This fifth solo album from Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, is probably her most hotly anticipated yet. Her last, self-titled, album came as a bit of a breakthrough for her, although that term ‘breakthrough’ tends to disregard the build-up. After the St. Vincent album came out in 2014 she…
“Solo record, are you fucking tripping dickhead? I’m not a c***”. So said Liam Gallagher back in January 2016, before his memorable announcement a few months later proclaiming that, “it’s official, I’m a c***”. What has followed has been a (at times hilarious) one-man publicity blitz on Twitter,…
Gang of Youths are bona fide stars down under and this record should finally allow them to leave a footprint in the Northern Hemisphere. Under the backdrop of raw emotion, Go Farther in Lightness is sprinkled with the Aussie band’s distinctive soaring guitars, epic strings, glistening synths and lingering…
Household legends The Darkness return with their sixth studio album, Pinewood Smile: a ten-piece rollercoaster of a record which will send you into scenes of complete hilarity, unmitigated chaos and some of the most bizarre aspects of the human mind.
Balancing defiance with hope, Ibeyi’s 2nd album Ash is an unambiguously successful return for the duo. Their explorations of music and culture’s interplay continue on an album that has the power to both purify and galvanise.
Three years on since their last album, home-grown London group My Sad Captains return with their new ten piece record, Sun Bridge, lighting their way into a new ambient indie sound that you can truly melt into.
Alchemy. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In an increasingly busy field, we value more than ever those who can put one and one together and make three. The trick being to make this perfectly palatable; a successful transmutation of varying elements that somehow…
Much like Sampha, Kelela is pretty much already a worldwide known star before dropping her first studio album. Not only has she released some cracking mix-tapes in the past, but she’s featured on some of the biggest albums of the last few years including the Gorillaz comeback album (‘Submission’),…
Time away from your work can make you fall back in love with it again. This has been the case for Canadian indie-rock veterans Wolf Parade, who’ve returned with their first album in seven years. Following the release of Expo 86 they’d run out of steam and couldn’t muster…
When you have friends and admirers such as Conor Oberst and Ryan Adams working on your side, you just know that there is something worth discovering in this LA-based 23 year-old. So it proves with this mature and magnificent debut album. Obscure title aside, Bridgers' stories unfold through…