Records | Single Review
Nick Mitchell: The EP is an awkward conception, defined by what it's not: too long to be a single, too short to be an album. Even within this limited bracket...
Chris Buckle: To Music and Maths, add a double period of English, for Burnt Island’s debut is a decidedly literary affair. Led by author Rodge Glass and partl...
Nick Mitchell: Few bands pour as much into a single song as Milwaukee electro-rockers The New Loud. Their debut EP is splattered with wild guitar solos, octave-leapi...
Gordon Bruce: Daedelus never ceases to surprise. His albums draw influences and samples from areas untouched by other electronic musicians and a new directi...
Chris Cusack: In little over 21 minutes, solo music encyclopedia Al Chivers invites comparisons to some of the most far-flung influences one man can surely muster. ...
Joe Barton: Home is an incredibly mature effort for sun-trapping boy Colin MacLeod, considering that he was last spotted drunkenly dishing out Deep Purple covers ...
Darren Carle: There’s little straightforward about Pensioner. The name’s a misnomer, their history is written in colourful, far-flung prose, whilst this...
Euan Ferguson: Senadee’s debut single sounds like an uncomfortable cross between a surly, swaggering, duffeled-up Northerner in the mould of Richard Ashcroft o...
Nick Mitchell: With today's guitar clutching kids variously assimilating the sounds of Vampire Weekend, Klaxons or the Arctic Monkeys, the good ship Punk currently f...
Euan Ferguson: Who remembers the 90s? Japanese Voyeurs certainly do, or if they’re not old enough, they’ve been busily swotting up on their big brother&r...
Joe Barton: If hip-hop is dead, then Gil Scott-Heron made a pact at the crossroads. With Me and the Devil he succeeds in resurrecting the genre’s gaudy corp...
Euan Ferguson: While the seemingly endless horde of eccentric and energetic young female performers (Flo, Marina, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding…) rush the char...
Euan Ferguson: Drop the Other is how Nico might have sounded had she been wearing a helmet in 1988 and lived to remain at the avant garde of the Berlin scene. It&rsq...
Chris Buckle: The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from ...
Joe Barton: Tight guitar work, even tighter harmonies, and, considering their indie-country sound, the likelihood of superlatively tight trousers, It Was ...
