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Album Review: The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness
The Weeknd is, for me, a hit or miss artist. Real name Abel Tesfaye, the man has a unique sound and a strong voice but his 2011 mixtapes were mostly shallow, mistaking lewdness for sexiness and too...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Kagoule – Urth
Nottingham’s Kagoule are comfortably rising to prominence, set apart from a clutter of new bands that seem like recycled Nirvana groupies. If it isn’t Cai’s sore vocals and slick guitar that separates...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion
‘Call Me Maybe’ was, like it or otherwise, song of the summer 2012. Me personally; I was an ‘otherwise.’ While Jepsen seemed refreshingly humble alongside a circus of media-savvy peers and the song was...
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Album Review: Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
It would be easy to call Lana Del Rey all style and no substance. Actually I have been for five years; her image as a musician is impeccable, probably the best in the world right now – every image she...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Eagles of Death Metal – Zipper Down
Having not released anything since their third LP Heart On in 2008, the news of a new LP from Eagles of Death Metal in 2015 came as a surprise to many earlier this year. This latest effort, Zipper...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Wavves – V
The California surf rockers Wavves are back with a feisty fifth effort ingeniously entitled V. The band’s latest offering veers away from the pop-punk crossover that Warner Bros may have wanted from...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive
This joint project from Future and Drake represents the coming together of two of the biggest artists in hip-hop right now. Future himself had come off releasing 3 acclaimed projects culminating in the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Swim Deep – Mothers
Second albums are notoriously difficult to make, it’s a fact. Bands have to navigate their way around musical potholes and clichés to come up with something new. Following Swim Deep’s first album...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect
Protomartyr return with a third full-length effort, which is not only their best to date, but certainly one of the best of 2015. Since their inception as a band half a decade ago, the Detroit-based...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision
Upon first listen, Arms Around a Vision is all too easily dismissible. Pleasant enough, the overwhelmingly similarities track-to-track leave it undistinguishable as a work of it’s own. It’s only on...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
The second effort from Edinburgh’s The Spook School is exhilarating, thought-provoking and unashamedly brilliant. On 2013’s Dress Up, we heard the sound of a band still figuring out who they were;...
View ArticleAlbum Review: John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
Ever the alluringly spiky contrarian, John Grant heralded his third album with an unnerving promo vid. Pairing Sylvanian Family quaintness with The Shining, the video depicted blood-drenched Grant...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Whitey Morgan and the 78’s – Sonic Ranch
Country is one of western music’s most derided genres. It’s defined by its clichés: insular, beloved by one particular redneck portion of the US of A – it’s hardly surprising few want to dabble in its...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Janet Jackson – Unbreakable
Janet Jackson has been a pop icon for over 25 years with a discography to be envied. Unbreakable, her 11th studio album, was released shortly before the news of her nomination to be an inductee to the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Demi Lovato – Confident
Pop musician Demi Lovato has been no stranger to self-confidence issues; just a short time ago, Lovato very publicly addressed her on-going issues with addiction, mental illness, and self-harm....
View ArticleAlbum Review: Beach House – Thank Your Lucky Stars
Beach House (a.k.a Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) are a band that have been, if nothing else, remarkably consistent in their output. The duo had, until recently, released five albums of dependably...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
Over the last half a decade, each Deerhunter album appears to have coincided with a traumatic period in lead-singer Bradford Cox’s life. Their 2010 album Halycon Digest and Cox’s solo 2011 album...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Dan Friel – Life
Brooklyn-based American outsider house musician Dan Friel has been in the music-making game for quite some time; he self-released his first EP almost fifteen years ago. However, being a seasoned...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Leftfield – Alternative Light Source
In the sixteen years since the release of their last album ‘Rhythm and Stealth’ in 1999, the departure of co- founder Paul Daley and a 2005 ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation seemed to seal Leftfield’s fate...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Game – The Documentary 2
The decade long sequel to The Game’s breakthrough 2003 album The Documentary has been well appreciated by many critics but is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is it on the same level as his previous works...
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