On paper, a side project like DRINKS looks like a safe bet. On the one hand you’ve got Cate Le Bon, by now an established and critically acclaimed Welsh expat known for the unique blending […]
Let’s catch up on an album that’s gotten some buzz online but will likely be missed by the masses. It’s Y Dydd Olaf, the first solo album of Gwenno Saunders (formerly of The Pipettes) and […]
Is Another One a new Mac DeMarco album or not? It’s certainly a question up for debate through this review and the release itself. The label call it a ‘mini-LP’ but Mac has referred to […]
It’s been quite a year for Girlpool, the band formed by Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad that doesn’t need a drummer to make some serious noise. Having initially released their self-titled debut EP on Bandcamp […]
I Don’t Want To Let You Down is a somewhat surprisingly quick follow up to Sharon Van Etten’s highly acclaimed album Are We There? released around the same time last year with 4 brand new […]
When Mackenzie Scott under the moniker of Torres released her self-titled debut in early 2013, it was a nice, quaint folk album that hinted at great potential but ultimately went a little underlooked in a […]
Although it takes a little time to get into, Waxahatchee’s third album Ivy Tripp further refines and develops what’s always been endearing about the Philly based singer-songwriter. Waxahatchee is the by any other name solo project […]
With The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Doldrums steps out on the shadows and gives his weird electronic stylings something that can cross into some mainstream appeal. What can we say of Canadian musician Airick Woodhead? Well he […]
It’s been fascinating watching Courtney Barnett’s journey over the past few years, in the way that it’s grown in such an organic way that I don’t think I’ve seen in my time. Originally releasing two […]
Screaming Females have been around for almost a decade, but again for this review I’m either the best or worst person to review their sixth album Rose Mountain, since I’ve never actually listened to any […]
The Wave Pictures have been around a good 15+ years, but ask most people (myself included 2 years ago) and unless they have an encyclopedic knowledge or maybe an older Brother rooted in underground scenes they probably […]
Even in today’s instant download, Bandcamp upload world where even Beyonce can drop an album out of nowhere while you went to bed early for work the next morning, 2 years from your first ever […]
No Cities To Love is technically my first Sleater-Kinney album, not counting their 1994 debut that I listened to a few months ago. It’s not out of blatant ignorance. Like everyone, I’ve got those bands […]
A band with a name like Viet Cong could have gone all so wrong. Artwork devoid of colour, their name taken from a place in time many people still aren’t comfortable discussing, in most cases […]
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