Records | Album Review
Chris Buckle: Having stitched himself into Scotland’s alt-folk fabric (working with Withered Hand, Eagleowl and Alasdair Roberts amongst others), Retaliate is...
Mark Shukla: Having reverted to his Pixies-era moniker of Black Francis in 2007 – in a move that fooled precisely no one – Nonstoperotik finds ...
Lauren Mayberry: Shaking off the excessive sheen of their previous work, Fire Like This presents a heavier, more focused version of Blood Red Shoes. At juggernaut spee...
Chris Buckle: Those who unfairly balked at Eskimo Snow’s perceived middle-age spread would do well to skip Why? drummer Josiah Wolf’s first solo effort....
Joe Barton: What makes Missing Deadlines great is that, if you knew neither Ulrich Schnauss’ signature style nor any of the remixed original tracks, you&rsq...
Mark Shukla: In Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash found perhaps his most sympathetic producer and for the most part Ain't No Grave is as candid and bare-bones as anything fr...
Chris Cusack: Most musicians will never have to follow an album like Ys. Unwinding across three discs, the epic Have One On Me develops the ideas bubbling within it...
Paul Mitchell: What do you get when you cross the creative force behind a soft-spoken indie/pop/alt country collective and a sonic whiz kid with a list of collaborat...
Anna Docherty: Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone fro...
Joe Barton: Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a fo...
Bram Gieben: There are a few new strands woven into the tapestry of Simon Green’s Bonobo. The surprises start with Kiara Prelude, whose lush strings ...
Ryan Drever: Barren Earth are a Finnish melodic-death-metal supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Amorphis, Swallow The Sun and Moonsorrow, as well as guitaris...
Mark Shukla: Having aggressively tested the limits of loop-based electronic music with the diamond-perfect vignettes of 2008's Quaristice, Oversteps finds Autechre...
Chris Buckle: For their eighth album, To Rococo Rot maintain their established aesthetic - impersonal atmosphere, sparingly stocked with isolating electroni...
Ali Maloney: It often seems that the further hip-hop progresses, the more it sounds like industrial music from 20-odd years ago, albeit with an impeccable ...
