Braids - Flourish // Perish

4 Stars

‘Flourish // Perish’ is winter to ​‘Native Speaker’’s summer.

12th August 2013

Outfit - Performance

4 Stars

A debut defined by exactitude and clever concepts.

8th August 2013

Washed Out - Paracosm

4 Stars

Washed Out retains its sense of bittersweet melancholy, but on this occasion it sounds complete.

7th August 2013

Moderat – II

4 Stars

Their finest work yet.

2nd August 2013

Pond - Hobo Rocket

4 Stars

Pond have never sounded more insane and off their rocker, and it’s truly, absolutely, stunningly brilliant to listen to.

1st August 2013

Raffertie - Sleep Of Reason

4 Stars

A gorgeous and rewarding listen.

31st July 2013

Swim Deep - Where The Heaven Are We

4 Stars

A brilliantly flippant pick and mix attitude to music bygone that only a young, enthusiastic, hungry band can pull off.

30th July 2013

AlunaGeorge - Body Music

4 Stars

Aluna and George balance each other in the perfect see-saw, and ​‘Body Music’ is an absolute playground of pop music.

26th July 2013

Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

4 Stars

An LP which ebbs and flows and oozes with delicious ease and grand intent.

19th July 2013

Pet Shop Boys - Electric

4 Stars

If this is the summer of disco then the Pet Shop Boys are the kings.

10th July 2013

letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful

4 Stars

The first time letlive. have really put their stamp on a record.

5th July 2013

Throwing Up - Over You

4 Stars

An album that chews up and spits out the bland, colour-by-numbers music industry rule book, regurgitating it in its rawest, nastiest form.

4th July 2013

Daughn Gibson – Me Moan

4 Stars

For all the added atmospherics, the album never feels overcrowded.

4th July 2013

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels

4 Stars

The perfect balance between what Killer Mike and El‑P are about.

2nd July 2013

Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

4 Stars

One of US indie’s most vital and compelling voices.

28th June 2013

Benin City - Fires In The Park

4 Stars

Benin City have made a stunning debut.

27th June 2013

A Grave With No Name - Whirlpool

4 Stars

An enticing and grungy cocktail of dreamy, hazy and sombre sounds that bring to mind all the best touchpoints of 80s and 90s alt rock.

26th June 2013

Deap Vally - Sistrionix

4 Stars

Smashing the patriarchy in three chords and some tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

21st June 2013

Smith Westerns - Soft Will

4 Stars

Guitar music of epic ambition.

20th June 2013

Kanye West - Yeezus

4 Stars

Often it yields some of Yeezy’s finest moments, other times his most uncomfortable.

18th June 2013

Tripwires - Spacehopper

4 Stars

Mind-blowingly good.

13th June 2013

Sigur Rós - Kveikur

4 Stars

Less like accidentally walking into David Attenborough’s funeral and more like some incredible, unrealised score for an immersive, imagined Icelandic crime drama.

13th June 2013

Jagwar Ma - Howlin

4 Stars

Equally uplifting and calming, it’s the dancefloor via the beach.

10th June 2013

These New Puritans - Field Of Reeds

4 Stars

If it sounds ridiculous, it is.

6th June 2013