Album Review: Superfood – Bambino
As summer fades, the return of Superfood with album number two, Bambino, dishes out a hearty burst of flavour to illuminate the upcoming colder months. A few years on since their debut record, this time around ...
Album Review: Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Arcade Fire’s lack of subtlety is paradoxically one of the most appealing things about them. There are precious few bands today who can balance musical artistry with grandiose appeals to unity and earnest emoti...
Album Review: Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
Tyler the Creator is a bit of an enigma. Maybe its due to him being almost as renowned for his image and tweets, which are often vile and hysterical in equal measure yet give little away about the person beneat...
Album Review: Sheer Mag – Need To Feel Your Love
‘Need to Feel Your Love’ is a debut showcasing not only Sheer Mag’s prolific experience from their time governing the American DIY punk scene, but also their open influence from funk and pop in conjunction with...
Album Review: Mura Masa – Mura Masa
Mura Masa’s debut has been a long time coming. With hits flying out of his factory, Alex Crossan is no stranger to collaborations that create a whirlwind of electronically-infused beats combined with pop melodi...
Album Review: Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol.1
While not for everyone, Calvin Harris is a master of what he does. One of the pioneers of festival-ready EDM, his insane amount of chart-dominating singles make him a precursor to today’s streaming culture wher...
Album Review: Floating Points – Reflections – Mojave Desert
Sam Shepherd - aka Floating Points - prefaced this new release with a film in which he discusses how this entire collection of tracks was recorded in the eponymous Mojave Desert. While already known for his exp...
Album Review: Alt-J – Relaxer
Emerging in 2007 as a group of lads from Leeds, famously named after the mac keyboard shortcut, Alt-J graced our presence with their debut Mercury and Ivor Novello Award-winning ‘An Awesome Wave’ back in 2012. ...
Album Review: The Amazons – The Amazons
Reading boys The Amazons have been stirring up a lot of attention recently. Being shortlisted for the BBC’s Sound of 2017 poll and receiving a nomination for Q’s Best Breakthrough Act has stood them in good ste...
Album Review: Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
We last heard from our favourite goof-rocker Mac DeMarco two years ago with the release of the mini-LP Another One and its following demo version. It was back in 2014 however that we last received a proper albu...