Album Review: Iceage – ‘Plowing Into The Field Of Love’
Denmark’s finest confirm themselves as the band of our generation with their third album – a captivating concoction of contemporary, accessible punk and beautiful, experimental post-punk. Their second,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Flying Lotus –‘You’re Dead!’
The fifth full-length release from the Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!, starts off incredibly hectic. Opening track, ’Theme’, sounds like a great orchestra warming up and tuning their...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Caribou –‘Our Love’
After breaking into popular consciousness with his widely esteemed 2010 release Swim, Dan Snaith returns once again under the moniker Caribou to bring us another intricately crafted record...
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Album Review: Hozier –‘Hozier’
Andrew Byrne-Hozier, the Irish folky blues singer-songwriter has released his first album. The self-titled compilation strings together a bunch of singles released by Hozier over the past few years....
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Album Review: Alt-J- ‘This Is All Yours’
Alt-J’s debut album An Awesome Wave contained a roughly equal measure of the memorable and the forgettable. While songs like ‘Matilda’ and ‘Taro’ showed off the band’s penchant for vibrant indie pop...
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Album Review: The Black Keys –‘Turn Blue’
All bands refine their sound over their careers – at least, the good ones do. The trick is to balance the original style or sound with new elements and ideas. Unfortunately, The Black Keys seemed so...
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Album Review: Kimbra- ‘The Golden Echo’
On her 2nd LP the Melbourne based songwriter shows off a fantastic collection of indie pop songs which consistently excite through their joy and variety. The Golden Echo is a long album. It clocks in...
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Album Review: Mike TV – Sausage Hospital
It has been six years since the Mike TV boys released their first wittily titled ‘Mike TV’ album. This was of course after the change from the earlier days of the band being a threesome of musical...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
Scott Walker has had a pretty unique career. The singer known to one generation as a chamber pop star, producing hits with his two ‘brothers’, neither of them related. Songs like ‘No Regrets’ and ‘Sun...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Wharves – At Bay
Nottingham three-piece, The Wharves, continue the current golden era of music in the city with their outstanding debut record, At Bay. Having been recorded in Rory Atwell’s Lightship 95 studio, At Bay...
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Album Review: Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
After eight years Damien Rice is back with third album My Favourite Faded Fantasy. Still a hopeless romantic in turmoil, he brings out a musically rich album with typical Damien Rice traits and a few...
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Album Review: The Shivas – You Know What To Do
Portland-based group The Shivas continue their energetic 60’s sounds with their fourth release, You Know What To Do. Every album that you hear about will have been produced with the aid of a computer;...
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Album Review: Taylor Swift – 1989
Following worldwide hits such as ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ and ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’, Taylor Swift has slowly been moving in a more pop-oriented direction, headed mainly by Swedish...
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Album Review: Calvin Harris – Motion
Last week, Calvin Harris released his fourth studio album ‘Motion’ and, although not a ground breaking new sound, it’s likely that this will knock Taylor Swift off the top spot in the album charts next...
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Album Review: Pink Floyd – The Endless River
The story of Messers Barrett, Waters, Mason, Wright and Gilmour is almost the archetypal tale of victory through defeat; of innovative, legendary sound through adverse circumstances. Despite a mentally...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Flaming Lips –‘With a Little Help from My Fwends’
The Flaming Lips have never been a band to shy away from ambitious cover projects. From Kylie Minogue to Led Zeppelin, MGMT to Madonna, the group have revelled in spinning their signature psychedelic...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Ben Howard –‘I Forgot Where We Were’
Ben Howard’s back, but his upbeat, chirpy self isn’t. I Forget Where We Were is darker, more melancholic… but still well worth a listen. Gone are the upbeat acoustic melodies featured in Howard’s...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Death From Above 1979 –‘The Physical World’
Given the commercial success of Royal Blood’s self-entitled debut album, it’s a wonder Death From Above 1979’s second LP failed to attract the same attention. After all, the tried-and-tested...
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Album Review: Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea
Parquet Courts have undergone some changes and released a new album entitled Content Nausea. With a subtle name change and fewer band members Impact discover whether PQ’s remodel has paid off. Parquet...
View ArticleSingle Review: The Wombats –‘Greek Tragedy’
It’s been a long wait for fans of the Marsupial Trio, but the Liverpudlian pop outfit has finally dropped their first single to the highly anticipated 3rd studio album, Glitterbug. It seems like an age...
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