ALBUM REVIEW: THE KILLS – LITTLE BASTARDS

As a happy accident of this devastating, pandemic situation, Domino Records’ boss Laurence Bell came up with the wonderful idea of gathering The Kills’ B sides and rarities in a double album, aptly titled “Little Bastards”: A bunch of 20 lost, hidden-in-digital-platforms gems that the British-American duo released between 2002-09.  All tracks have been remastered by […]
As 2020 (thankfully) draws to a close and the “best albums of 2020” lists published, I’m hoping there remains a spot for this cosmically inspired entry from the sample-based group The Avalanches. This album was four years in the making, compared to the sixteen gap between their critically lauded first album ‘Since I Left You’ […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE AVALANCHES – WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

ALBUM REVIEW: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – KG

Since the release of 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana, Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have always hinted at further exploration into the world of microtonal tuning. Now studio album number sixteen KG, finally delivers with an amalgamation of microtones and essences of previous albums adding to their ever-present and diverse musical odysseys. Beginning […]
Rising star often gets thrown around a lot, but in the case of Beabadoobee, that title is more than well deserved. Bea Kristi is a 20-year-old singer-songwriter from London who has blown up the internet with viral hit “Coffee,” along with a series of successful EPs and a sample of her vocals being used on […]
Beabadoobee Fake It Flowers

ALBUM REVIEW: BEABADOOBEE – FAKE IT FLOWERS

This is the Kit

ALBUM REVIEW: THIS IS THE KIT – OFF OFF ON

I don’t trust people who say they like all types of music. That is a pretty, blanket statement. I like food but it doesn’t mean I like eating all food. There will inevitably be some music that I don’t want to listen to. However, I can see the merits of most music even if I […]
Twisted Ankle’s self-titled debut album is determined to wriggle its way out of any boxes you might want to put it in. Over the course of eleven songs many different musical avenues find themselves explored, though all of them are loud and dirty. Opening song ‘(All My Life I Wanted To Be A) Mortgage’ sets […]
Twisted Ankle Album Cover

ALBUM REVIEW: TWISTED ANKLE

The Green Child Shimmering Basset

ALBUM REVIEW: THE GREEN CHILD – SHIMMERING BASSET

The story of The Green Child is a fascinating one with members Raven Mahon and Mikey Young meeting in California before Raven moved to Australia to work with influential Australian musician Mikey on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.  Since the move, The Green Child have already made one album and ‘Shimmering Basset’ is their latest […]
Leeds band Magick Mountain are a new and exciting act that have concocted fuzzy, psychedelic tracks that result in a masterclass enough to make any fan of this genre stop and marvel. Their new album Weird Feelings is set for release on October 23rd and is going to be something special.  Immediately, ‘Bart Cobain’, with […]
Magick Mountain Weird Feelings

ALBUM REVIEW: MAGICK MOUNTAIN – WEIRD FEELINGS

ALBUM REVIEW: SCAPHOID – ABSENT PASSAGES

Scaphoid’s Absent Passages, is an interesting and impressive album –even more so because it’s a solo project arranged for full band with creator Matt Hobart playing every note.  Unfortunately, even though I know people who will really enjoy it, most of the observations I can make about Absent Passages are technical and critical, because as […]
“Hello I’m Johnny Cash” sings Bill Callahan as the opening line on ‘Pigeons’ the first track on his new album ‘Gold Record’. Perhaps a cheeky nod to those who have noted that over the years Bill Callahan has slowly transitioned from indie rock quirkiness with his Smog output into  more mellowed, yet no less acerbic, […]
Bill Callahan Gold Record

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL CALLAHAN – GOLD RECORD