Category: Albums


  • Review: Blur – The Magic Whip

    Blur make a strong case for Britpop revival with their first release in twelve years.

  • Review: Passion Pit – Kindred

    Passion Pit’s third album, following 2012’s critically acclaimed Gossamer, is full of delightfully energetic music and thankfully less relentlessly bleak lyrics.

  • Review: Shawn Mendes – Handwritten

    The latest artist to be created in the Disney mould.

  • Review: All Time Low – Future Hearts

    Future Hearts is sure to be a hit with the Baltimore quartet’s current listeners, but it is not the game-changing album it could have been.

  • Review: East India Youth – Culture Of Volume

    As a second album, it sadly does not achieve the experimental potential that East India Youth presented in Total Strife Forever, and its flow is hindered by the unusual length of his songs.

  • Review: Circa Waves – Young Chasers

    Circa Waves’ hotly anticipated debut comes crashing in, and with irresistible festival-ready choruses it’s guitar pop at its finest. It’s nothing new, but who cares when you have a great time listening to it?

  • Review: Kintsugi – Death Cab for Cutie

    Emotionally moving and heart-wrenchingly honest, this album cannot be missed by alternative rock fanatics.

  • Review: Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit

    Courtney Barnett creates excitement out of the mundane with her debut album.

  • Review: Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming

    Records editor Hannah reviews the duo’s debut album.

  • Review: Hudson Taylor – Singing for Strangers

    After years of EP releases – and a performance at SUSU’s The Bridge – the Irish folk duo, Hudson Taylor, have released their debut album. Taking inspiration from their early days of busking, the album has been aptly named Singing for Strangers which couldn’t reflect the band’s nature in a better way. The Dublin-born brothers have […]

  • Review: The Cribs – For All My Sisters

    The Cribs’ sixth studio album is both brooding and melodic, covering an exciting spectrum of tone, pace and moo

  • Review: Laura Marling – Short Movie

    Marling has produced an album glowing with her own patented brand of wistful, nostalgic honesty, while shaking things up just enough to stand on its own.

  • Rewind: Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

    As Bob Dylan plugged in to rock’n’roll stardom, many of his fans switched off. 50 years on, Bringing It All Back Home is no less infamous and continues to provide influence.

  • Review: Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

    Drake burst back onto the scene with a surprise mixtape, and boy has he delivered. Many of the Canadian rapper’s fans were led to believe that his next offering would be in the form of Views From The 6, which was announced as his next album back in July 2014. What we weren’t expecting was […]