Harry Styles invites us into his house of love
Harry’s House – which comes three eventful years after 2019’s Fine Line – draws us deeply into the...
Category: ALBUM REVIEWS
Flume twists his trademarks on third LP ‘Palaces’
Globe-trotting electronic wizard Flume (Harley Streten on his passport) has shared that – like...
Florence Welch crushes, embodies the devil on divine new LP
The sacred and the profane do-si-do on Dance Fever, the superb new album from Florence + the...
Warpaint crush tyranny of distance on the magnetic ‘Radiate Like This’
With members continents apart during the pandemic, art-rockers Wapaint were forced to record their...
Arcade Fire’s sixth album is mind-meltingly brilliant
“You don’t get to choose/ Some you win, some you lose…“ Complex but never alienating,...
Belle and Sebastian show immortal finesse on 10th album
On their tenth album, Scottish indie-pop pioneers Belle and Sebastian continue to delight with...
Hermitude grind rhythm into starlight on ‘Mirror Mountain’
Hermitude’s seventh album soars through the craggy peaks and lush valleys of the revered...
Charlie Collins plumbs staggering emotional depths on ‘Undone’
“I think it’s time I let you go/ Gotta cut the rope, ‘cause you’re tied to someone new…” –...
Greta Stanley lands with one of the year’s great pop records
Every time I write Greta Stanley’s name, I write “Great”. But it’s not a mistake, because she has...
Röyksopp serve otherworldly dancefloor invaders on ‘Profound Mysteries’
This celebrated Scandinavian electro-pop duo – composed of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland –...
Fontaines D.C. simmer to perfection on the haunting ‘Skinty Fia’
Haunting, mournful and full of a simmering, relentless rage, Skinty Fia is an unravelling of...
Hatchie’s shimmering, blissful ‘Giving the World Away’ is the real deal
If Kylie had continued down the Indie Kylie path she explored on the Impossible Princess album,...
Daniel Johns presents Prince-like genius on new LP ‘FutureNever’
FutureNever sounds like a rock opera. That’s an easy description of Daniel Johns’ second solo...
Jack White’s new album is sickeningly good
Demented, distorted keys, primal-screeching guitars and strutting drums usher in Fear of the...
Wet Leg effortlessly revitalise indie rock on self-titled debut
British duo Wet Leg effortlessly revitalise rock music on their debut self-titled record,...
Father John Misty charms out of the gate on surprising new LP
On his fifth record, Josh Tillman (Father John Misty) offers his most sophisticated work to date,...
Feel the love as we track-by-track Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love!
Clocking in at over 70 minutes – 17 full-length tracks (culled from 50 recorded songs,...
PUP, ‘The Unraveling of PUPTheBand’ review
Marked by their always intriguing juxtaposition of darkly comedic lyrical work and joyfully...
Aldous Harding, ‘Warm Chris’ review
New Zealand musician Aldous Harding has always been difficult to pin down, a quality that feels...
Bakers Eddy, ‘Love Boredom Bicycles’ review
‘All gas, no breaks’ feels like the perfect way to describe the debut record from...
Xavier Rudd, ‘Jan Juc Moon’ review
“It seems the whole wide world has gone crazy,” Xavier Rudd notes on his 10th studio album. The...
Camp Cope, ‘Running with the Hurricane’ review
Camp Cope have never struggled to make beautiful, soaring music. They have an innate ability to...
Colin Hay, ‘Now and the Evermore’ review
Colin Hay once proclaimed he was “waiting for my real life to begin.” But on his 15th solo album,...
Charli XCX, ‘Crash’ review
On her fifth record, Charli XCX once more positions herself as one of the most interesting and...
Josh Pyke, ‘To Find Happiness’ review
Fun fact: Every Josh Pyke studio album has hit the Top 10, but he’s yet to score a number one....
ThornBird, ‘ThornBird’ review
The Waifs’ Vikki Thorn writes her own review in ThornBird’s opening track. “I can be tough,”...
Franz Ferdinand, ‘Hits to the Head’ review
Scotland’s finest indie rockers release their long-overdue greatest hits, 20 songs that strut the...
Rex Orange County, ‘WHO CARES?’ review
Y’know who cares? Rex Orange County. He cares very much. But in a paradoxical twist of the...
Alex Cameron, ‘Oxy Music’ review
On his fourth album, New York-based Australian Alex Cameron adopts the identity of an...
Hoodoo Gurus, ‘Chariot of the Gods’ review
The first Hoodoo Gurus album in 12 years starts with a scene-setter called Early Opener. It’s as...
