Reviews Index
by Nick Smith
It’s been over 10 years since Ke$ha ram-raided her way into the charts with the genius and trashy trip Tik Tok. Gleefully riding the crest…
There is a minor irony, for UK listeners at least, in the release date of Dubioza Kolektiv’s new album. Landing in the week in which...
Keeping it at under 30 minutes, Toronto based Kiwi Jr have somehow managed to fill their concise debut Football Money with a long list of...
A small neon green rectangle pulses in the top left corner of a large black screen at the rear of the Barbican stage, eagerly awaiting...
There’s a reason why break-up albums are so commonplace, they’re almost a genre within themselves. It’s that window into an artist’s soul, the diary where...
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. So reads one of the most famous quotes about our profession, which has a curiously uncertain origin....
It was perhaps inevitable that sooner or later we would experience Climate Change: The Musical. Less likely was that it would come from such a...
The road from J-Hus’ previous record, 2017’s Common Sense, to this one has been turbulent – he was arrested for knife possession and spent four...
The third in a trilogy of Pet Shop Boys records produced by Stuart Price (Jacques Lu Cont, Thin White Duke, various other aliases and groups),...
The origins of Les Amazones D’Afrique date back to 2014 when the first incarnation of the now shapeshifting collective was formed by three long-established Malian...
In 2018 Eminem released a lead single from a new album that featured him calling another rapper a ‘faggot’: so far, so usual. But this...
There’s no way to listen to Pinegrove‘s latest album without being aware of a particular elephant in the room. In 2017, at the height of...
Halsey’s breakout appearance on Chainsmokers’ Closer, which splashed all over international charts in 2016, was a mixed blessing. Yes, it showed off her sleek delivery...
What are your reasons to be cheerful in January? In a month where inspiration can be in short supply, it’s not bad thing to opt...
It has been a long and winding road to the release of Countless Branches for 76-year-old Bill Fay. Back in the mid ’90s the London-born...
Alex Crossan a.k.a. Mura Masa came into the electronic scene as a purveyor of Flume-ish, HudMo-ish beats, all sidechain and wonky synths that were so...
After touring both stadiums supporting Depeche Mode and tiny eastern European headline shows directly afterwards, all in support of their excellent second album The Underside...
Two albums involving producer Raül Refree are released early this year, and his name appears prominently on both, suggesting a collaborative involvement deeper than that...
The tale of an actor turning their hand to music is an old one, but Keeley Forsyth seems to be going about things rather differently...
Louise had quite the musical career in the ’90s. Following the stellar success as part of R&B girl group Eternal, she then pursued a solo...
Four years since their previous record Congrats, Holy Fuck are back with another record of distorted, punky electronica. On Deleter the Toronto outfit are joined...
