ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 SEPTEMBER 2026

7ebra   How To Land A Plane   An album that showcases the hookiest and most layered songwriting of their career so far, full of buzzing synths and insistent beats. William D Drake            Moulded By Industry   Moving on from his nine years of pianistic and compositional duties in Cardiacs, Drake’s solo work has been known for its […]
In 1995, The Yummy Fur debuted with a ten-track, seven-minute long, 7” inch EP called ‘Music by Walt Disney But Played by Yuri Gagarin Thus a Political Record.’ After many further singles and two albums in the 1990s, they release their first new music after a 28-year hiatus. That debut title contains an important hint […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE YUMMY FUR: EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER

ALBUM REVIEW – PALACE: OX

Palace’s fifth studio album, Ox, is a record preoccupied with the strange temporal dislocation of fatherhood; the experience of standing simultaneously at the beginning of someone else’s life and at the far end of one’s own childhood. Released through the band’s independent label, Palace Presents, Ox is less a conventional collection of songs than a […]
There’s very little about Gurriers that feels restrained. From the moment you press play on any of their tracks, it feels like you’re being thrown into the middle of something already in motion. The guitars collide, the drums race your chest forward, and the band’s explosive angst is impossible to ignore. On their latest album […]

ALBUM REVIEW – GURRIERS: NOBODY’S COMING TO SAVE YOU

ALBUM REVIEW – SUEDE: COMING UP

Can an album continue to sound as fresh as it did upon release an entire 30 years later? Suede are proving it can with the 30th anniversary reissue of their seminal 1996 album Coming Up. An album made with the end goal of “ten hits” could go either way, a cringe-inducing 90s throwback or a […]
Celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, Baba Zula continue to seek out new approaches to music making that is marked by a refreshing unwillingness to repeat themselves. Describing themselves as sound warriors, their latest album, ‘XXX’, also reflects a willingness to confront environmental crisis and question the commodification of public life. Via email, Murat Ertel (electric saz, […]

INTERVIEW – BABA ZULA

ALBUM REVIEW – BABA ZULA: XXX

Turkish psych has become a more familiar genre in recent years, its sonorous use of electric saz giving a distinct take on Western rock music. While that style is now easily recognisable, over the course of three decades Baba Zula has been determined to push it into way more adventurous, experimental and rhythmical territory. A […]
As the title would suggest, the latest offering from bedroom-pop mage SOFY offers a charming playbook on not just how to perform magic, but how to continuously source and bottle it with delicious musical density. The whole project feels entirely reminiscent of something a sparrow would pick up, with robust breakbeats and scraps of percussion […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SOFY: HOW TO PERFORM MAGIC

LIVE REVIEW – BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: MANCHESTER ACADEMY – 13/09/2026

Broken Social Scene are less of a band and more of a family. That is simply one of the best ways to describe their dynamic. Over thirty years ago founding members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning met in 1999, since then they have been collecting members, with the latest addition being Hannah Gerogas who joined […]
The back bar and merch area of St Michael’s affords a good overview of the room: This former church, now bathed in lush – even sacrilegious – red light still has the raised stage, the alter. And it forms the perfect environment for this latest meeting of the Mull Historical Society. But do not be […]

LIVE REVIEW – MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: HALLE ST MICHAEL’S – 17/09/2026