Mattiel | Mattiel
8/10 heavenly racket Mattiel Brown is something of a newbie in the pop world, but based on her barnstorming self-titled new LP she certainly knows
October 3, 2018
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Paul Weller | True Meanings
8/10 acoustic Jam. It’s been over twenty-five years since the ex-Jam and Style council ‘Modfather’ sat down with an acoustic guitar and knocked out the
September 20, 2018
Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2/10 spaced out. Ever since their groundbreaking debut album “Whatever People Say I am…” (with the notable exception of 2013’s career highpoint “AM”), Sheffield foursome
September 5, 2018
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Django Django | Marble Skies
6/10 Blurred lines. Bands traditionally bristle at the idea of being “put in a pigeonhole”, the very prospect of not only denting their self-image as deathless
August 8, 2018
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Ben Howard | Noonday Dream
6/10 Half asleep. The third album from Britain’s favourite surfing folkie starts off promisingly enough with the aptly dreamy “Nica Libres At Dusk”; a swirling, gentle
July 25, 2018
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Father John Misty | God’s Favorite Customer
8/10 “I know my way round a tune/there won’t be a single dry eye in the room” states Josh Tillman – full to bursting with
July 11, 2018
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Gaz Coombes | World’s Strongest Man
8/10 Just Super. Gaz Coombes’ third solo album since shedding the skin of Supergrass back in 2010 marks the completion of his transformation from mutton-chopped
May 30, 2018
CD Reviews
Jack White | Boarding House Reach
4/10 Cool mining. With the release of his first proper solo album – 2012’s Blunderbuss – Jack White confirmed what we’d known all along; that
May 17, 2018
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Public Service Broadcasting | Every Valley
8/10 Charting the rise and tragic fall of coal mining in industrial South Wales would never be an easy story to tell – much less
May 1, 2018
CD Reviews
Laura Viers | The Lookout
7/10 Five years on from 2013’s “Warp & Weft” and it’s business as usual for the Oregon-based siren Laura Viers. Thanks to its breezy acoustica
April 18, 2018
