Clipping, ‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ review
An ominous boom opens the second instalment in Clipping’s horrorcore series, an indication that...
Category: ALBUM REVIEWS
Nothing But Thieves, ‘Moral Panic’ review
Opener Unperson barnstorms in with Conor Mason’s intense delivery conjuring RATM-level fury:...
Ela Minus, ‘Acts of Rebellion’ review
Earlier this year Ela Minus performed a live streamed set from her studio space in Bogotá. A...
Ball Park Music, ‘Ball Park Music’ review
Ball Park Music are groove gurus: they find one magnetic vertebrae and then let it scuttle loose,...
Bruce Springsteen, ‘Letter to You’ review
A couple of months ago, a Springsteen fan was adamant that a new album was on the way. “It’s...
The Mountain Goats, ‘Getting Into Knives’ review
This album’s title evokes the kind of YouTube esoterica one finds oneself deep within when...
Gorillaz, ‘Song Machine Season One: Strange Timez’ review
“It’s one of the best albums I’ve ever made,” Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn declares of Song...
Adrianne Lenker, ‘songs and instrumentals’ review
With no touring prospects in sight, Big Thief vocalist and songwriter Adrianne Lenker bunkered...
Tommy Lee, ‘Andro’ review
A record divided into two sides, Andro represents male and female energy: opener Knock Me Down...
Machinedrum, ‘A View of U’ review
Cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz once walked around the same city block 11 times. Each time...
Foals, ‘Collected Reworks Vol. 2’ review
Not just for Foals trainspotters, Collected Reworks offers wildly diverse and hypnotic takes on...
Mariah Carey, ‘The Rarities’ review
To celebrate 30 years in the music industry, Mariah has been unleashing weekly #MC30 treats every...
Future Islands, ‘As Long As You Are’ review
With their first release in three years, Baltimore’s Future Islands stun once again with their...
Melanie C, ‘Melanie C’ review
Melanie Chisholm has spent the years since her life in the Spice World figuring out who she is...
Casey Burgess, ‘Space to Breathe’ review
Casey Burgess sounds like a young artist who was a Savage Garden fan when she was growing up. Her...
Cosmo’s Midnight, ‘Yesteryear’ review
Besides a testament to how restrictions can stoke innovation, the music video for Yesteryear...
Japandroids, ‘Massey F-cking Hall’ review
The premise of Japandroids’ records is living, loving, and dying in ways larger than life....
Angie McMahon, ‘Piano Salt’ EP review
Angie McMahon’s Salt was one of 2019’s great albums, showcasing an emerging star. Unable to tour...
Sufjan Stevens, ‘The Ascension’ review
After the stripped-back indie folk of 2015’s Carrie and Lowell, Sufjan Stevens returns to a...
Didirri, ‘Sold for Sale’ review
“Start the parade,” Didirri Peters sings at the beginning of his second EP, “as the sky turns...
Robert Plant, ‘Digging Deep: Subterranea’ review
Strictly a solo affair, this 2CD, 30-song collection includes tracks from Plant’s 11 solo...
Roisin Murphy, ‘Roisin Machine’ review
“I feel my story’s still untold/ But I’ll make my own happy ending/ I guess...
Various, ‘Looking Through A Glass Onion: The Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966 – 1972’ review
The arrival in the late 1960s of the psychedelic and progressive era – when rock started to take...
IDLES, ‘Ultra Mono’ review
England’s punk saviours IDLES return with album number three, bursting straight out of the cannon...
Keith Urban, ‘The Speed of Now Part 1’ review
Some beats, then some banjo. So starts Keith Urban’s most musically adventurous outing yet, a...
Savouring soundtracks: five of the best
There’s something very special about reliving films through their soundtracks; whether they’re...
Arlo McKinley, ‘Die Midwestern’ review
Cincinnati, Ohio-based singer-songwriter Arlo McKinley was the last artist signed by John Prine to...
Marilyn Manson, ‘We Are Chaos’ review
Sinister throbbing. “I will cover the Earth in honey and everyone will eat...
Vika & Linda, ‘Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso)’ review
“Gospel music is about miracles,” said American critic Dave Marsh. After celebrating their first...
San Cisco, ‘Between You and Me’ review
This is San Cisco’s fourth album, but they still sound fresh and full of youthful exuberance....
