ALBUM REVIEW – PAVEMENT: HECKLER’S CHOICE

Usually, I call people pretentious when they say that they were born in the wrong generation, however I make an exception when it comes to that being how I feel about the band Pavement. I should’ve been at a Pavement gig in the 90s, luckily they have just released a new compilation album titled Heckler’s […]
“Contact, contact, all this shattered impact, shake three”. My introduction to Water From Your Eyes, and by extension, their second LP, was lead single ‘Life Signs’ which struck a nerve in me. An incredibly good nerve at that. Lead singer Rachel Brown may have a monotonal delivery, but their performance is just one key of […]

ALBUM REVIEW – WATER FROM YOUR EYES: IT’S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE

ALBUM REVIEW – CAR SEAT HEADREST: THE SCHOLARS

“You can love again, if you try again.” [Enter Stage] Everyone’s favourite internet obsessed band is back! …Well one of my favourites. The lovechild of Virginia-born Will Toledo, what once started out as a simple solo project, coalescing into a full band project, returns after 5 years with “The Scholars”, an album that, at its […]
I would just like to start this off by saying, I am not a massive country music fan. The most country I will ever get is Taylor Swift’s first album. However, what I am is a Julien Baker fan. So, I was very excited to see what this new project with Torres would bring me […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JULIEN BAKER & TORRES: SEND A PRAYER MY WAY

ALBUM REVIEW – PERFUME GENIUS: GLORY

Listening to ‘Glory’, the seventh album from Perfume Genius, it becomes apparent why Mike Hadreas’ performance moniker is so appropriate. There is a subtlety to the music and especially his voice that lingers. Initially seeming wispy and fragile, there is more substance than originally seems apparent. It is the equivalent of a scent that strikes […]
With the arrival of ‘The Twits’ at the start of November, it appears bar italia are on top of their game: the enigmatic trio’s latest offering comes just months after their record ‘Tracey Denim’ hit the airwaves and streaming services in May, which saw the group hone their trademark vocal interplay and intense instrumentation. Also heavily present in […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BAR ITALIA: THE TWITS

EP REVIEW – SNAIL MAIL: VALENTINE DEMOS

This could just be my best review ever. A part of me feels like I won’t ever get enjoyment like this. It’s interesting the hallucinogenic trance of ‘Snail Mail’s’ ‘Valentine Demos’. Lindsey Jordan’s vocals are quite hard to follow at moments, it’s without a doubt something that captures a listener with an eerie but spooky […]
There is a contrariness to Bar Italia. Choosing a name that is difficult to google, more likely to lead to mid-price high street eateries than music, has a wilfulness to it. Calling their debut album ‘Tracey Denim’ shows a similar awkward streak in selecting a common name (unfairly synonymous with being naff) and denim, one […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BAR ITALIA: TRACEY DENIM

ALBUM REVIEW: KIM GORDON – NO HOME RECORD

Having sustained my first ever moshpit injury at a Sonic Youth gig in the early 90’s at The Reading Festival, involving someone else’s Doc Marten boot, squelchy mud and my head, to seeing their last ever gig in Manchester, it’s fair to say Kim Gordon’s former band, Sonic Youth, have occupied a large portion of […]
The fact that Yo La Tengo have existed for over thirty years, with a consistently strong but still relatively underground appeal, could be one of the reasons behind the title of their fifteenth  album. Not that Yo La Tengo are in anyway riotous, well at least not in an obvious way. Theirs is a slower, […]

ALBUM: YO LA TENGO – THERE’S A RIOT GOING ON