The Colorado singer returns for his third album and is as weird and unsettling as before. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure is full of trippy electronic hooks and oddly depressing lyrics. It strikes a balance between […]
Holding Hands With Jamie by Girl Band
Girl Band have a formula. Abrasive, raucous energy with apathetic deadpan vocals added on top – the formula is a winning one. Holding Hands With Jamie, Girl Band’s eagerly awaited debut album from Rough Trade […]
In Dream by Editors
A spectrum of emotion and sound is unveiled immediately by post-punk band Editors in the first two songs of In Dream – the hauntingly macabre darkwave of ‘No Harm’ is shortly uplifted by the infectiously […]
Dodge And Burn by The Dead Weather
After the release of their first two albums and a five-year hiatus, The Dead Weather’s Dodge and Burn is the next step in Jack White’s search for relevancy. Despite their first two albums being noticeably […]
Double Down by Darwin Deez
Listening to the latest installation to Darwin Deez’s discography, Double Down, we are presented with an album of contrasts. The wacky yet wonderful compositions; relentless pace shackled by an overall subdued feel; and the disparity […]
Pagans In Vegas by Metric
“Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night” Chuck Palahniuk once wrote. A view shared by tycoon Steve Wynn, who states Las Vegas is how God would do it if he […]
Honeymoon by Lana Del Rey
Five years on from her self-titled debut, Lana Del Rey is already onto her fourth album. Honeymoon sees Lana continue down the road of Hollywood heartbreak, a seamless thematic transition from the critically acclaimed Ultraviolence. […]
GO:OD AM by Mac Miller
GO:OD AM marks a significant shift in the career of Mac Miller. Despite his first studio album Blue Slide Park reaching top spot on the Billboard 200, the first independently produced album to do so […]
Slime Season by Young Thug
Mixtapes are a different animal to LPs; there isn’t really stylistic or narrative coherence. Each track has to be treated as if it were some sort of standalone demo, a half developed idea that wouldn’t […]
Didn’t He Ramble by Glen Hansard
It was the academy award winning song ‘Falling Slowly’ and all of its wistful, desperate beauty that first introduced many to Glen Hansard, but the Irish artist has always been a prolific songwriter. Whether as […]
Me by Empress Of
An uncompromised vision of the self, resulting in this stunning experimental electro pop work. Empress Of, aka songwriter Lorely Rodriguez, delivers an introspective dream of an album debut. Emerging onto the musical scene in 2012 […]
Oh Wonder by Oh Wonder
London based duo Oh Wonder tapped into something spectacular last year, announcing they would release a single on the first day of the month for a year before releasing their debut album. Last attempted over […]