Category: Albums

Delphic’s sophomore album, is a bizarre, incoherent mix of tracks which lose the vibrancy that made the dance-pop three-piece stand out in the first place.

There’s one thing Dutch Uncles can never be accused of and that’s a lack of thought. Their third album, Out of Touch in the Wild, is clearly crafted with a sharp intelligence enforcing each note and a clear astuteness behind every lyric sung. It seems that with this album, Dutch Uncles, have earnt their place…

Toro Y Moi returns with his third studio album Anything Can Change, on which he maintains many of the grooves that have continually made this project one to look out for.

Solange Knowles is Beyoncé Knowles sister, but apparently it’s rude to mention this as she is now an artist her own right, so here, I will deny Beyoncé’s existence. Solange Knowles, the sister of absolutely no one famous, has been around for ages now. As far back as 2003, at the mere age of 14,…

Recently, while discussing the recording of Blink-182’s 2011 album Neighbourhoods, guitarist Tom Delonge said that the band ‘barely spoke’. This fractured relationship within the band could be heard in the album itself; while it was a decent record, it did feel that each member had brought their solo interests to the table and the band had…

Everything Everything’s debut album Man Alive was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2011, and is one of our my favourite musical works of the last few years. So, has album number two, Arc, been worth the wait?

In light of The Edge’s Top 10 Albums of 2012 I would like to take this opportunity to tell you why The Maccabees’ Given To The Wild is a worthy contender for the top spot. So here is my belated review. Beware the bias and enjoy. Given To The Wild is the beautifully crafted third studio…

Shallow Bed by Dry The River is one of my favourite albums of 2012, so you can imagine my excitement at the thought of an acoustic version of their beautiful debut. I would like to personally thank Dry The River for this fantastic Christmas present. They have taken the original 11 tracks and recorded acoustic…

After winning the title of ‘World’s Most Popular Man with a Girl’s Face’ after the release of his 2010 debut Doo Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars’ difficult second, brilliant titled Unorthodox Jukebox, has a lot to live up to within his, assumedly, pre-teen audience. Using Wikipedia, Mars’ output can be helpfully pinned down to ‘Reggae…

Olly Murs has been climbing his way to the top of the charts since he came second in 2009’s X Factor, having released 2 commercially successful albums (self titled Olly Murs and In Case You Didn’t Know) which have spawned umpteen hit singles; he’s been doing pretty well for himself. It’s hard to believe he…

This sickeningly generic collection will have you puking tinsel throughout the festive season. With instrumentals which sound like karaoke backing tracks, the 3-piece American country-pop group work their way through 12 Christmas covers, including classics like ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow’. The brass accompaniment becomes exhausting after the…

Sufjan Stevens, the indie-folk musician behind the amazing Illinois, follows up his 2006 collection of Christmas songs with Silver & Gold. Containing five reworked EPs, totalling fifty eight tracks, there’s a lot to see here. The collection displays an amazing amount of variance, from his sweet folk affections prominent in Vol.6 Gloria, to the more aggressive electronic experiments…

Kill The Noise doesn’t take EPs light-heartedly. 2011’s Kill Kill Kill clocked in at ten tracks with six tunes and four remixes; this has seven originals. We begin with the title track – ‘Kill The Noise Pt. 2’ – and ‘Jump Ya Body’, drum’n’bass and brostep romps respectively. Sound familiar? But, it doesn’t take many bars of…