Album Reviews

Album Reviews 25 Oct 2020

Album Review: Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (P...

A welcome return to form for virtual virtuosity from Damon Albarn

Interviews Album Reviews 01 Oct 2020

Album Review and Interview: The Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever (Ro...

Good Luck With Whatever is quintessentially Dawes. It may be their best yet.

Album Reviews 30 Sep 2020

Album Review: Stretch - Our Dreams are Changing (self-release)

Aotearoa's dark-folk troubadour releases his sophomore album

Album Reviews 26 Sep 2020

Album Review: Andrea Keller - Life is Brut [if] al (self-released)

A rare five stars awarded for highest quality and originality

Album Reviews 25 Sep 2020

Album Review: IDLES - Ultra Mono (Partisan Records/Liberator Music)

There is no escaping the intensity of this wild ride of an album

Album Reviews 24 Sep 2020

Album Review: Wax Chattels - Clot (Flying Nun and Captured Tracks)

Drawing on a mixture of post-punk and droning space sounds, think Doctor Who on crack

Album Reviews 17 Sep 2020

Album Review: Jess Gillam - Time (Decca)

Saxophone wunderkind releases a spacious album

Interviews Album Reviews 16 Sep 2020

Album Review and Interview: A Swayze & The Ghosts - Paid Salvation ...

Paid Salvation has the raw power, contemporary perspective but retro sound of this unashamedly angry group of young men in a hurry.

Album Reviews 13 Sep 2020

Album Review: Artemis - Artemis (Blue Note)

Jazz supergroup deliver debut album

Album Reviews 11 Sep 2020

Album Review: Troy Kingi & The Clutch - The Ghost of Freddie Cesar ...

Troy Kingi revives his fathers ghost in the 4th of ten albums of a different genre, out today.

Album Reviews 02 Sep 2020

Album Review: Toni Braxton - Spell My Name (Island)

Love songs that are unimaginative, unfeeling and un-everything

Album Reviews 02 Sep 2020

Album Review: Another Sky - I Slept On The Floor (Fiction)

Different, demanding even . . . but certainly commanding.

Album Reviews 01 Sep 2020

Album Review: The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public (4AD)

They still sound more pleased with themselves than they should be

Album Reviews 29 Aug 2020

Album Review: Tigran Hamasayan - The Call Within (Warners/Nonesuch)

A vast cosmology from this Armenian jazz composer

Album Reviews 27 Aug 2020

Album Review: Diggy Dupé - That's Me, That's Team (Independent/DRM)

Diggy Dupé new album out today, August 28th

Album Reviews 27 Aug 2020

Album Review: Baauer: Planet's Mad (LuckyMe)

Harlem Shake DJ and Producer's second studio album

Album Reviews 25 Aug 2020

Album Review: Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)

Break-up home truths laid bare in an album of just voice and guitar

Album Reviews 24 Aug 2020

Album Review: Nina Simone - Fodder On My Wings (Universal)

The revival of an obscure but intimate album by the revered High Priestess of Soul