Near To The Wild Heart of Life is Japandroids fourth studio album. This band from Vancouver allows their Canadian heritage to shine proudly in its lyrics, like a less cheesy version of Robin Sparkles. This […]
A Modern Ruin? Open Letter to Frank Carter
Dear Frank Carter, What happened to you? I remember back in 2009 when your band Gallows released one of my favourite hardcore albums of all time, Grey Britain. I remember listening to it on repeat […]
Yesterday’s Gone by Loyle Carner
I can distinctly remember my first experience of Loyle Carner, buying a ticket on a friend’s recommendation to catch him late 2015 at Leeds’s very own Headrow House. Still relatively unknown at this point, his […]
Future Politics by Austra
Many artists aim for the dizzy heights of the XX when making minimalist, atmospheric music and fall dreadfully close to making GCSE music compositions. Austra, with their Florence and the Machine sounding vocals and beautifully […]
Georgia Pine by Broken Witt Rebels
Broken Witt Rebels’ Georgia Pine is a two finger “fuck you” to anyone that says guitar music is dead. Every minute from the slow pine of ‘Susie’ to the adrenalin pumping ‘Guns’ oozes Kings of […]
Hang by Foxygen
Californian duo Foxygen have always had a reputation for being theatrical, a little bit eccentric and obsessed with the glitz and glamour of the past. Their latest record Hang is no different. Hang sounds like […]
Local Leeds: Milk of Magnesia by Jellyskin
On the 19th of January, local Leeds psych trio, Jellyskin, released their much anticipated single, ‘Milk of Magnesia’. Complete of vocalist/keyboardist, Zia, drummer, Olly and Guitarist, Will, the band’s new track is a perfect example […]
Apocalypstick by Cherry Glazerr
Cherry Glazerr’s second album warbles somewhere between lazy-guitar synth pop and the spikey post-punk of The Slits, marrying both in a hazy, adolescent mess. The band have definitely matured since their debut Haxel Princess, written […]
Night People by You Me At Six
My eyebrows automatically rise when a band are insisting that their new music is “really different”. I immediately suspect that it will only be more of the same – especially when their last album brought […]
Migration by Bonobo
Bonobo’s new album Migration is perfect… As background music. Although I probably shouldn’t admit this, I listened to Migration while doing other things important things on my post-exam-to-do-list: reclining a lot, sampling a Cadbury’s milk […]
No Plan EP by David Bowie
The Starman briefly pops back from the grave bearing new music to celebrate his seventieth birthday. This new Bowie EP consists of Blackstar’s ‘Lazarus’ and three unreleased tracks from the Blackstar recording sessions with producer […]
I See You by The xx
The day before the release of I See You, the band teased their fans hourly with a Facebook live stream of one of their new songs; not only was this ingenious and creative marketing, but it […]