Category: Albums

“Are you ready to rock steady easy crew?”

Eminem and Royce da 5’9″ have great chemistry, just struggle with the music side

Hazy, lazy Indie-folk from San Francisco’s Vetiver

Can Foster The People build on the success of ‘Pumped Up Kicks’?

Indie-rockers Pete and the Pirates release One Thousand Pictures- is it any good?

Arctic Monkeys’ latest offering proves to be a grower…

Weird Al returns with his latest offering, parodying the likes of Gaga, Cyrus and B.o.B to prove he’s still the benchmark in comedy music.

Is Fleet Foxes second album as brilliant as their debut?

Eddie Argos finally sings – but does it pay off?

“Flabby and frustrating” – Running out of patience with WIlson and co.

Rival Sons attempt to distinguish classic rock in 2011 from nostaligia acts with their label début Pressure and Time.

Darren Hayman is the former singer and main brain behind indie rock group Hefner.  He’s a solo artist now, and the music he makes has a more stripped-down folky quality, but with the same feeling and the same themes.  Darren’s songs are melodic, tender, and the lyrics are almost invariably acerbically witty.  They have a […]

As the title of the album, itself something of a contradiction, might imply, this is a fusion of two areas that you may not expect Metronomy to follow after the indie-disco sounds of Nights Out in 2008. The English Riviera breaks out into something more expansive, and overall successfully merges the ‘80s inspired dance with […]

The problem with making a second album is your first album. Should an artist keep the same style or revolutionise completely? Often either choice results in a backlash of mediocre review responses. However, we find ourselves sat on the verge of the summer, about to roll joyously down the hill into festival season; the timing […]