CD Reviews
Karen O | Lux Prima
8/10 Yes Yes Yes! Coming in way too long after its titular single dropped at the end of last year, Lux Prima is a luscious,
March 21, 2019
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The Specials | Encore
8/10 ska-dazzle Since their 2008 reformation, The Specials have been busy touring, but had seemed reluctant to work on a new record. The fact that
March 6, 2019
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TOY | Happy in the Hollow
8/10 comeback kids Stumbling into the psychedelic netherworld of Toy is nothing if not a giddy thrill – all soaring chunks of garage-rock and post-punk
February 8, 2019
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Thom Yorke | Susperia
7/10 Soundtrack scares A listening party was thrown back in December for Thom Yorke’s debut film soundtrack, Susperia, beneath Clerkenwell Prison – a candlelit dungeon
January 23, 2019
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MUSE | Simulation Theory
6/10 retro roving Having well and truly settled into their role as space-rock stadium fillers three or four albums ago, all the Teignmouth trio now
January 10, 2019
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Seasick Steve | Can U Cook?
6/10 mixin’ up the medicine… The myth of “Seasick” Steve Leach as a train-hopping, panhandling hobo may have been busted by a 2016 biography (the
January 8, 2019
Top ten albums of 2018
How can it possibly be the end of 2018 already?! We’ve only just gotten used to writing it down instead of 2017 ffs. Here we
December 26, 2018
AURORA | Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1
6/10 Having shot to fame for her cutesy cover of Oasis’ “Half The World Away” for the John Lewis ad a coupla Christmases ago, Norwegian
November 14, 2018
Cat Power | Wanderer
7/10 not all those who wander are lost. “Oh wanderer, I’ve been wondering” muses Chan Marshall – aka Cat Power – in the opening lines
November 1, 2018
Kurt Vile | Bottle it In
7/10 a very pretty daze. Even in the more horizontal moments of Kurt Vile’s music, there has always been the fidgety presence of someone with
October 17, 2018