album review
Album Review: The Cribs – ‘Night Network’: their best yet?
Replete with unparalleled displays of riff-age. Riddled with lyrical honesty. An uncompromising garage-punk production. Each of The Cribs’ releases has honed these and other facets with increasing skill and, as preceding albums have progressively done, Night Network embellishes The Cribs’ sound with the brothers’ continuously developing songwriting and influences, while still retaining that indelible and …
Album Review: Young Jesus – ‘Welcome to Conceptual Beach’
Saddle Creek ‘s emo-jazz-rock band presents its most accomplished album, a spiritual journey driven by a swirl of enthralling riffs
CASSETTE REVIEWS: A trio of leftfield beauties from Fritz Pape, Stephen Molyneux, and Laura Luna Castillo
WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those brilliant little labels nibbling away at, and fascinated by, what’s happening out on the margins. The artists driven less by adoring teens and the bucks, and much, much more by exploring what’s possible, following their muse ever deeper into a particular aesthetic. As la mode, many of Whited Sepulchre’s …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Bitter Springs – ‘Hope Springs Eternal’: lost British indiepop classic, expanded
Nineteen years after its initial release, The Bitter Springs are hoping this hidden gem of an album will finally get the recognition it deserves with a vinyl re-release featuring additional bonus tracks
ALBUM REVIEW: Pole – ‘Fading’: an enveloping electronic palimpsest
Fading is a palimpsest, Stefan writing over and erasing, finessing and revisiting all the Poles which make up Pole. Think of Fading in terms of depth, of descending, and exploring what lies within. It’ll envelop you.
Album Review: Loma – Don’t Shy Away
“Don’t Shy Away’, the new album from Loma, is a joy: luminescent and glowing throughout with a multi-layered instrumental complexity and yet a simplicity and elegance to the songs that is immersive and enthralling. Throughout the album there are traces of flutes, trombones, saxophones in addition to synths, pianos, violins and of course guitars bass …
ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar
Crack A Light really won’t disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging
ALBUM REVIEWS: Lucifer – ‘Black Mass’; Ataraxia – ‘The Unexplained’: spooky Moog vibes from Mort Garson, reissued
SIXTIES’ and Seventies’ electronica is a weird and eccentric world, seemingly populated by mad genii and creative mavericks with clipboards and lab coats, observing banks of machinery at sonic play. Actually that conception isn’t too far from the truth: Raymond Scott and his Manhattan Research, Inc. while using the new musical technology to place interlude …
ALBUM REVIEW: Keep Dancing Inc – ‘Embrace’ – new wave synthpop is worth the wait
This euphoric, if occasionally generic debut album from Keep Dancing Inc comes after a five-year wait, a wait that has evidently been worth it. With bouncing synths, fuzzy guitars and endless 80s nostalgia, Embrace will get you shaking those shoulder pads in no time
ALBUM REVIEW: Little Barrie and Malcolm Catto – ‘Quatermass Seven’: deep psych; turn on, compadre
IT’S FAIR to say that losing your drummer – the man who pins it down for you, keeps it ticking, grounded, makes sure the groove is strong – is a hell of a blow. And to lose your drummer to a sudden and untimely death, if you’re a psych power trio – well, that’s a …