Beatrice Dillon – Workaround // Album Review
Whilst Workaround captures the hypnotism of sultry, dusky nights in the club, drawing on the spaciousness of dub and experimental electronica, it's also an incredibly intimate record, deserving of attentive solitary listening.
The Goon Sax – Up To Anything // Album Review
a record which is both mightily accomplished and manages to effortlessly navigate the naiveties and pitfalls of youth.
Objekt – Cocoon Crush // Album Review
Repeated spins reveal its tricked-out geekery, with moments of harsh distortion or woozy keys both charming in equal measure.
WHY? – Moh Lhean // Album Review
A lot can change in four years and WHY?’s latest effort departs quite dramatically from the sound of Mumps.
Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals // Album Review
In ‘Bitter Rivals’, they've unleashed something straddling the line between brilliantly compelling and practically unlistenable.
Bleached – Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough // Album Review
Despite the dark times that influenced it, the record leaves one buoyant; a reminder that daybreak is always on the horizon.
Jensen Sportag – Stealth of Days // Album Review
The pair have carved out a sort of accidental concept album - songs for post-Skins youth in all their late night, drug-taking, love-making glory
TTNG – Disappointment Island // Album Review
The dizzying knot of complex riffs and intricate time signatures remains, but Disappointment Island bristles with a playfulness not heard before
Gum Takes Tooth – Mirrors Fold // Album Reviews
Gum Takes Tooth can as easily serve up palate-cleansing ambient interference as they can tear into mind-numbing drone, Mirrors Fold an hour of the most pleasurable pain
Twin Peaks – Wild Onion // Album Review
there is much to admire in a young band presenting a sixteen track LP, you can’t help but wonder what could have been shaved in the interest of brevity.
The Body – No One Deserves Happiness // Album Review
No One Deserves Happiness; a melodramatic title belying so little of the genuine trauma of its contents that it’s laughable
Lunice – CCCLX // Album Review
Four years since we last heard from him, on his long awaited debut, Lunice is comfortably at his trailblazing, bat-shit best.
Soccer96 – As Above So Below // Album Review
It’s been four years since the release of their self-titled debut, but As Above So Below is worth the wait
Danny Brown – uknowhatimsayin¿ // Album Review
Laced with features from Run The Jewels, Obongjayar and Blood Orange, uknowhatimsayin¿ has a maturity to it unlike previous releases from the American rapper.
Alessia Cara – Know-It-All // Album Review
it’s as often about the teen we wish we’d been as it is the insecure dork we actually were.
U.S. Girls – Heavy Light // Album Review
Weighty themes indeed, but it's an uncomplicated treat of a listen that contains some of Remy's best work.
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
This isn’t an easy listen. But what Girl Band have made is the bold and ambitious statement of a band capable of anything. Inventive, ferocious, relentless. If you’ve been looking for An Important Band in your life, they are it.
Of Montreal – Lousy with Sylvianbriar // Album Review
Fun, thought-provoking and gloriously intriguing, ‘Lousy’ is one thing this record certainly is not.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana // Album Review
A curious taste of what might come next, and just so happens to serve as a suitably bleak accompaniment to the utter state of the world.
Parquet Courts – Tally All The Things That You Broke // EP Review
One thing that doesn't change is the nifty lyrics, the raw and exposed battering riffs, and the bratty boldness.
Sigrid – Sucker Punch // Album Review
There’s risk of not delivering when the time comes – but Sigrid's outdone herself.
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