ALBUM REVIEW – BLACK MARKET KARMA: MELLOWMAKER

A singular phrase kept creeping its way into my head whilst listening to Mellowmaker, Black Market Karma’s latest album. A phrase that I feel embodies the ethos and feeling of the LP. That phrase was “beauty in it’s imperfections”. Mellowmaker is an album that is aware it can’t be perfect, but revels in its differences, […]
Joe Armon-Jones        All The Quiet (part II)               Second of two distinct but conceptually linked albums find the London-based keyboardist, producer, songwriter and bandleader expanding his sound into new musical and sonic realms, assisted by a wealth of special guests including Nubya Garcia, Asheber, Greentea Peng, Wu Lu, Hak Baker […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 13 JUNE 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – VAN MORRISON: REMEMBERING NOW

As someone born in the mid-2000s, I feel like I’m endlessly attempting to catch up with all the music that has gone before. This is where artists such as Van Morrison don’t help the situation with an excessive amount of musical output for the world to delve into. I don’t know whether to applaud this […]
Little Simz’s genre-bending musical ability finds comfort on Lotus, a revenge-driven collection of angsty ballads that radiate fervently with an innovative sleekness. Lotus is a metaphor for betrayal, a message to the producer and childhood friend of Little Simz, Inflo, who has allegedly failed to repay her £1.7m in loans. Though their story is unfinished, […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LITTLE SIMZ: LOTUS

ALBUM REVIEW – HAYDEN PEDIGO: I’LL BE WAVING AS YOU DRIVE AWAY

‘Long Pond Lily,’ the opening track to Hayden Pedigo’s latest album, ‘I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away,’ is a mesmerising piece of music. The Amarillo-born musician is no stranger to ‘mesmerising,’ that said: with each new project, Pedigo has honed his sound – exquisite acoustic guitar melodies plucked atop spacious, transportive sonics – and […]
Shura’s latest album reads like a deep sigh – but not one of relief. Instead, it feels like someone looking at a precarious, unforgiving world and not finding much solace at all. Moments of euphoria are few and far between across an understated, but quietly urgent set of songs that consolidate Shura as a master […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SHURA: I GOT TOO SAD FOR MY FRIENDS

ALBUM REVIEW – PULP: MORE

      PULP – Let’s all meet up in the year 2000 … and 25 Before we start, let me take you back to January 2001, when Pulp released their last studio album, We Love Life. The phenomenal cultural movement of the ‘90s had come and gone, Tony Blair was in his fourth year […]
Hayden Pedigo            I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away   Pedigo has crafted an intentionally maximalist, genre-resistant work of warped instrumental Americana on this release, which he calls “a micro-dose psychedelic album…as if somebody had cut up a tab of LSD and put on a Fahey record.” Mark Molnar                  EXO      An adventurous, affecting & hermetic […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 6 JUNE 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – KATATONIA: ON NIGHTMARES AS EXTENSIONS OF THE WAKING STATE

When a band is known for innovating a certain genre of music, their fans and the general public would expect them to solely play that genre. Nowadays, more and more artists like to become more innovative with their music and go outside of their one genre they have been shaping for years or even decades. […]
Welsh noise rock outfit Mclusky’s fourth studio album The World Is Still Here and So Are We is a defining statement as indicated by its title. As the band’s first album in 21 years – coming a quarter of a century after first releasing their debut album – it acts as the band’s studio comeback […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MCLUSKY: THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE