Xen is not Zen, though it’s easy to see why you’d think it might be. It’s rare that an electronic producer dares to condense their ideas. For a long time I held a sincere belief […]
‘Hesitant Alien’ Album Review
Is this really the poster boy for emo-rock that we all came to know and love? Gerard Way’s debut solo album Hesitant Alien sheds the emo exterior for a strangely joyful ode to Brit-Pop. Free […]
Ben Howard Album Review
A slap in the face, the kind that rips you from some sedated slumber and presents you with absolute clarity. That’s what hits you 3 minutes and 27 seconds into the haunting experience of Ben […]
SBTRKT Album Review
“I got a baseball bat, never hit a homerun” croons Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig over Wonder Where We Land’s lead single ‘NEW DORP, NEW YORK’. As a metaphor, this couldn’t be more fitting for the […]
Parkay Quarts Album Review
Touted as an “in-between-albums-album”, Content Nausea is the work of Andrew Savage and Austin Brown of Parquet Courts. Parkay Quarts isn’t a side-project to extol some demons that wouldn’t fly in the band, but more […]
Johnny Marr ‘Playland’ Album Review
Johnny Marr is without a doubt a legend. As guitarist and co-songwriter of the Smiths, Marr helped take over and mould the world of 80’s indie-rock. Although much less headline-driven than Smiths band-mate Morrissey, Marr’s […]
Weezer Album Review ‘Everything Will Be Alright in the End’
Weezer’s last attempts at cementing themselves on the alternative rock ladder were met with mixed reviews, and rightly so. Their collaboration with Lil’ Wayne on 2009’s Raditude clearly wasn’t helping the cause. Fortunately, producer Ric […]
Kindness ‘Otherness’ Album Review
Kindness’s new album Otherness is pure angsty funk. If the sentimental track titles are anything to go by, he has clearly had a lot on his mind; ‘Why Don’t You Love Me’, ‘Who Do You […]
In The Middle review Thom Yorke ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’
Thom Yorke’s latest is pretty hard to get at. Downloading the album takes a bit more effort than just pressing ‘buy’ on iTunes as it’s only available as a BitTorrent Bundle. Yorke has described this […]
Caribou ‘Our Love’ Album Review
Dan Snaith aka Daphni aka Caribou has dabbled with a plethora of genres over the last decade, all his work proving a childlike playfulness as he tampers and manipulates melodic beats and sounds. Setting the […]
You’re Dead! review
Originally created as the antidote to the epidemic that is ‘Starbucks jazz’, You’re Dead! is undoubtedly the most potent anaesthetic of all time. Instantly soothing, the sounds of an orchestra warming up ease you into Steven […]
Music | In The Middle review Luke Sital-Singh ‘The Fire Inside’
Being dubbed the Sound of 2014 is both a privilege and a burden. Unfortunately, for Luke Sital-Singh, who has remained in the spotlight since 2012’s breakout EP Fail For You, the weight of the accolade […]