A female solo artist who generates lush, complex electronic soundscapes, which ebb and flow between chamber-pop peaks and shuffling, syncopated glitchy beats, is inevitably going to generate comparisons with Björk;...
John Kevin White was one of the more obscure cult figures to emerge from the 80s post-punk / early electronic scene in 1980s Sheffield. His sometime-band, sometime-solo project UV PØP...
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor.
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserved label given the extraordinary diversity and...
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on chanting each song's title,...
The second LP from San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ takes its cues from the dreamy atmospheres of understated 80s indie; the textures of opener Elsie Dormer bear an uncanny resemblance to...
Given the celebrated output of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound foreman Bradford Cox, it’s surprising just how few imitators he has. There’s good reason for this: few have the wont to subject audiences...
Though the majority of Parergon is centred on the piano, subtle droning electronic frequencies, echo effects and even schizophrenic Venetian Snares-style breakdowns (Aerophobia) to produce musical sequences that have an...
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The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming directness and black humour. Although Egerton’s accent swerves between scouse and...
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penitently low profile of...
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can’t help but cheer those observing...
It would be too easy to write off I Like Trains as post-rock also-rans; over the last five years the Leeds outfit have flirted with the notion of a breakthrough,...
In an ideal world, Mummy Short Arms would have called in Steve Albini to produce their debut album. He would have been the man to capture the full intensity of...
Lyrically, Bigg Jus hasn't switched up the formula much for Machines – his flows are still acerbic, passionate attacks on inequality and established power structures – but a voice as...
These are bleak times for the mid-Noughties’ bright young things: The Libertines are a spent force, Razorlight have collapsed under Jonny Borrell’s gargantuan ego, and the Kaiser Chiefs are more...
It's been five years since El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead. There's not much point prefixing anything the rapper/producer behind the Definitive Jux label does with 'seminal' – it's all been...
Garbage have never been a band of much substance but at their peak they produced some brilliantly damaged pop music. Not Your Kind of People contents itself with refining an established musical...
Marilyn Manson was a force to be reckoned with back in the 1990s, but despite being hailed as a ‘comeback’ album by Manson himself, Born Villain does nothing to halt his decade-long...
Glasgow five-piece French Wives describe Dreams of the Inbetween as “finally sounding how we always wanted to sound.” It’s how we want them to sound too: big and bold one...
“As much as Warp would love to nail me down to a plan, it’s not the way I do it... that’s why my career is such a mess,” said Tom...
