ALBUM REVIEW – BLOSSOMS: SONGS FROM THE WEDDING CAKE

A decade after their debut, Blossoms are already releasing their sixth album, Songs From The Wedding Cake. Following the success of 2024’s Gary and bringing them on their first arena tour of the UK, Songs From The Wedding Cake is pre-emptively proving to be an important release for the band. If there is one thing […]
Cat Stevens, a name that transcends just folk music. Over a vast career, the man has experimented with different ways to reach his audience, mainly with varying styles of folk, but sometimes the rock shines through, or even small hints of jazz too. Buddha And The Chocolate Box is good example of Stevens taking an […]

ALBUM REVIEW – YUSUF/CAT STEVENS: BUDDHA AND THE CHOCOLATE BOX

ALBUM REVIEW KEO: PUT A SMILE ON FOR ME

‘Put A Smile On For Me’ is destined to make a dent in this current indie/alternative movement. London-rooted band Keo have fed the fans what they have yearned for, an eleven-track album of Keo wearing their hearts on their sleeve. Known for their raw emotional performances that cut deep into hearts nationwide, this album could […]
Kodaline are an Irish alternative rock band from Dublin, made up of Steve Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Jason Boland and Vinnie May. First emerging as 21 Demands before becoming Kodaline in 2011, the band quickly made a name for themselves with their emotionally charged, guitar-led sound. Their 2012 single ‘High Hopes’ became a breakthrough moment, introducing […]

ALBUM REVIEW – KODALINE: WE WERE ONLY YOUNG

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BABA ZULA: XXX