Reviews Index
by John Murphy
“Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years” runs one line on In League With Dragons, the 17th album from The Mountain Goats….
Holly Herndon is relatively anomalous in the music community, for believing that artificial intelligence can be a welcome addition to the compositional process rather than...
Retrowave comes in many different forms: at worst it can wholly prioritise surface-level aesthetic over compositional merit, serving as nothing more than an aural Instagram...
A djinn, more commonly referred to as a genie in the western world, is a supernatural creature. And it feels like a comfortable reference point...
Clinic should be a national institution by now. On to their eighth album, Ade Blackburn and his troops are still growing musically. Wheeltappers & Shunters,...
James Chapman is like a kid in a sweetshop. For his fourth album as Maps, the first since 2013, he has acquired the keys to...
Four years ago, Marina Diamandis draw a veil over the first decade of her career with her last album credited to Marina & The Diamonds,...
It’s Richard Dawson’s birthday, we won’t ask which one, and so his Hen Ogledd harpist bandmate Rhodri Davies asks the spartan attendees of tonight’s show...
Loyle Carner was a breath of fresh air when he appeared with his debut album Yesterday’s Gone just two years. A likeable, articulate young man...
If you haven’t kept your ear to the ground, The National’s eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find may be something of a surprise....
Three albums into their career, you may expect UFOF to be Big Thief‘s big commercial breakthrough, a move into big commercial pop that would take...
Nobody had banked on Fat White Family making it this far. So, the question is, now that they appear to have ridden out their rockiest...
If Big | Brave’s 2017 record Ardor proved anything, it’s that they will not be rushed. There aren’t many bands that have the temerity to...
Released as a companion piece to last year’s Konoyo, Tim Hecker’s new album is a relatively slim and minimal affair. It is filled with synthy...
Terminal Cheesecake operate at a crazed pitch not dissimilar to Butthole Surfers, albeit by varying means, in that an underlying mischievousness underscores everything they produce....
Frank Carter’s musical career has been staggering. And on End Of Suffering, the third with his Rattlesnakes, he pushes the boat out further than he...
The award for most disingenuous album title of all time nearly goes to Detroit punk maniacs Protomartyr, and their debut album No Passion All Technique...
Six long years have passed since we last heard from Vampire Weekend, so much time that they almost seem emblematic of a different era. Father...
After a three-and-a-half-year gap, Cage The Elephant’s fifth studio album Social Cues is another twist in an interestingly varied career. Like some other recent famous...
Growing up in public does strange things to a psyche. Once you have experienced glowing adulation and the trappings of fame, the quest for substance...
Stealing Sheep’s 2012 debut album, Into The Diamond Sun, was brilliantly eccentric; a folkish experiment with electronics and distinctive three-way harmonies. They’ve continued developing the...
