The Black Sorrows, ‘Citizen John’ review
Citizen John is an upstanding gentleman: sophisticated and classy, though occasionally...
Category: ALBUM REVIEWS
Devin Townsend, ‘Empath’ review
Devin Townsend is an innovator and a composer who will be remembered centuries after his passing....
Dean Lewis, ‘A Place We Knew’ review
You couldn’t escape Dean Lewis’ Be Alright in 2018. Spending five weeks at number one, while also...
Nilufer Yanya, ‘Miss Universe’ review
Nilüfer Yanya’s debut sounds like the victory lap of a champion who left the competition...
The Ocean Party, ‘Nothing Grows EP’ review
Creativity is a communal activity. Together The Ocean Party have spent the better part of a decade...
Karen O and Danger Mouse, ‘Lux Prima’ review
When two of the biggest names in music get together, you know that the ensuing result is going to...
Huntly, ‘Low Grade Buzz’ review
In Huntly’s words, a ‘low grade buzz’ is the existential crisis that comes with...
Townes Van Zandt, ‘Sky Blue’ review
Townes Van Zandt, one of the most influential and respected songwriters of our time, passed away...
Foals, ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1’ review
The first of two albums to come this year from English lads Foals might be themed around the bleak...
SASAMI, ‘SASAMI’ review
Sometimes in your newsfeed you stumble across one of those articles: ‘Sixteen or seventeen...
Stella Donnelly, ‘Beware of the Dogs’ review
On her debut Beware Of The Dogs, Western Australian musician Stella Donnelly has created an album...
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, ‘Coldwater DFU’ review
Mick Thomas travelled to Coldwater, Mississippi to make this album, his first in seven years. The...
Amanda Palmer, ‘There Will Be No Intermission’ review
There Will Be No Intermission is easily Amanda Palmer’s boldest work to date From the cover of...
Bryan Adams, ‘Shine a Light’ review
Bryan Adams has perfected the popstar-as-paternal-figure pose, sounding on his 14th album like...
Weezer, ‘The Black Album’ review
Locating Weezer’s convictions among 25 years of impish experiments has been tough, but they’ve...
Queensryche, ‘The Verdict’ review
Queensryche continue to enjoy their reversal of fortunes since removing vocalist Geoff Tate from...
Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show, ‘The Really Really Really Really Boring Album’ review
Regurgitator have always been perverse purveyors of pop, so a children’s album… Why not?...
Dream Theater, ‘Distance Over Time’ review
Dream Theater are arguably the world’s greatest progressive metal band. The accolades are...
Hilltop Hoods, ‘The Great Expanse’ review
The loco-successful 2016 Restrung album and tour have nestled Hilltop Hoods in the veritable...
Stephen Cummings, ‘Prisoner of Love’ review
It’s ridiculous that Stephen Cummings is not in the ARIA Hall of Fame. For more than four decades...
Julia Jacklin, ‘Crushing’ review
We’re taller when we wake up in the morning. For hours our spines are spared the pressures...
Ariana Grande, ‘thank u, next’ review
Last year’s Sweetener made a little room for vintage Grande heartbreak jams, but for the most part...
Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, ‘The Words of Men’ review
Deborah Conway’s ‘greatest hits’ album, Only The Bones, came with a kicker on the back...
Avril Lavigne, ‘Head Above Water’ review
Having cycled through several reinventions since 2002’s ubiquitous Complicated, Head Above Water...
Mercury Rev, ‘Bobbie Gentry’s Delta Sweete Revisited’ review
Bobbie Gentry is famously known for her intriguing narrative that is Ode To Bille Joe –...
The Cat Empire, ‘Stolen Diamonds’ review
“Tell me where I’m going or where I’m being led,” sings Felix Riebl at the start of The Cat...
Dear Seattle, ‘Don’t Let Go’ review
On the surface, Don’t Let Go may appear as another surf-rock-grunge album – a larrikin spirit that...
Panda Bear, ‘Buoys’ review
Panda Bear is not a trained scuba diver. But there he was, on tour with his Animal Collective...
Mavis Staples, ‘Live in London’ review
Soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples, who’ll be appearing at Bluesfest in April, possesses...
Brian Cadd, ‘Silver City’ review
I thought Brian Cadd’s 2016 album, Bulletproof, was the finest of his storied career. Silver City...
