Category: Albums


  • Review: 5 Seconds of Summer – 5 Seconds of Summer

    Boasting co-writers ranging from All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth to Busted’s James Bourne, self-titled album 5 Seconds of Summer shows some of the bands potential, but lacks variation and is riddled with cheesy clichéd lyrics.

  • Review: Rise Against – The Black Market

    Chicago punk rockers Rise Against are back, three years after the hugely successful ‘Endgame’, with a cathartic but nevertheless powerful seventh album.

  • Vance Joy premieres new single, announces debut album

    Vance Joy’s new single ‘Mess Is Mine’ has been released.

  • Review: Honeyblood – Honeyblood

    Proof that songs that would have sounded endearingly teenaged in a low-quality bathroom recording session unfortunately don’t always survive the leap to studio-quality sound.

  • Jungle – Jungle

    Jungle’s self-titled début hits shelves on July 14th. But does it live up to the hype? Megan Downing reviews.

  • Review: Slow Club – Complete Surrender

    Laden with powerful vocals and grand instrumental backdrops, Slow Club’s latest album definitely presents a more mature and sophisticated Taylor and Watson.

  • Review: Ed Sheeran – X (Deluxe Edition)

    Ed Sheeran’s return looks set to be divisive.

  • Review: Linkin Park – The Hunting Party

    Linkin Park go back to their roots and produce one beast of a record.

  • clipping. – CLPPNG

    clipping. are a rap trio like no other, Evan Smithson tells us why we should be listening to the groups sophomore album.

  • Album review: First Aid Kit – Stay Gold

    While they wrestle with regrets and personal issues, it is with conviction that First Aid Kit perform, to make this their most optimistic body of work yet.

  • Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour

    In The Lonely Hour lives up to the relentless hype machine surrounding 21 year old singer-songwriter, Sam Smith.

  • Coldplay – Ghost Stories

    It may be the fastest selling album of 2014 so far, but don’t take that as an indicator of quality.

  • Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like A Bell

    With The Moon Rang Like A Bell, Hundred Waters have struck second-album gold, exploring new ground while never losing sight of their established style.

  • Clean Bandit – New Eyes

    Clean Bandit have burst onto the scene with infectious single ‘Rather Be’, but does their knack for a catchy rhythm have the staying power to last a whole album?