You may not immediately think hip-hop when you think of Alt-J, but in truth the influences have always been there. The band themselves have been open in their love of the genre, and the clever intricacy of beats and rhythms across their career have always leant themselves to the…
The first album to be released on their own Seradom label, AAARTH finds The Joy Formidable at their most comfortable. Their newfound freedom has clearly benefited them on a creative level. The Welsh group’s fourth record places them at the forefront of aggressive, yet still intelligent sounding, guitar-based music, as…
‘Unique’ is an oft-overused piece of hyperbole in the music world. However, if anyone is, it is Héloïse Letissier. Announcing herself to the world as Christine and the Queens with 2014’s Chaleur Humaine, her strand of intelligent pop music wow’ed both the critical and commercial world. Taking her time with…
The world is a mess. Media deciding on our behalf what is and what isn’t ‘fake news’. Front page headlines screaming ‘Crush The Saboteurs’. Your every move online tracked and marketed by faceless corporations. As reality creeps ever nearer to the plot of George Orwell’s classic 1984, a few…
After his recent psychedelic noise explorations, Paul Weller has returned to a more acoustic and gentle style on True Meanings, his 14th solo studio album. While there is little here to raise the pulse, instead what he has produced is a record that is perhaps his most cohesive and…
The EU Referendum, and its noxious aftermath, is STILL the big news of the day, as the countdown to the UK’s exit from the EU continues, people of all political persuasions (and even those who swear non-allegiance) in conversation about it all. What a Pandora’s box! While it could…
Villagers’ arrival on the scene back in 2010 came at a fortuitous time. While acoustic-based music was doing well in the charts (with the likes of Mumford and Sons and Ed Sheeran dismantling them for their own pleasure), the Irish band rode the wave and came out with a Mercury…
The Blue Hour is every bit as cold and earthy as its name suggests. It’s an album filled with ideas of dead birds and decay. The sound of old stone filled with weeds and rusted fences. This is pretty familiar territory for Suede by this point. This is one of…
For a band as prolific as BROCKHAMPTON have been, 2018 has been a quiet year for the “World’s best boy band”. Sure, they finally came over to Europe and absolutely killed it, including heroic sets at Reading and Leeds Festival and two sold-out shows at London’s KOKO. Sure, they dropped…
“It’s been tough getting to this point, but through those grey clouds we were able to find strength in our music and create something pure”, stated Dilly Dally on the release of their second record, Heaven. So it was, with various factors creating a three year gap between first and…