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Music | Album Review – Tycho
Tycho Awake 4/5 Tycho’s latest album, Awake, sees the ambient producer strip back his sound and go back to basics. Gone are the sound effects of the ocean and the voice samples of his last […]
Music | Album review – MØ
MØ No Mythologies To Follow 4/5 Britain is currently in the midst of Scandi-fever. The death of Marius the giraffe aside, anything touched by Scandinavian hands is lapped up by the British public, and the […]
Music | Album review – Rick Ross
Rick Ross Mastermind 3/5 Mastermind is Rick Ross’ sixth album, and by this stage, the guy probably doesn’t need much of an introduction – he’s The Boss, the larger than life, bearded former correctional officer-turned […]
Music | Album review – We Are Scientists
We Are Scientists TV En Francais 3/5 Having not released a full length album in quite a few years now (the most recent release being the Business Casual EP last year), New York three-piece, We […]
Music | Album review – Major Lazer
Major Lazer Apocalypse Soon 3/5 Apocalypse Soon carries on Diplo’s mantra of making his music “feel like a party”, and if the island-inflected and insanely fun Free The Universe was the main event, then one year later this […]
Music | Album review – Foster the People
Foster the People Supermodel 3/5 Riding in on the same Nu-Wave movement which carried bands like MGMT and Phoenix, Foster the People’s dance-infused indie came to the music world’s attention with the catchy ’Pumped Up […]
Music | Album review – Arthur Beatrice
Arthur Beatrice Working Out 3/5 Arthur Beatrice, not a solo artist but rather a quartet of school friends from London, is a band that likes to be in control. They run their own label, Open […]
Music | Album review – Pharrell's G I R L
Pharrell G I R L 4/5 He’s dominated the charts, filthy rich, as popular as ever and yet Pharrell is still motivated enough to release his first solo album since 2006. It says a lot […]
Music | Album review – Schoolboy Q
Schoolboy Q Oxymoron 4/5 On ‘Control’, the infamous Big Sean track that featured Kendrick Lamar bluntly calling out the biggest names in hip-hop, we could hear Kendrick proclaiming in a mad, intentionally idiotic voice “I […]
Music | Album Review – Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire 2/5 Angel Olsen lets her captivating and emotive voice speak for itself from the very first track of her second feature length album. The scratchy, vinyl-like vocals are distorted yet […]
Music | Album Review – Wildbeasts
Wild Beasts Present Tense 4/5 After releasing three albums in four years, the Kendal four-piece put on the brakes for their latest endeavour, Present Tense; the result is a record that taps tastefully into contemporary […]