This week, the new hot girl on the rap/hip-hop scene, Azealia Banks, released her debut EP and to be honest, it’s a bit of a disappointment. After uploading a budget video for ‘212’ last September, Azealia has been voted top of NME’s Cool-List, and was also placed third on BBC’s Sound of 2012. Ever since the…
Another Silversun Pickups album and another slating received for sounding like the Smashing Pumpkins (Carnavas), or for trying to sound less like the ‘Pumpkins (Swoon). They do, but then Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most acclaimed rock bands of the ‘90s. Neck Of The Woods’ opener ‘Skin Graph’ starts mellower than Pickups fans may be…
With their 4th album, Beach House have truly Bloom-ed and may have produced the most mesmerising album of the year.
‘What’s a Baio?’ were my immediate thoughts when I stumbled across this EP. Well it turns out a Baio isn’t an anything actually; it is in fact the name under which Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio has begun releasing solo material, Sunburn EP being his debut offering. The Vampire Weekend brand name instantly draws to mind…
Marina & The Diamonds is back with sophomore effort ‘Electra Heart’; a confused-concept with eurotrash beats and Katy Perry all mashed into one.
Want a little more indie rock, after being surrounded by pop tunes and synthesised bass? Keane’s Strangeland is the album for you. Keane have been around since Hopes and Fears was released in 2004, and are probably best known for ‘Somewhere Only We Know,’ the first single to be released from the album. Since then…
Poliça embrace electronic haze and production to produce a stunning and exquisite début album.
Feeder’s eight studio album offers up nothing new, even if still being a decent listen from a well travelled band.
Santigold’s new album Master Of My Make-Believe released on April 23rd is the highly anticipated new record by singer-songwriter Santi White, four years after her debut album, Santogold. After a swift name change – to avoid being sued by the director of Santo Gold’s Blood Circus, a wrestling-themed science fiction film from the 80s – she’s back! The current single ‘Disparate…
Missing the good old nineties and noughties punk rock bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182? The days when cargo shorts, Converse and skateboarding were a way of life, before it became Busted and McFly‘d all over? Well, you’re still going to miss it, but The All American Rejects new album Kids In The Street might take…
Keaton Henson’s début album Dear is a stellar piece of work, brimming with songs of lost love, but retains an aspect of beauty that binds the record together. This solitary soul is interesting in today’s music industry as crippling stage fright has meant he has done very few live appearances. More interesting is that Keaton Henson is not…
Like music? Good. Like listening to music that makes you feel like a badass? You’ve come to the right album review. You might be able to tell I’m sort of excited about this album; two rigorously raw pre-release tracks in the form of ‘Stay Useless’ and ‘No Future/No Past’, and the knowledge that the whole album…
Well, they’re back; or, more specifically, he’s back. It’s been five years since The Shins came out with anything new, and a staggering nine years since the release of the magnificent Chutes Too Narrow. So, has the frontman of this outstanding pop-rock outfit come up with anything fresh this time around? In case you don’t know, James Mercer –…
The super producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer reshapes the British music scene with his debut album.