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It is difficult to believe that the album that shot Arctic Monkeys into the limelight, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, was released sixteen years ago. At the time of its release, […]
Just six months after the release of their twelfth studio album, the lengthy Unlimited Love, the Red Hot Chili Peppers return with their thirteenth effort, the equally extensive Return of the Dream Canteen. The latest offering was […]
Forty years after their seminal New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) album, Simple Minds are back with their 18th studio LP, Direction of the Heart. Incredibly, the former classic was the culmination of a period that saw […]
I Don’t Belong Anywhere is October Drift’s follow-up to their debut album Forever Whatever in 2020. The Taunton quartet have been playing most of their lives (since age 13) and are Alex Bispham (bass), Chris […]
London-based four-piece climb to new heights with their best album to date. Album releases post-pandemic can be a curious thing. It feels a lot of artists were forced back to the drawing board. Tours were […]
The 1975 are back with their fifth album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language. Produced by Jack Antonoff, this album is innovative in the typical 1975 style and explores the band’s musical prowess. There’s a […]
Nine albums in, Gavin Rossdale and co, are more than surviving; they are thriving with their best album in decades. I’ve always been fascinated by the career of Bush. They are a band that, when you […]
While walking the grounds of the Provinssirock Festival, Ian Astbury found himself taking in the surreal experience of the ‘midnight sun’ during the summer months when the sun doesn’t set north of the Arctic Circle. […]
Fans of the collaboration Broken Bells have had a lengthy wait for the third instalment to their discography. That wait is over as Broken Bells releases Into the Blue. The album is an amalgamation of […]
Almost two decades ago, Dropkick Murphys covered Woody Guthrie’s “Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight” on their 2003 album Blackout. The idea of using Guthrie’s unreleased lyrics for a future Dropkick Murphys album has since been […]
On Sept 30th, sublime chillwave and techno artist Tycho releases his contribution to the Back To Mine album series. Over two decades, the Back to Mine compilation series has released mix albums from renowned DJs, […]
It wouldn’t be a Pixies LP without having to reach for the thesaurus or dictionary at least once. Doggerel is a comic verse composed in an unusual or irregular rhythm. It could be argued that […]
Having enjoyed a thirty-two-year career, it’s entirely plausible to think that Charlatans’ frontman Tim Burgess may have exhausted the limits of his creative brain cells. Yet, if the last two years are to go by, […]
New Zealand indie-rock band The Beths releases their third album, Expert In A Dying Field, a 12-track gathering of autobiographical songs about the aftereffects of elapsed, intimate relationships, be they platonic or romantic. In essence, […]
This album arrived on the day I managed to get tickets for Suede’s March 2023 gig at the O2 Academy in Glasgow, a gig I’ll be going to with my three friends, repeating our first […]
This twenty-first-anniversary edition of Know Your Enemy doesn’t feature the LP in its original track order. Instead, the first set of songs under the title of Door to the River feature, to use laypeople’s terms, […]
One of the key concepts behind Parkway Drive’s latest offering, Darker Still, is a Tom Waits quote that emblazons frontman Winston McCall’s refrigerator in his Byron Bay home; “I want beautiful melodies telling me terrible […]
I spent nine months during the pandemic living with my parents in rural west Clare; in the midst of the world falling apart, the appreciation of where I am from sored in heights my teenage […]
This ninth Muse offering makes a departure from their previous venture, Simulation Theory, where the rock trio stepped into a metaverse. Now, Muse confronts the tumultuous global reality on Will of the People. Whilst Muse […]
After finding fame and success as one-half of the Kiwi comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, writer, actor, comedian and musician Bret McKenzie attempts to shed the irony and comedy that he’s known for on […]