ALBUM REVIEW: DRIFT – SYMBIOSIS

The first album is difficult no matter what level you’re at, sometimes you get it right and sometimes it is just a learning curve. From what I understand, the artist DRIFT didn’t want the album to be full of singles, and wanted the project to feel like it was ‘weaving together as a whole.’ Now […]
In a world in a current flux of damage and unaware of how to mend itself, perhaps it’s forgotten what pain ‘actually’ feels like? We have the comforting wet cloth and band aid that is a new release. Though the majority of us are stuck in a confusing landscape that seems to have less clue […]

ALBUM REVIEW: A A WILLIAMS – FOREVER BLUE

ALBUM REVIEW: POTTERY – BOBBY’S MOTEL

They’ve toured with the likes of Parquet Courts and Oh Sees, and released one of the catchiest singles of the year so far with ‘Texas Drums Pt. I & II’, it’s easy to see why indie fans are getting giddy over this lot. The Montreal five piece have a knack for writing hugely melodic yet […]
‘Breathe Deep’ is the highly anticipated debut album from Oscar Jerome who is part of London’s burgeoning nu-jazz scene. Now, before we continue, don’t let the term, jazz, put you off. For anyone who has been following how the scene has developed over the last few years you’ll know that Jerome and many of his […]

ALBUM REVIEW: OSCAR JEROME – BREATHE DEEP

ALBUM REVIEW: HAIM – WOMEN IN MUSIC PART III

Haim are back! After their more pop-leaning second album, they return with the posthumously titled ‘Women in Music Pt. III’. I can now say with no uncertainty that this is probably one of, if not the, best albums of the year, and it’s only June. ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ is their most personal, inventive […]
Death Valley Girls hit the streets once again with a single release of ‘Breakthrough’. A very charming and inviting success at merging the ‘old rock’ sound into a modern sound. They’ve got their influences tied into their groove without relying to much on just ‘sound like they did okay!’. Having never listened to the group […]

SINGLE REVIEW: DEATH VALLEY GIRLS – BREAKTHROUGH

ALBUM REVIEW: NO AGE – GOONS BE GONE

In a year spinning so far out of control and social reach, it seems only fair to abandon it to be forgotten, as it only brings shame within the yearly calendars. Though one positive of ‘this year’ has given us, is a sleuth of good album releases. Fitting to the torrid trap that is ‘this […]
Abstract: This EP is a zesty chorus stratagem of drain-pipe bass lines, journeyman synthesizations, moderate baritone delivery, candid fills and 6-stringed nuances which sail alongside tri-timbre-d lyrics that provoke humour, adds colour to the pallet of the mundane   and tastefully ventures into the distasteful without catering toward frightful yacht-rockisms or baseless complaints towards imaginary authority […]

EP REVIEW: FURROWED BROW – DEAD DEAD DEAD STILL DIGGING

ALBUM REVIEW: TIM BURGESS – I LOVE THE NEW SKY

I bet Tim Burgess never thought when he started writing solo album number five, that when it was released he’d be hosting twitter listening parties for music fans all over the world with no live gigs on the horizon. Although it’s a weird world we live in today, there’s something strangely comforting and upbeat about […]
It’s been ten years since Badly Drawn Boy’s last studio album, the world has changed a lot, Damon Gough’s life has changed a lot, yet there’s something reassuringly familiar about ‘Banana Skin Shoes’.  Gough recently revealed that he was inspired by the The Beastie Boys book, and wanted to return to the drum loops and […]

ALBUM REVIEW: BADLY DRAWN BOY – BANANA SKIN SHOES