The Sherlocks’ hotly anticipated debut Live for the Moment is a creature built for success, its top level production turns the album into a collection of singles that will leave a familiar taste in your mouth. It’s the sound of youth, not of today but the same musical…
Part of the so-called ‘new complexity’ movement of bands that includes the likes of early Foals, alt-J and Wild Beasts, Everything Everything have nevertheless been ploughing their own furrow since they burst onto the scene back in the latter part of the last decade. Makers of a distinctively British sound…
It may have been seven years since UNKLE’s last studio album, but James Lavelle has been far from quiet. Inspired by his curation of 2014’s Meltdown Festival on the Southbank, he has kept that same collaborative spirit going and ventured back into the musical mainstream with his fifth studio…
The quickest thing The Cribs have ever recorded, reads the album’s press release. An angry stamp of cynicism, critique and condemnation against bands that sell out. Now into the meat and bones of a 15-year career, it’s nice to know a band that can comfortably pin their musical…
Daniel Lopatin began releasing experimental and ambient electronic music under the Oneohtrix Point Never persona back in 2007 and, since then, has consistently been producing enigmatic and interesting work. Good Time is the latest example of this, a recent winner of the Cannes Soundtrack Award for its part in…
With an overwhelming sense of sinister, uncomfortable peaking sonics and unstoppable driving eerie tones, Ghostpoet (Obaro Ejimiwe) is back with his latest record, Dark Days + Canapés, to create an apocalyptic universe which leaves a solemn hollowed feeling straight to the soul.
Popular Manipulations is the latest epic chapter in the evolution of The Districts and, looking back on the Pennsylvanian foursome’s back catalogue, there were always glimmers of these cathartic sonic explorations. Whilst A Flourish and a Spoil was pretty much recorded completely live, this record is instead much more of…
There's no apparent rhyme or reason as to why Ruarri Joseph decided to dispense with his previous name and rename his band. However, with his new moniker, William the Conqueror are looking down the highways and byways of country-folk, rock and blues, allied to a slacker-grunge bearing, and looking…
Cage Tropical is the sixth solo release from Frankie Rose. She’s a musician with a lot of depth and this release is brimming with ideas. It’s a pop album that’s demanding of the listener and you won’t get the full experience unless you devote your full attention to it.
Formed at the beginning of 2015, Sydney-based duo Ben Gumbleton and Sam Croft, otherwise known as Boo Seeka, met and instantly wrote the song ‘Kingdom Leader’. Two weeks later they were on a national tour and haven’t looked back since. Fast forward two years and the Aussie pair’s debut…