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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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