Continental Drift // EP Review
"Continental Drift offers a collection of songs to make your heart soar and your feet move, like all the best pop music should"
Rips – Rips // Album Review
Rips is a self-reflective litany of personal failings; a stream of consciousness on frustrations with self and society.
Yoshinori Hayashi – Ambivalence // Album Review
Ambivalence is an unpredictable listen that serves to highlight Hayashi's class as a DJ, but also more than hints at a musician capable of turning in coherent and fascinating albums.
Pip Blom – Boat // Album Review
Boat bursts open with sharp single, ‘Daddy Issues’, and like a reliable employee delivers big chorus after big chorus.
Review // Surfer Blood – Pythons
Sire Records // June 11th
Surfer Blood's long awaited follow-up to 2010's spectacular surf rock debut 'Astro Coast' is thoroughly enjoyable. Some of the raw...
FTSE – Joyless // Album Review
For all its acerbic political critiques, Joyless has all the depth and focus of a GCSE Politics class run by Just Jack
Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It // Album Review
For early detractors it was easy to dismiss Rolo Tomassi as a curio, but the group have had time to mature and metamorphose into a more nuanced beast.
Best Friends – Hot. Reckless. Totally Insane // Album Review
A triumphant record of fuzz-laden bright melodies and nods towards that pre-9/11 era when everything was fun and chill
The Twilight Sad – It Won’t Be Like This All The Time // Album...
The material is claustrophobic – it's The Twilight Sad after all – yet a few moments of hope can distilled for those with the disposition to search through the darkness.
Beirut – No No No // Album Review
No No No is an intelligent, wholly satisfying work from a group increasingly impossible not to love
Emmy the Great – S // EP Review
a delectable charm of spacious, electronically charged subtleness that strongly suggests that her next album could be a real treat.
Rose Elinor Dougall – Stellular // Album Review
There’s sanctuary and hope offered in this album, and you’d be foolish to not accept it
Cullen Omori – New Misery // Album Review
There is life after the Smith Westerns, and it’s sounding pretty darn sweet.
Breakfast In Fur – Flyaway Garden // Album Review
In its exploration of the place between agitated commotion and blissed-out contentment, Flyaway Garden makes the blurry middle sound like a damn fine place to be
Szun Waves – New Hymn To Freedom // Album Review
Abbott provides the brooding sonic ballast with his synthesizers, while Wyllie and Pike thoughtfully duck and dive around each other.
Review // Lanterns on the Lake – Until The Colours Run
Bella Union - September 7th
The endlessly ambiguous category of ‘alternative rock’ has become, to say the least, over-saturated in recent years. Through the incredible...
The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie // Album Review
All of the contradictory elements seem to complement each other enough to prevent it from sounding confused, instead resulting in an impressive step forward
Various Artists – Voyager Interstellar Record // Album Review
What's out there? No one knows.
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing // Album Review
Though Next Thing might be less immediate than the sweet and melodic indie pop charm of its predecessor, make no mistake, it’s no less brilliant
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food // Album Review
While UMO's fourth album exhibits some of the bleaker elements of life in 2018, it tries to do so in a slick of upbeat, psychedelic disco.
Georgia – Georgia // Album Review
Georgia’s long player is a startlingly brilliant debut: organic, fiercely so, and bristling with swaggering arrogance.
