Category: Albums
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Daniel Caesar’s fourth studio album, Son of Spergy, is a soulful and spiritual meditation on family and religion. Raised in a deeply religious Seventh Day Adventist environment himself, much of this album draws heavily on his own personal experience. Early in his career, Caesar used similar scriptural imagery and references to sin and God such…
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2025 has been the year of Olivia Dean. The 26-year-old, London-born singer has recently released her much anticipated second album, The Art of Loving. In 2019, Dean released her first EP, OK Love You Bye, which secured her a contract with EMI. The EP, featuring songs such as ‘OK Love You Bye’ and ‘Reason To…
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Banner Photo Credit: Dollie Kyarn After rising in popularity through her breakout album Preacher’s Daughter, Ethel Cain returns with Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You, an album dedicated to love, loss, and obsession. Cain once again delivers a gut-wrenching portrait of an unravelling relationship, steeped in religious guilt and abusive dynamics. With raw lyricism,…
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Britpop is so back! Due to be released on March 21st, Welly’s debut Britpop-infused album, ‘Big in the Suburbs‘, comes with a track list of 14 impeccable songs. The Brighton-based five-piece have had a whirlwind of the last two years- travelling across the UK on their headline tour, and most recently being on the Dork…
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Mary Berry loves reggae, did you know?
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After 16 years, The Cure has returned with an exquisitely desolate album, Songs of a Lost World, guided by the masterfully dispiriting talent of frontman Robert Smith. It is undoubtedly their greatest music since Disintegration (1989). Beautifully downcast and alluringly bleak, Smith uses the track listing to express his feelings on profoundly demoralizing subjects, including…
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One of the most successful albums of 2024: A review of Suki Waterhouse’s ‘Memoir of a Sparklemuffin’
Grace Henery reviews Suki Waterhouse’s first second studio album, ‘Memoir of a ‘Sparklemuffin’.
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Kye Preston finds the face-hitting album of 2024 so far!
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Imagine Dragons return with their 6th studio album Loom and it does not disappoint! The band flummoxed fans in late March when they deleted all Instagram posts from their profile. In place, they promoted Loom which appears as a new era with lead vocalist Dan Reynolds saying, “For the first ten years of this band,…
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Liana Flores’ debut album Flower of the Soul makes a welcome addition to my “Time to Chill” Spotify playlist. As an art teacher, I’m always on the lookout for gentle melodic music to play to my students. As a student, I search for easy listening to help me focus. Liana’s dulcet tones create a dream-like…
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Jasmine Kelly checks out the latest album from Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers
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Scottish indie band The Snuts enjoyed a rapid ascent before the pandemic, coming out of it with two studio albums. Now, they’ve ditched their record label and started their own, owing to their vision drifting apart from their label. That vision has been imagined in Millennials, their third album, and it’s quite something. It’s both…
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Declan McKenna’s ‘Big Return’ has finally reached its climax with the long-awaited release of his third studio album, What Happened to The Beach?. It joins What Do You Think About the Car? and Zeros in McKenna’s impressive collection of albums. So, how does it fare compared to these earlier releases? Does it hold its own?…
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Dove Cameron is back. Sporting a new alternative look, she makes her Disney days seem decades ago, even if she started Liv and Maddie only in 2013. After controversially removing her past music from her discovery, Cameron promised a new album with a new look and a new style, and she dropped just that with…