This may well end up on my top 5 albums of the year.
It’s been 3 years since the last album (Recovery) from Eminem. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 acts as a continuation to 2000’s highly acclaimed The Marshall Mathers LP. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 brings Eminem’s usual sharp tongue and anger but whilst it does bring fresh new rhymes and punchy beats, the 16 track LP…
Lady Gaga’s new record almost lives up to the huge expectations.
Darkside is the brainchild of American-Chilean prodigy Nicholas Jaar, and the (relatively unknown) multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. The pair were introduced when Jaar was looking for a touring band, and found Harrington through a mutual friend. As such, I was expecting Psychic to be very much a Nicholas Jaar record. Listening to the 11 minute opening…
Having heard the first few singles from Burials, ‘I Hope You Suffer’ being the first, what was to come from the record itself was inevitable: haunting melodrama with an underlying theatricalness. Thirty seconds into it and the bar has been well and truly set, high in expectations and, in the best way, crushing in mood: “Blackness…
Another three years have passed and Arcade Fire have returned to bestow us with a work that is undeniably good, yet fundamentally frail. Drawing influences from a recent visit to Haiti by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, the first half of the ambitious double LP charms with its Rara and Twoubadou tinged excursions. These musical…
Poliça return with a rich and rewarding second album.
Since their first production in 2004, Chase and Status, also known as Will Kennard, and Saul Milton have produced two hugely successful albums, More Than A Lot (2008) and No More Idols (2011). The latter selling enough copies to reach double platinum status, a testament to the duo’s success. Chase & Status having become synonymous…
Who remembers the Season 5 X-Factor pop diva Diana Vickers? Just another TV reality star who disappeared into the backdrop – or so we thought. Vickers is back with her second album Music to Make Boys Cry which was released 15th September 2013. Vicker’s debut album Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree released in 2010, charted…
She’s had enough, and you’re gonna hear her Roar
Sons Of The Sea is the second solo release from Brandon Boyd, best known as the lead singer of the band Incubus, working alongside producer Brendan O’Brien under the name Sons Of The Sea. In June of this year, Sons Of The Sea released the four track Compass EP, giving fans a glimpse of this new…
Janelle Monáe’s latest album is a sizzling sequel to her debut The ArchAndroid. Continuing with the same sci-fi story arc, this is a concept album which offers a fun, tantalising and thought-provoking glimpse into the futuristic world of Monáe’s imagination.
With the task of shrugging the X Factor curse off her shoulders Lucy Spraggan’s album Join the Club had a lot to do to impress, and it’s safe to say that Spraggan doesn’t disappoint. Two tracks off the album have already been released with little recognition but her album is sure to get the attention it…
After 17 years Mazzy Star return with another collection of plaintive and hazy dream pop