ALBUM REVIEW – JAMIE WEBSTER: RUNNING ROUND THE SUN

Since he burst onto the UK music scene in 2019 with his first single, Weekend in Paradise, Jamie Webster has turned the busy streets of Liverpool, football terraces, and everyday human struggles into songs that feel so personal yet so universal at the same time. His newest record, Running Round The Sun, embodies that yet […]
ANYX    Starline              Anchoress front-person’s solo debut. She takes a sculptural approach to her songs, starting with her voice and words as internal navigation from which she works outwards. Around this core, she builds minimal instrumentation – harp, keys, guitar, double bass – until each song is muscular and multi-dimensional. midori jaeger   (Re)planted      A counterpart to […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 28 AUGUST 2026

ALBUM REVIEW – ALEX AMOR: HEAVENLY BODIES

“Flying like you’re limitless, headed for oblivion” Cosmic Americana. Ever heard of it? I would bet a fiver you haven’t. And for the record that isn’t a serious bet, I can’t possibly wager 5 quid to everyone reading. Until a few days ago the concept was foreign to me, one of the small minute things […]
The inevitable question arising from reading this title is, “who are the human assholes?” There are plenty of candidates. Is it anyone specific, the entire human race or Willem Smit, the band’s frontman and songwriter, accusing himself? Anyone familiar with Personal Trainer’s oeuvre thus far will not expect any definitive answers to be forthcoming as […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PERSONAL TRAINER: HUMAN ASSHOLES

ALBUM REVIEW – MASTODON: MARROW DEEP

Mastodon have never been particularly interested in staying within the boundaries of heavy metal. Formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1999, the Grammy-winning band built their reputation through a restless combination of sludge, progressive and psychedelic metal, pairing intricate guitar work with unconventional structures, sprawling compositions and Brann Dailor’s famously frenetic drumming. Alongside Dailor, the band’s […]
Well, it’s safe to say the Mondays are back, and I don’t mean the depressing kind that makes you reluctant to get out of bed because the weekend is over. No, this is the genuine article, Happy Mondays have been touring recently, to much joy from the adoring (mainly middle aged) fans that have long […]

ALBUM REVIEW – HAPPY MONDAYS: THRILLS’N’PILLS AND BELLYACHES

ALBUM REVIEW – GRAHAM HUNT: AMERICAN PYRAMID

There is an appealingly ramshackle quality to ‘American Pyramid’ that brings to mind Personal Trainer and early Pavement. It marks a whole new approach for Graham Hunt. His previous five albums have been homespun, computer-oriented explorations but having moved out of the house that contained his home studio, he chose to record at Minnesota’s Pachyderm […]
Manchester quartet Westside Cowboy are quickly making a name for themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting emerging bands by fusing unlikely genres together and creating a unique sound for themselves. Their highly anticipated debut album It Goes On proves just why there is such a hype around them. The album’s opener, ‘Kick Stones […]

ALBUM REVIEW – WESTSIDE COWBOY: IT GOES ON

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 21 AUGUST 2026

Julia Holter       Materia              A seven-track companion album to her acclaimed 2024 release Something in the Room She Moves. The collection, a sequel of sorts, includes new songs written and recorded with her band in between tours, reinventions of Something’s “Materia,” and songs first conceived around the making of the 2024 record. Cornelius          Refractions       Where previous […]
As defined by Jim James, being Wowed Out is a contemporary malaise, a state of overstimulation, constantly searching for the latest sensation. It underpins the first solo album in eight years from the My Morning Jacket frontman which seeks a refuge from the spiritual alienation of an existence mediated through screens. In standing firm against […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JIM JAMES: WOWED OUT