Recent albums which we've reviewed
Mon 22 Sep
Consummate musical intelligence, clarity of expression, fun and satisfying nuance and a distinctive drama run throughout The Acorn's Glory Hope Mountain…
Dartz have dropped the formerly-trendy exclamation mark from their name and, with it, most of the indie-dance leanings of their earlier work…
Hauschka, the alias of Volker Bertelmann, is based in Düsseldorf, but the central German village of Ferndorf is the inspiration lying behind his fourth album. Bertelmann, a classically trained pianist, has come to situate the piano at the heart of his music…
Mon 15 Sep
One second you might be tapping along to something that sounds a bit like the Pixies filtered through No Age-style distortion, and in the next you’re suddenly listening to something which is eerily reminiscent of the Sisters of Mercy hanging out with Black Flag. It’s an exhilarating ride.…
Apparently Amanda Palmer's main reason for choosing to dub The Dresden Dolls' music 'Brechtian punk cabaret' was so people would stop calling them goths…
Toronto’s Ten Kens have much in common with psychedelic rockers Black Mountain - not completely conventional but accessible enough to not alienate…
Though memory suggests the quality of The Coral's singles has been pretty consistent, hearing them in this non-chronological order makes one thing abundantly clear: they're still yet to better the early stuff…
Mon 08 Sep
The second album from Joseph Mount’s Metronomy project immediately aligns itself with such recent 1980s-influenced gems as Neon Neon, Cut Copy and M83's latest: evocative, luminescent and eminently worthy of your time and investment…
Credit should be given where it's due, and the fact that Glasvegas appear to have stumbled upon much of their sound by accident makes their achievements all the more startling.…
The motorik shove of 'I Heard Wonders' is like a slap in the face, an opening salvo of propulsive energy that signals the return of one of music's forward thinkers. This is David Holmes doing what he does best; negotiating his way through the pitfalls of having all the right frames of reference, without emerging with a hash that tastes staler than a week-old doughnut.…
Time, death and the end of the world are fascinations that are obsessed over on Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane, as he laments the world of trash we live in and longs for a more natural escape…
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is an online mixtape; Girl Talk for people who aren't insufferable cunts. And it's free. There really isn't an excuse for not downloading this…
