ALBUM REVIEW: BALLAKE SISSOKO – DJOUROU

Sometimes, Manchester really spoils us… I have the chance to review the new album Djourou (released April 2nd) from Malian artist Ballaké Sissoko. I have no idea what to expect and I’m hoping for something totally fresh to broaden my musical horizons… and on first listen it sounds a lot like that busker in Piccadilly […]
In these strange times, it’s great to still have new music to look forward to, and since we’re two weeks into February now (which is starting to feel longer than a Pink Floyd song) it’s great that we have a new album to spin. If you don’t know Django Django then you’re in for a […]

ALBUM REVIEW: DJANGO DJANGO – GLOWING IN THE DARK

ALBUM REVIEW: FEMI KUTI & MADE KUTI – LEGACY +

Legacy+ is a double album featuring Stop the Hate, the 11th studio release from Femi Kuti (son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti) alongside For(e)ward, the debut album of Femi’s son Made. Surely no style of music has been so inextricably linked to a single family as Afrobeat is to the Kutis since the Bachs basically […]
‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’ No, you haven’t landed in an episode of Game of Thrones or Boris Johnson’s email inbox, but the review for the new Shame album “Drunk Tank Pink”. The alt-rock/post-punk band return with their second album, the bigger and better follow up to their promising debut.  The album itself goes bigger than the […]
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

ALBUM REVIEW: SHAME – DRUNK TANK PINK

ALBUM REVIEW: HERE LIES MAN – RITUAL DIVINATION

Here Lies Man vocalist Marcos Garcia says, of their new album Ritual Divination: ‘It’s an inward psychedelic journey, the album is the trip’. He says ‘Musically, it’s an opening up more to traditional rock elements.’ – and it’s easy to hear Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf and the retro theatre organ evokes Hush by Deep Purple. […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE KILLS – LITTLE BASTARDS

ALBUM REVIEW: THE AVALANCHES – WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

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’ […]
Arriving at a time of great uncertainty, Shallow Waters new single “The God You Know You Are” gives listeners the keys to a world to get lost in. The band originate from Wigan (aka the pie capital of Britain) and bring with them an expansive single that announces their ambitions clearer than a foghorn on […]

SINGLE REVIEW: SHALLOW WATERS – THE GOD YOU KNOW YOU ARE

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