Get the latest album reviews and music reviews from your favourite global bands and artists. Featuring new Album Reviews, from Rock, Indie, Electronic, Alternative, Pop, and much more. All the best new music!
There has been a retro revival of early ‘80s electronic music over the last ten years or so with a constant conveyor belt of new artists eager to create the analogue sounds of synth pioneers […]
Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner are the duo better known as Tune-Yards, and their excellent fifth album, released by 4AD, is called Sketchy. The 11 songs have been inspired by the Beastie Boys, Book and […]
In 2000, Oasis released the single “Sunday Morning Call”, seven years earlier in 1993, Oasis’ brit-pop rivals Blur released “Sunday Sunday”. The Antlers singer and primary songwriter Peter Silberman decided to do something bolder with […]
The Bitter Truth is an album that Evanescence fans have been waiting on for almost a decade, and it doesn’t disappoint. The album was planned to be released in late 2020 but due to the […]
Folk singer-songwriter Jack Symes has a knack for taking the commonplace and imbuing it with significance. He discovers meaning in fragments of life most people overlook and gives those splinters of time relevance. On his […]
In Bell Orchestre’s first release in over a decade, they dabble with classical and electronic music in one improvisational session on their latest album, House Music. Sonically it’s an accomplished work; however, the instrumentation sometimes […]
Belfast’s New Pagans bombastic debut delivers a rich, gothic tapestry of intelligent, indie-rock energy. It’s been just over twelve months since the release of the Glacial Erratic EP by New Pagans. That project was unleashed […]
16 years after their last album, Arab Strap delves back into the late-night debauchery, sexual honesty and grim humour Aidan Moffet had drawled about since their emergence in the ’90s. Moffet once again lays bare […]
When an artist who is best known as a member of a band releases a solo album, that album is often held up to a standard of having to justify its existence as something separate […]
Despite emerging on the music scene in the early 2000s in hippy style dress with a strong Nashville sound to their rock style, it was the Brit’s who first embraced the Followills, not the Americans. […]
“Like water through cracks, we creep and trickle-down”, sings Ian Hodgson on the opening track to the first Bradford album in over 30 years, very much summing up the underrated and “could’ve been” status of […]
The intriguing but relatively unknown music career of composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jules Maxwell has been diverse, to say the least, and began in rather unlikely circumstances. Although he studied music at school, it was […]
Once you spend any time delving into Lycia Luce’s life, you realize she was predestined to make music. However, you begin to wonder if her musical outpourings would be different if she hadn’t been raised […]
Marking 40 years since a gig in St. Helen’s technical college, this newly discovered bootleg of the performance screams through your ears as proof that The Fall are more relevant than ever. Discovered by chance […]
25 years on from the release of their debut single, what could we possibly expect from another new Mogwai album? It’s become something of a cliché to state how consistent the Scottish group are, however […]
Smith & Burrows deliver beautiful, unpretentious pop perfection that is so much more than just “good enough”. They return as their self-named moniker, a decade after their festive 2011 debut Funny Looking Angels. The acoustic […]
The name Pale Waves evokes visions of creamy, sparkly dream-pop or shoegaze before assuming the creation of artifice. Yet Pale Waves definitely slot neatly into the indie-pop category, especially with the release of their latest […]
There’s a familiarity in A. Smyth’s debut album Last Animals that would have you thinking you’re listening to an artist who has been around you your whole life. Its ten tracks are delivered with confidence and sure […]
Django Django captures the essence and excitement of live music in their new album, Glowing In The Dark. It’s a living breathing project that marries texture and accomplished songwriting. The album bubbles, spits and pops […]
Puma Blue is 25-year-old South Londoner, singer/songwriter Jacob Allen. He once described his moniker as an “imagined character who is a half washed-up drunk, half big cat, just slumped in a barstool and reeking of […]