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Album review: Allo Darlin’–‘We Come From The Same Place’
Allo Darlin’ are a fun indie-pop band based in London, although singer Elizabeth Morris and bassist Bill Botting are both actually from Australia, while guitarist Paul Rains and drummer Michael Collins...
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Album review: Johnny Marr –‘Playland’
Johnny Marr, best known for his work with The Smiths, embarked on a solo career in 2013 when releasing his debut album The Messenger. Whilst having elements of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ about...
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Album review: Slipknot –‘.5: The Gray Chapter’
Slipknot are one of the biggest and most successful acts in the metal scene, but they’re not without controversy. Since the release of their last album All Hope Is Gone in 2008, the band sadly suffered...
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Album review: Machine Head –‘Bloodstone & Diamonds’
Influenced by groove metal heavyweights Pantera, Machine Head have created an anthemic sound which incorporates elements of thrash metal alongside incredibly catchy choruses since their formation in...
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Album review: Damien Rice –‘My Favourite Faded Fantasy’
On 3rd November, the music industry recovered from an eight-year hiatus with the return of powerful artist Damien Rice and his new album, My Favourite Faded Fantasy. This album is something fans of...
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Album review: The Ting Tings – Super Critical
Manchester-based duo The Ting Tings released their third album, Super Critical, last month. Since the release their near-perfect indie pop debut We Started Nothing in 2008, vocalist and guitarist Katie...
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Album review: Fall Out Boy –‘American Beauty/American Psycho’
“Some legends are told / Some turn to dust or to gold”, goes the opening line of ‘Centuries’, the first single taken from Fall Out Boy’s new album American Beauty/American Psycho. It is a line that can...
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Album review: Sleater-Kinney –‘No Cities To Love’
Back in the 90s, Sleater-Kinney were regarded as one of the most innovative alternative rock bands on the planet, releasing seven consistent albums before breaking up in August 2006. Since then,...
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Album review: Charli XCX –‘Sucker’
London-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Aitchison, better known as Charli XCX, started her career by self-recording an album at only 14 years old. After releasing her EP You’re The One in June 2012,...
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Album review: The Prodigy –‘The Day Is My Enemy’
What did the fox say? “Get your fight on!” A dark, sleek fox, prowling like Godzilla over the ruins of a terrified city, paints the picture of Prodigy’s latest album, The Day Is My Enemy. A silent...
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Album review: The Vaccines- English Graffiti
The Vaccines burst onto the scene in 2011 with the year’s best selling debut album, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? – only before grabbing the #1 spot a year later with their second effort Come...
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Album review: Kid Rock –‘First Kiss’
Kid Rock began his music career as a rap and hip-hop performer before jumping into the mainstream with nu-metal hits such as ‘Bawitdaba’ and ‘American Badass’, the latter notably “borrowing” the riff...
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Album review: Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Gone is the angelic pluck of Lungs’ string arrangement, gone is the thunderous drumming of Ceremonials. The music that now accompanies the punch of Welch’s unmistakeable vocals is a rockier, far...
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Album review: Tame Impala- ‘Currents’
Tame Impala, one of Australia’s shining lights, fronted by the ubiquitous Kevin Parker, found critical acclaim with their two previous efforts InnerSpeaker and Lonerism. They showed a knack for the...
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Album review: The Maccabees- ‘Marks To Prove It’
The evolving indie rock scene has seen acts such as The Vaccines and Arctic Monkeys graduate beyond the thrash of early records. Marks To Prove It follows in the same vein; a record with a more mature,...
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Album review: Lianne La Havas –‘Blood
Lianne La Havas may only be 25, but she croons with a voice that seems well travelled. However, her debut, Is Your Love Big Enough?, at times portrayed La Havas in an innocent light, allowing her...
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Album review: Jess Glynne- ‘I Cry When I Laugh’
(Credit: wikimedia.org) The highly anticipated debut album from the exceptionally talented Jess Glynne has just hit the summer charts. I Cry When I Laugh had been tipped for brilliance from the off,...
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Album review: Bring Me The Horizon –‘That’s The Spirit’
English metal band Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) have returned with their fifth studio record That’s The Spirit and it brings some ambitious changes in style. The band has made some big changes to their...
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Album review: Twenty One Pilots –‘Blurryface’
(Credit:www.thenationalstudent.com Blurryface is Twenty One Pilots’ fourth studio album. The American duo released the record on 17th May 2015 after almost a two-year long break. Although the musicians...
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Album review: Disclosure- Caracal
Having scored an NME Award for Best Track in 2014 with ‘White Noise’ and a number one in the UK album chart with their debut Settle, Disclosure have set a pretty high bar for themselves already with...
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Album review: Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
The slow, morose pace of Honeymoon seems to saunter towards the funeral parlour and on this journey, Lana Del Rey seems to have woken up from the American Dream. Her debut Born To Die spawned singles...
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Album review: Nothing But Thieves – Nothing But Thieves
It has been an exciting past year or so for Nothing But Thieves, who have just released their self-titled debut album. The five-piece, who formed in Southend, have already toured with the likes of Muse...
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Album review: Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit – Special Edition
In September 2013, Gregory Porter released his third album Liquid Spirit to widespread acclaim. What caught the attention of many of his listeners was not just Porter’s smooth, cascading vocals but his...
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Album review: The Neighbourhood –‘Wiped Out!
The Neighbourhood sent the internet into paralysis with their single ‘Sweater Weather’ in 2013 so naturally their sophomore album brings with its release a lot of expectations. Wiped Out! is in the...
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Album review: Ellie Goulding – Delirium
It seems a long time ago that Ellie Goulding burst into the mainstream, by topping the BBC’s ’Sound of 2010’ poll and winning the Critics’ Choice Award at the Brit Awards that same year. Two hugely...
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Album review: Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams
It’s been fifteen years since Chris Martin wandered across Studland Bay in the video for ‘Yellow’, while Coldplay’s previous six albums have seen them tackle an array of subgenres. They began with...
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Album review: Pusha T – King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pusha T returns to the limelight with a project that serves as a prelude to his upcoming third album, the highly anticipated King Push which is scheduled for release in April. Despite the fact that...
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Album review: Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
Kanye West perplexed fans after announcing that his seventh studio album was to be called The Life of Pablo. Picasso? Escobar? Zabaleta? Questions were asked. Not least because this was a project which...
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Album review: Beyoncé – Lemonade
Beyoncé, who started the surprise visual album trend, has gone and done it again by releasing the hour-long Lemonade, her sixth studio album. It first aired on HBO and was made exclusively available...
View ArticleJEFFERY: Young Thug’s Free-Spirited, Gender Fluid Hip-Hop Snarls at Misogyny
Last July, Young Thug featured alongside the reclusive Frank Ocean for Calvin Klein, clad in a plain white vest and a pair of audacious gold trousers and I couldn’t help but mirror the individuals....
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The Divine Feminine: Mixing Frat Rap with Pheromones
Pittsburg rapper Mac Miller has changed his sound with every project he’s released. With four studio albums, eleven mixtapes and a couple of EPs since 2007, it was kind of hard for him not to. However,...
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AlunaGeorge’s I Remember – Thriving on an Inability to be Labelled
I Remember is electronic duo AlunaGeorge’s second studio album. The two-piece consists of vocalist and song-writer Aluna Francis and producer George Reid. The London duo’s unique, hard-to-label sound...
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Less Revolution, More Salvation
The iconic pop punk trio, Green Day, have been in a bit of a musical rut for the past few years. Their 2004 smash hit comeback and seventh album American Idiot became their most critically and...
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A Tribe Called Quest go out on top with their Sixth and Final Album
A Tribe Called Quest have delivered a fantastic goodbye on their final album We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 The Service. The album also serves a tribute to member Phife Dawg, who died suddenly in...
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Retro Review: Looking back at The Doors’ Classic Album, L.A. Woman
LA Woman is The Doors’ 6th studio album, and in my opinion their best. Opening up with ‘The Changeling’, Ray Manzarek hits the ground running with a grooving organ line that echoes throughout the...
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A Socially Conscious Return from Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys is a fully established musical force in the R&B world and has been in the spotlight since 2000. She returns with her sixth studio album and first since 2012’s pop-orientated Girl On...
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Sleigh Bells’ Jessica Rabbit isn’t at the top of our Christmas Lists
Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller, better known as Sleigh Bells, are back with their fourth studio album, Jessica Rabbit. The duo arrived on the scene with their raucous 2010 album Treats and have never...
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Less Starboy, More Black Hole
The Weeknd returns with his third album Starboy, an uninspired, bland and incredibly dull affair. Lyrics have never been The Weeknd’s strong point, and there’s nothing much to say about them on here....
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Night People Review – You Me At Six Ditch Punk Angst for Pulsating Pop-Rock
Surrey alternative rock band You Me at Six have released their fifth album, Night People. Having announced another UK tour for April recently, the lads are truly going places once again. First up is...
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Migos’ Culture has the Boujee, but it Lacks Consistency
Culture is the sophomore album by the dynamic trap trio Migos. Originally titled No Label 3 and set to drop in October 2016, the album went through a massive overhaul. The project retains Migos’ sound...
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Nothing Feels Natural Review: Contrary to their Album’s Title, Priests Sound...
Priests are five years deep into their career, but are only just releasing their first proper LP. The result is a more melodic album than their previous EPs, reworking the punch and explosion of their...
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Sampha: Process Review – A Richly Melancholic, Introspective Journey
Since 2010, Sampha has been one of the hardest working and most in-demand musicians despite not releasing his own album until now. He has worked closely with SBTRKT and his sweet and memorable voice...
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Laura Marling: Semper Femina – A Delicate Ode to Femininity
Two years on from the incredible Short Movie, Laura Marling returns with a new album, cementing herself as one of the finest British songwriters of this generation. Her sixth record Semper Femina takes...
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‘As You Were’- Liam Gallagher, exactly as he was
Unlike his post-Oasis career, the record starts with a bang, thanks to the powerful drums and bluesy harmonica of the catchy Wall of Glass. Ladies and gentlemen, Liam Gallagher is back! “What we have...
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The King of Crooning is Crowned Again –‘Nat “King” Cole & Me’ Album review
Gregory Porter has finally revealed his long-awaited love affair with the great crooner Nat “King” Cole, in his latest album release, “Nat ‘King’ Cole & Me”. The album has been critically...
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Kesha: A Technicolour Phoenix From the Ashes
We first heard Kesha’s distinctive sound almost a decade ago in the uncredited background of Pitbull’s 2009 number one ‘Right Round’. But despite having since become a multi-platinum selling artist,...
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Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Review
Justin Timberlake recently performed at Superbowl LII in Minneapolis, generously treating the adoring crowd to some of his greatest hits from the previous years. Sexyback, Senorita, Cry Me A River;...
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Brockhampton: Iridescence Review – Abstract and co refocus well after Ameer...
While it feels like it has been a long time since the band’s last project, the nine-month wait fans have had to endure has been a busy one for the group. Last year the hip-hop collective dropped three...
View ArticleJungle: For Ever Review – pristine portrait derailed by paint-by-numbers...
In 2014, British funk collective Jungle deserted the cultural wilderness with their ironically-titled “Busy Earnin’”, a ubiquitous hit that made more than just an impression on the charts. The track...
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Vince Staples: FM! review – A short, but sweet record that stays true to...
Vince Staples is one of the most captivating figures in Hip-Hop at the moment. His recently released single “Get the F*** off my D***” showed he is undisturbed by all the criticism he receives and...
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