Matias Aguayo - The Visitor

Matias Aguayo – The Visitor

by Martyn Young

Chilean producer Matias Agauyo is a globalized musician in the truest sense. Agauyo’s sound is a rich melting pot of textures, sounds and rhythms informed…



Tom Odell – Long Way Down

by Chris Saunders

It would be fair to say that there is a significant amount of hype surrounding 22-year-old Tom Odell, from Chichester. He has featured in the...

Oblivians – Desperation

by Jordan Mainzer

Oblivians have returned from an over 15-year hiatus at exactly the right time: when seemingly countless numbers of bands have made the Memphis trio’s trademark...

Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony

by Chris White

With Sigur Rós also releasing their latest album this week, Anna Von Hausswolff’s stark but outstanding second offering Ceremony is a timely reminder that the...

Various – Collision/Detection

by Steven Johnson

The origins of Collision/Detection don’t lend themselves to simple explanation. It’s the result of an audio project overseen by Long Division With Remainders (a husband...

Bruce Springsteen @ Wembley Stadium, London

by Daniel Paton

Bruce Springsteen, as is so often the case, appears to have a job to do. In spite of the usually epic duration of his live...

Jon Hopkins @ Village Underground, London

by Michael Hubbard

Jon Hopkins‘ fourth solo album Immunity is a sublime, intoxicating monster. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, though wrapping together far more...

James Holden – The Inheritors

by Martyn Young

James Holden has been working in the outer limits of experimental electronic music for almost 15 years now. His Border Community record label has become...

Sigur Rós – Kveikur

by Jordan Mainzer

What is bound to be the most popular talking point about Sigur Rós’s new album Kveikur is the band’s ability to take a musical trend...

Electric Soft Parade – IDIOTS

by David Welsh

Tom and Alex White were just teenagers when they released Holes In The Wall, Electric Soft Parade‘s Mercury-nominated debut; mere slips of lads whose accomplished...

Spacin’ – Deep Thuds

by David Welsh

An album called Deep Thuds. By a band called Spacin’. Only seven tracks in all, most of which stagger past the five-minute mark and well...

Ginferno – Erta Ale

by Sam Shepherd

To explain quite what Madrid’s Ginferno do is a rather daunting task. Clearly accomplished musicians, they are keen to explore multiple genres and musical possibilities....

Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down

by Alan Ashton-Smith

There can’t be many people who don’t like a horn section. Stick a bit of brass on a track and you get motion, rich textures...

Kodaline – In A Perfect World

by Laurence Green

In the fuzzy hinterland between pop and rock, Dublin-based quartet Kodaline occupy a particularly blurry middle ground. Their formula is a simple one: combining the...

Mark Mulcahy – Dear Mark J Mulcahy, I Lov...

by Jack Chown

Mark Mulcahy seems to have propelled out of another age, one of ’70s country rock, though with an indier, but equally earnest, twist. Following the...

Austra – Olympia

by Christopher Monk

When Austra emerged in 2011 with their debut album Feel It Break, they were – alongside the likes of Zola Jesus, Esben And The Witch...

Taffy – Lixiviate

by Sam Shepherd

Almost inevitably Taffy’s Japanese roots mean that they are instantly compared to Shonen Knife, but Taffy are not quite treading the same path. Lixiviate does...