Wolf & Cub, ‘NIL’ review
Keep a keen eye on the speedometer when listening to Wolf & Cub’s fourth album while...
Category: ALBUM REVIEWS
Lachy Doley, ‘Double Figures’ review
Hammond Organ virtuoso Lachy Doley – who honed his craft as a session player with Powderfinger,...
Shemekia Copeland, ‘Uncivil War’ review
Fusing her blues roots with R&B and American folk, must-be-heard singer-songwriter Shemekia...
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, ‘K.G.’ review
Every King Gizzard review now reads as recycled: they’re a “prolific” “psych-rock” band from...
Delta Goodrem, ‘Only Santa Knows’ review
Opening on an uber-haunting version of the already spooky Carol of the Bells, it’s...
Something for Kate, ‘The Modern Medieval’ review
Paul Dempsey knows how to craft a multi-layered masterpiece. His songs are beautifully constructed...
AC/DC, ‘PWR/UP’ review
Some thought the show was over – but AC/DC will never die. After the death of big brother Malcolm,...
Nick Cave, ‘Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace’ review
Described by Cave as “… a prayer into the void… a souvenir from a strange and...
The Cribs, ‘Night Network’ review
On the brink of breakup, this Yorkshire punk-rock trio put legal woes aside to create their first...
Gregor, ‘Destiny’ review
Leonardo Da Vinci had a formula for painting buildings: “To make one appear more distant...
Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald, ‘Push The Blues Away’ review
Push The Blues Away: The title refers to the feeling, not the genre, as this album is a glorious...
Hachiku, ‘I’ll Probably Be Asleep’ review
I’ll Probably be Asleep is the debut from Melbourne-based Hachiku, led by songwriter Anika...
Kylie Minogue, ‘DISCO’ review
It must’ve been strange for Kylie to return to dance music during lockdown, not least because she...
Brad Cox, ‘My Mind’s Projection’ review
In a recent QLD tour vlog, Bad Cox shows off the kind of endearingly erratic clowning which...
Midnight Oil, ‘The Makarrata Project’ review
This mini-album – Midnight Oil’s first collection of originals in 18 years – can be seen as a...
Sam Smith, ‘Love Goes’ review
Written throughout their late twenties, a period during which Smith reckoned publicly for the...
Mr. Bungle, ‘The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo’ review
Words | Tom Raucous If you were like me in the ’90s – obsessed with Mr. Bungle (and all...
Clipping, ‘Visions of Bodies Being Burned’ review
An ominous boom opens the second instalment in Clipping’s horrorcore series, an indication that...
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...
