarity is shunned for something more confounding, more intoxicating.

5th August 2014

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent

4 Stars

A Sunny Day in Glasgow feeling rosy cheeked, fresh-faced and wide-eyed for the first time in their career.

1st August 2014

Talons - New Topographics

4 Stars

Not quite as loud, but just as enthrallingly intense.

30th July 2014

Summer Camp - Beyond Clueless OST

4 Stars

An album that doesn’t celebrate teenage culture, but exposes the cracks in its facade.

30th July 2014

Adult Jazz - Gist Is

4 Stars

A record of intriguing, ear-catching pop music.

29th July 2014

La Roux - Trouble in Paradise

4 Stars

Five years on, that pop appeal is still at the forefront, but ​‘Trouble Is Paradise’ feels warmer, cheekier and more mischievous.

18th July 2014

Alvvays - Alvvays

4 Stars

With each effort packing at least half a dozen unique hooks, it’s difficult for anything to come off remotely dull.

16th July 2014

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

4 Stars

A short, sharp record that is as emotionally pummelling as it is incessantly catchy.

15th July 2014

King Creosote - From Scotland With Love

4 Stars

A record which triumphs whether you’re a Scot or not.

10th July 2014

Woman’s Hour - Conversations

4 Stars

Whereas some precise electronic pop records come off cold, this one has a genuine soul.

9th July 2014

Jungle - Jungle

4 Stars

Jungle aren’t stuck sweating in the Amazon.

8th July 2014

Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell

4 Stars

Every speck of this record is all about supporting a vocal.

3rd July 2014

The Acid - Liminal

4 Stars

A record that operates in the alloy of anaesthetised lethargy and paranoid agitation.

1st July 2014

George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage

4 Stars

He could be singing his shopping list, and it would still sound charged with pure emotion.

24th June 2014

How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?

4 Stars

An artist who is more determined than ever.

19th June 2014

Mastodon - Once More ‘Round The Sun

4 Stars

Despite becoming one of the biggest metal bands around, Mastodon manage to keep much of the same edge as an underground band.

17th June 2014

Lone - Reality Testing

4 Stars

It’s Cutler’s wild imaginations being given their own space.

13th June 2014

The Antlers - Familiars

4 Stars

Not only hauntingly beautiful, but more than rewards.

13th June 2014

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

4 Stars

She’s a Wes Anderson character that’s wound up in a David Lynch film, and she knows it.

13th June 2014

Cerebral Ballzy - Jaded & Faded

4 Stars

They’re dirtier, filthier, meaner, and more visceral and raw than ever before.

12th June 2014

White Lung - Deep Fantasy

4 Stars

White Lung’s snarliest and most bloodthirsty record to date.

12th June 2014

Boris - Noise

4 Stars

A singularly intense and essential album.

9th June 2014

Jack White - Lazaretto

4 Stars

It shouldn’t be a Jack White record. And yet it couldn’t be anything but.

6th June 2014

First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

4 Stars

Big-hearted songs that breeze straight past bummed out despondency. 

6th June 2014