To get a sense of how long Wire has been around let me tell you this – their first album came out two years before Thatcher became prime minister. Punk has died a thousand deaths […]
Short Movie by Laura Marling
Laura Marling moved to Los Angeles in 2013, shortly after the release of Once I Was An Eagle. During her time in America, she began work on new material only to scrap it – along with […]
Deeper by The Soft Moon
In this latest album from The Soft Moon, we see the man in the moon, Luis Vasquez, opening himself up emotionally for all to see. Deeper is the result of intense self-reflection and emotional exploration […]
The Air Conditioned Nightmare by Doldrums
In her 2010 RBMA Lecture, gender-equality activist DJ Sprinkles spoke about her interest in the rarity of electronic music in America in the 70s and 80s. Artists such as Devo and Gary Numan, huge influences on her […]
Undertow by Drenge
Drenge kick-started its musical life as a sort of anti-rock act: a bass guitar-less brotherly duo from the Peak District who rose to prominence through a Labour MP’s resignation letter. Rock ‘n’ roll. In spite […]
Control by Fyfe
It is a seldom and rare occurrence for a debut album to carry as much purpose as Fyfe’s mesmerising Control. With inspiring authority, Fyfe attacks from the deep blue recesses of our minds and consumes […]
Projections by Romare
Footsteps echo down a corridor as synthesised waves rise uniformly from the cloudy day outside, at some point becoming indistinguishable from the drops of water that bounce from the windows. Rising, falling, rising again; taking […]
We Slept At Last by Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman’s debut album has finally arrived, marking an incredibly promising start for the 23 year old solo artist. Coming after three years of hard graft, in whcih se teamed up with the likes of […]
The Subways by The Subways
I’m unashamed to say that The Subways provided the soundtrack to my awkward early teenage years, and with their new album I hoped they could soundtrack my awkward early adulthood too. The Subways did not […]
Panda Bear ‘Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper’ Album Review
The latest solo album from Noah Lennox – AKA Panda Bear, one quarter of the Animal Collective – sounds something like a combination of his previous two efforts. There’s the same washed out, percussive psychedelia […]
Ariel Pink ‘Pom Pom’ Album Review
It’s never wise to judge a book by its cover but with Ariel Pink’s Pom Pom, you at least have a good inkling of what you are letting yourself in for. Usually when the cover […]
Bryan Ferry ‘Avonmore’ Album Review
I’ve always thought Bryan Ferry’s music sounds like the score of the Miami vice TV show. The brooding ‘Loop de Li’ with its snippets of saxophone and funk guitars and the action-film lyrics of “I’m […]