Album Review: Title Fight –‘Hyperview’
With the 2009 release of their debut full length “The Last Thing You Forget” the aptly named Title Fight became something of a minor overnight sensation. The 12 tracks of moody, energetic punk with...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Father John Misty –‘I Love You Honeybear’
What sort of love song can exist in this day and age? In a time when the best ballads tend to be about heartbreak rather than heartache; while words like love and desire have been packaged off and...
View ArticleSingle Review: Drenge –‘We Can Do What We Want’
To an excited response from their followers, alternative duo Drenge announced that their hotly anticipated second LP will be released in April this year. We could tell the Loveless brothers had...
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Album Review: Panda Bear –‘Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper’
Many people won’t have heard of Panda Bear, but those who have will know that he’s one of the most experimental musicians of recent years. From his work on Daft Punk’s brilliant Random Access Memories,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Peace –‘Happy People’
Despite having already been treated to half of the ten songs on their new record Happy People, question marks still remained over Peace. Are they just the Nineties pretenders as the cynics claim? Would...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Drake –‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’
This is an exciting time for hip-hop fans; releases from the likes of Lil Wayne, Kanye, Wu-Tang, Kendrick Lamar and Lupe Fiasco are coming thick and fast, and then out the blue; a brand new album from...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Purity Ring – ‘Another Eternity’
On first listen, Purity Ring come across as some sort of otherworldly, mysterious, maybe even alien creatures. It’s difficult to pin down why, but there’s something about hearing what sounds like a...
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Album Review: Kendrick Lamar- ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
“Gather your wind, take a deep look inside. Are you really who they idolise, to pimp a butterfly?” Perhaps the most compelling line from the first song of the album, it sets the tone for what the album...
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Album Review: Beans on Tost –‘The Grand Scheme of Things’
The Grand Scheme of Things is the latest release from Drunk-Folk hero Beans on Toast. ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ is an accurate cliché listening to this album, but this unoriginality...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Waxahatchee –‘Ivy Tripp’
Katie Crutchfield returns for her third album under the Waxahatchee moniker with a beefed-up, three guitar sonic assault and the best songs she’s written yet. Crutchfield’s first album, 2012’s American...
View ArticleAlbum Review: James Bay –‘Chaos and the Calm’
After being awarded the BRITS Critics Choice Award this year, James Bay’s debut album Chaos and the Calm is set to shoot him to stardom in the form of Britain’s most exciting new brooding man with a...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Villagers –‘Darling Arithmetic’
Villagers return with their third album, Darling Arithmetic, crafted primarily by Conor O’Brien and recorded in his own home in Ireland. Made up of a selection of stripped-back songs that what were...
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Album Review: Madonna – Rebel Heart
The question of whether Madonna, thirty-two years into her career, can remain relevant to today’s music scene is a question that comes up repeatedly when listening to Rebel Heart, her thirteenth studio...
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Album Review: The Staves – If I Was
After their fantastic debut album in 2012, the trio of multi-instrumentalist sisters return with a wider sonic palette. If I Was, the latest release from the three girls that make up The Staves is...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Sufjan Stevens –‘Carrie and Lowell’
Sufjan Stevens will always be remembered as the guy that stated he would write an album for each of the 50 states in the US, a task which although long and arduous would have definitely been an...
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Album Review: Wombats – Glitterbug
A 4 year wait has spawned the 3rd studio album from the Merseyside indie group The Wombats. Glitterbug marks the next stage of evolution for the band who have spent the majority of their time...
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Album Review: Laura Marling – Short Story
It’s been a great few years for female singer-songwriters. Beside the odd exception like Mark Kozelek or Father John Misty, they’ve pretty much ruled the roost. Courtney Barnett, Natalie Prass and Kali...
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Album Review: Charli XCX – Sucker
Charli XCX has enjoyed an impressive rise in popularity following hits such as ‘Boom Clap’, ‘Fancy’ with Iggy Azalea, and writing Icona Pop’s ‘I Love It’. After the relative commercial failure of...
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Album Review: Tyler, the Creator –‘Cherry Bomb’
The world’s favourite hip-hop heretic returns with his fourth album, and it’s a bit of a riddle. Odd-future’s obtuse frontman, Tyler, the Creator, dropped his new album, Cherry Bomb, one week after...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orchestra –‘Sylva’
The fifth of Snarky Puppy’s albums to be recorded live with an audience, and their eighth offering overall, Sylva is the result of a collaboration between them and the critically acclaimed Metropole...
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