Nick Mee
Cornershop – England Is A Garden // Album Review
At its windswept best, it's joyous, and this album is generous in that regard.
Nicolas Godin – Concrete And Glass // Album Review
It's the album's instrumental infrastructure - its taut beats and warm synths - that give most pleasure; firm foundations, at least.
Honeyblood – In Plain Sight // Album Review
It’s largely set to glassily- produced bubblegum rock that lacks the raw punch of Honeyblood’s earlier material but isn’t shy of brash pop-punk hooks.
Kamal Keila – Muslims And Christians // Album Review
Like many of the veteran African artists recently uncovered for wider delectation, Kamal Keila gives good back-story.
LUMP – LUMP // Album Review
Lindsay's graceful compositions feature spacious layers of intimate electronica and precise instrumentation – plucked, blown and sequenced...
Public Access TV – Street Safari // Album Review
But would temperance curb the creative dynamic of a quartet who shared more with their city's late-Seventies scenesters than just a preference for hedonism over hygiene? Happily not.
Oumou Sangaré // Live Review
It only took the subtlest gestures from Oumou Sangaré to completely transform the vibe at her Roundhouse show last week.
Portico Quartet – Art In The Age Of Automation // Album...
From the nimble drumming to the rich layers of strings, no semiquaver goes unexamined.
Heliocentrics // Live Review
A set of adept psychedelia, a miasma of swirling trance drawn from European space rock, North African funk and South Asian ragas.
Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now // Album Review
Typically filed under folk, Jesca Hoop bends the parameters of classification.
Sherwood & Pinch – Man Vs Sofa // Album Review
Since teaming up with Tectonic label head and dubstep maestro Rob Ellis, aka Pinch, Sherwood’s sonic nonconformity seems as determined as ever
Orchestra Baobab // Live Review
Time passed quickly as Orchestra Baobab played for nigh on 100 minutes.
Mouse On The Keys – Out of Body // Album Review
It’s a complex album, an instrumental one that brings new meaning to suffering for one’s art.
Lou Rhodes – Theyesandeye
Lou Rhodes' fourth album reminds us of humanity’s incessant taste for the tragic, even among all this love
Beverly – The Blue Swell // Album Review
Beverly’s middleweight indie-pop packs an impact you just didn’t see coming
The Comet Is Coming // Live Review
Its psychedelic electronica meets tribal-jazz hypnotics again owning the room.
Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
Brutal techno beats, fleeting chordal swells and Karl Hyde’s agitated torrent-of-consciousness remains a loose template for Underworld’s best work into their seventh album
Cavern of Anti-Matter // Live Review
An addictively complex blend of syncopated sine-waves and wordless Krautrock rhythm.
Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together // Album Review
New West Records - February 26th Aside from the introspective confessionals of the early Seventies West Coast folkies, has any musical generation sounded so glum?...
School of Seven Bells – SVIIB // Album Review
Synth-heavy haze enveloping songs reliant on the extent to which Deheza’s swooping melodies haunt your daydreams
Africaine 808 – Basar // Album Review
The duo’s first album as eschews the pleasure-principled escapism of the Nineties ambient house scene.