Album Review: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
“Head is the answer, head is the future…” – This line, featured in ‘untitled 04’ and ‘untitled 07’, encapsulates Kendrick Lamar’s musical mindset over the past couple years, and this mindset is...
View ArticleLive Review: Heck, Rescue Rooms (11/03/16)
Walking into Rescue Rooms, one immediately became aware of the gravity of this show for everyone involved in Heck as well as everyone that had any interest in seeing the band succeed. This was the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Iggy Pop is the last of the iconic seventies art-rock heroes. There’s that iconic image of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy together in their youth, and for many the pantheon really starts and ends with...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Zayn Malik – Mind of Mine
The English singer and songwriter Zayn Malik, that many may know from a famous band known as One Direction has just hit us with his first solo album. The 23 year old vocalist released a couple of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: BJ The Chicago Kid – Into My Mind
BJ the Chicago Kid, as you may have guessed, is a Chicago native. He learnt how to sing and play instruments in church and as a result, has developed an extremely soulful voice that has graced many rap...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Raleigh Ritchie – You’re A Man Now, Boy
I first came across Raleigh Ritchie through watching Game of Thrones in which he plays the fearless slave warrior Grey Worm. However, one day a friend of mine pointed out that he was also a recording...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come to Expect
Back in 2008, Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and former Rascals/ Little Flames frontman Miles Kane released The Age of the Understatement, under the band name The Last Shadow Puppets. Eight years...
View ArticleAlbum Review: TWENTY88 – TWENTY88
TWENTY88 is the name of the duo that features Big Sean and Jhene Aiko, and the self-titled album dropped on the first of this month. It was no April Fools joke, so one must applaud their secrecy with...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance
In November of last year, Parquet Courts released Monastic Living, an E.P. which at times felt grating and inaccessible. After the critical success of their first albums, this 2015 release seemed like...
View ArticleAlbum Review: PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
PJ Harvey spent a number of years preparing for her latest record. Alongside photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy, the English musician travelled to Afghanistan, Kosovo and certain parts of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: M83 – Junk
Snobbery is a strange thing in music. Many of those guilty of it also tend to be the ones most vehemently speaking against it. ‘Cool’ is another facet of culture for which a project is often debased...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Beyoncé – Lemonade
Following her 2014 self-titled visual album, on Sunday night Beyoncé Carter gave us her sixth studio album, Lemonade. The LP arrived with a short film and was framed as, as the TIDAL statement that...
View ArticleEP Review: Avelino – FYO
“It’s AV!” Avelino is arguably the most talented wordsmith in the UK right now and this 5 track EP FYO is proof. If you disagree I’ll have to refer you to the name of the EP. Avelino has been around...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Frisco – System Killer
I have a confession to make. While I might’ve been screaming BBK since 2008 when the streets were flooded with BBK and Star In The Hood T-shirts, I really haven’t been interested in all of their...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Drake – Views
Canadian rapper Drake released his fourth album over the weekend, featuring a variety of artists from across musical genres. This is the most alternative out of all the material he has released in the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Skepta – Konnichiwa
Konnichiwa. It’s finally here. After years of waiting and a previous release date of March 1st 2015, Skepta has delivered a piece which brings the energy of grime while also touching on his personal...
View ArticleTrack Review: Chance The Rapper –‘Blessings’
Chance the Rapper graced Jimmy Fallon’s stage earlier this month with a great performance of his new single ‘Blessings’ ahead of his latest release, tentatively titled Chance 3. As always, his right...
View ArticleAlbum Review: James Blake – The Colour In Anything
Enriched by gorgeous watercolour artwork from veteran illustrator and namesake Quentin, The Colour In Anything is James Blake’s much awaited, seventy-minute, return. Professed favourite of Kanye West,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Julianna Barwick – Will
As a complete newcomer to Julianna Barwick’s music, I decided to avoid doing any background research on the Louisiana-born musician. I imagined that I’d be able to approach her latest record, Will,...
View ArticleAlbum Review: White Lung – Paradise
I’ve always thought White Lung sound a little bit like The Subways, and maybe Hole – some of the vocal melodies seem almost interchangeable. It’s not a strong resemblance and no rip off, but somewhere...
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