Album Review: Declan McKenna – Zeros
Declan McKenna’s second album, Zeros, is both retro and futuristic, heavily influenced by seventies icons but delivered with an intergalactic punch.
“What do you think about the rocket I built?” McKenna sing...
The VLM Playlist: August 2020
It has been particularly fruitful in the debut album department this August with a number of fearsome first records materialising. Alex the Astronaut blew us away with her stellar debut The Theory of Absolutely...
Album Review: The Magic Gang – Death of the Party
After the release of their self titled debut in 2018, Brighton's The Magic Gang were riding a wave of plaudits going into the recording of their second album Death of the Party. While their optimism may have be...
Smashing Pumpkins Return with Two New Tracks
The Smashing Pumpkins have returned with two new eighties-influenced tracks, ‘Cyr’ and ‘The Colour of Love’.
The two tracks are set to feature on their upcoming eleventh album which will follow from 2018's, ...
Album Review: BLOXX – Lie Out Loud
BLOXX have released their debut album Lie Out Loud, an immediate firecracker of a record, consisting of twelve tracks, all produced to a high standard. Frontwoman Ophelia 'Fee' Booth and her divine vocals have ...
Album Review: Disclosure – ENERGY
Disclosure (brothers, Guy and Howard Lawrence) have always been ingenious when it comes to dance music and club culture. ENERGY is their first studio album since 2015's Caracal, and it is testament to the broth...
Album Review: The Lemon Twigs – Songs for the General Public
After a few hurdles, The Lemon Twigs have finally released the long awaited Songs for the General Public. The Long Island brothers pushed back the release of the album and commented that ‘good things come to t...
Album Review: Bully – SUGAREGG
Released through Sub Pop records SUGAREGG will be added to a list of infamous album releases under the label including Nirvana's Bleach, Foals' Total Life Forever, and Mudhoney's self-titled debut. Bully really...
Album Review: The Front Bottoms – In Sickness & In Flames
If The Front Bottoms were recording in the nineties, they could have been the tree-dwelling music duo (Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkinsin) in the cult classic film, ‘There’s Something About Mary’. They would ...
Alex The Astronaut: An Australian Songwriter Versus the Universe
From the time of our conversation, it is T minus nine days from the launch of Alex the Astronaut’s debut album, The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (released 21 August). The Australian musician (real name, Alex Ly...