After teaming up with her half sister, Lucy Roche, for 2015's Songs In The Dark, the Canadian singer-songwriter returns with her first solo album since 2012’s Come Home To Mama. That record was partially a response to the death of her mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, as well as…
New album, new territory. Bonobo’s previous album may have cracked the code for mainstream appeal, but Migration is far from a complacent offering from Simon Green. Yes, it carries definite markers of Bonobo’s character: it embraces the cleaner textures of his later releases, while staying true to the home-made…
The xx have been considered a goto staple for British indie electronica since their self-titled debut back in 2009. With their newest release I See You, the London three-piece have shown a new, more rounded and mature side to their sound, all nicely wrapped up in one ten…
Dylan Baldi has been working under the moniker of Cloud Nothings for six years now and in that time he has formulated a recipe for a sound that leans heavily upon a nihilistic, indignant punk-rock. Tangled guitars rest upon tumbles of rhythm that gives his sound swathes of…
Loyle Carner releases a nigh on faultless slice of hip-hop perfection. A few years ago it looked like UK hip-hop’s sun was setting. The list of artists who were releasing great music was dwindling, and all the names and groups that had been lauded, were almost all gone…
Christopher Taylor, also known by his alias SOHN, is the London producer who has now taken his sound around the world in aid of recording something new. Initially from London, he moved to Vienna for his debut, Tremors, which was released back in 2015. Now on his sophomore…
The Flaming Lips are a curious beast and their latest offering, 14th studio album Oczy Mlody, is no exception. Named after a phrase found in an old Polish paperback that frontman Wayne Coyne discovered in a second hand bookshop, the album follows a loose concept that is embraced in…
The LA-based group, Foxygen, comprising of Sam France and Jonathan Rado have long been considered in a league of their own when it comes to their eclectic output as a group. Their previous two albums, 2013’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic and 2014’s…
There have been some great duet acts in the past: Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Sonny and Cher, Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston. Well, please add a new combo to the list – in Gentlewoman, Ruby Man, Flo Morrissey and Matthew E White have created an album that sounds…
Sundara Karma have become one of the UK’s biggest breakthrough act of the past year and their debut album, Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect, is one of the most highly-anticipated albums. Over the past few years, the boys from Reading have undoubtedly managed to break their…