Album Review: InMe –‘Trilogy: Dawn’
Three albums in less than two years is a lot for any band to release. Now consider that three quarters of InMe also have full time jobs. On top of this a slightly different three quarters of InMe are...
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Album Review: JME –‘Integrity’
The cool and collected co-founder of Boy Better Know, JME, has dropped his third studio album, Integrity. The 16-track release is yet another undulation in the already tidal wave that is today’s Grime...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Nai Harvest – ‘Hairball’
Nai Harvest’s second full-length effort sees them embrace Britpop, squeaky clean productions and huge, huge hooks. The Sheffield duo’s previous songwriting efforts had shown undoubted promise but...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Parrots –‘Weed For The Parrots’
Madrid three-piece, The Parrots, release some more material with their second EP Weed For The Parrots. The band have had a string of previous releases included their split 7” earlier in the year with...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: A$AP ROCKY – ‘At.Long.Last.A$AP ’
The sequel to Long.Live.A$AP has arrived at long last, and it tells a story. The anticipation for new A$AP Rocky material has been rising exponentially for two years now, and with the rapper’s erratic...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Shaun Martin –‘7Summers’
The culmination of seven years hard work and composition, Shaun Martin’s solo debut, aptly named 7Summers, is a fantastic jazz album. The amount of time and craft that has been put into the album is...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Florence And The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Florence Welch is quite a presence. Put her on the stage down your local and she’d knock the head of your ale and most likely send the old faithful running home to the sultry sounds of Santana. Put her...
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Album Review: Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Vince Staples came from nowhere; or, as is often the case with those to whom that by-line is applied, he seemed to come from nowhere. But as was the case with Californian fellow Kendrick Lamar, he’s...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Lil’ Wayne – The Free Weezy Album
Lil Wayne’s latest project, released exclusively on TIDAL, was designed to placate Weezy fans in the prolonged absence of the fifth instalment of his series, Tha Carter V. The question is though, has...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Tame Impala – Currents
After a few albums, many bands reach a stage where they decide to experiment with different aspects of music. This territory can lead to huge success, opening a band up to new audiences and critical...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Future – Dirty Sprite 2
Its 2015, and hip-hop is having something of a personality crisis. Rappers like Czarface and Kendrick Lamar are dropping classics made from the vintage hip-hop facets of lyricism and hard, soulful...
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Album Review: Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
In 2014 Sun Kil Moon found their oeuvre with an instantly classic record, Benji – in which frontman Mark Kozelek put up front a lifetime of experience and poignant stories of those lost in his life,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: MacDemarco – Another One
If you’re looking for an album with more flange guitar, simplistic drum beats and dreamy vocals, then here is another one to add to the list of Mac DeMarco’s masterpieces. The Canadian musician...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People
It’s only been two years since Turner’s last release – the downbeat, heartbreak-scarred Tape Deck Heart – yet the change between it and Positive Songs for Negative People could not be more palpable. If...
View ArticleEP Review: FKA twigs – M3LL155X
When FKA Twigs drops a new project the music world stands to attention – and she forces us to our feet. With a bold album cover, 16 minute music video, five standout new tracks, and an unpronounceable...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Dr. Dre – Compton, A Soundtrack
16 Years?! 16 Years Dre?! What have you been doing?! Oh yeah: becoming the richest black musician in the world, mentoring the world’s most famous rapper Eminem, the world’s best Kendrick Lamar, and the...
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EP Review: The Wytches – Thunder Lizard’s Reprieve
After the success of their 2014 debut LP Annabel Dream Reader and a seemingly interminable run of live appearances, The Wytches return to our eardrums with a fresh batch of psychedelic post-punk on...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Destroyer – Poison Season
‘Destroyer’ is an unusual name for a band which doesn’t make music with pentangles on their album covers… but then Destroyer is not a conventional band. The Canadian outfit first released in 1996 and...
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Album Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry
Dream pop can often result in music all too literal: sleep inducing, painfully self-indulgent and reverb caked. As one of the leading trends in 21st century pop music, too much has fuzzy naval gazing...
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Mixtape Review: foster. – Free Lunch
Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres in music right now; the likes of Drake and Kanye West are some of the world’s most prominent celebrities, topping the charts and influencing material in genres...
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