Reviews

Adorned in black with bright ruby-red shoes, and despite this being his first European tour; American solo artist, Patrick Martin, received a tremendous round of applause from the sardine-packed, yet ecstatic, Roundhouse. Despite Martin’s youth […]

XS Noize has shown that there is so much more to music than live music and physical music releases. We have introduced to graphic novels and card games, and now we proudly review our first […]

To celebrate their 25th Anniversary, Snow Patrol have reworked tracks from their back catalogue and added three new ones to show us their hits spanning the decades in a new style. Twenty-five years into a […]

The Script are most definitely back with their sixth album Sunsets and Full Moons, which is being called the sequel to their self-titled debut album (released in 2008). It has been a hard year for […]

The history and development of The Song of the Machine is almost as fascinating as the book itself. Mathias Cousin thought of the idea of producing a graphic novel back in 1995 before there were […]

SYML means “Simple” in Welsh, however, whilst this solo project of Brian Fennel (Barcelona) is pure and honest; the electronic and haunting mystical innovations (alongside organic instruments such as the acoustic guitar) make this outfit […]

Even Buckingham Palace knows how good Anna Meredith is. They saw fit to award her with an MBE earlier this year, after only one studio album! Why read music website reviews when all the recommendations […]

There’s something refreshingly organic about the career path Scottish quartet The Vegan Leather chose for themselves in the lead-up to the release of their album, extolling the virtues of patience and hard work while never […]

My only previous exposure to Mark Lanegan’s music was through his Screaming Trees band as the grunge movement was coming to the fore in the early 90s. For this, his eleventh solo album, I was […]

The much-delayed third album from New Yorkers Anamanaguchi can be viewed as a direct reaction to what’s come before. You don’t take six years to put out a record without some soul-searching along the way, […]

Keeping abreast of the release schedules of Californian garage rock musicians can be a full-time hobby. A scene spearheaded by Ty Segall, John Dwyer and Tim Presley, each year brings about any number of studio […]

Brix & The Extricated are back to release their third studio album Super Blood Wolf Moon on 25th October nearly a year on from their last one Breaking State, which saw them move on from […]

The manga graphic novel is nothing new, it originated in Japan many decades ago. Unfortunately few manga graphic novels (especially not music related manga novels) get translated into English so an audience outside Japan can’t […]

If ever a band’s sound is matched so perfectly to the name of the band itself, it’s this one. Cigarettes After Sex’s music is cinematically seductive and intensely visual – a description that would certainly […]

Dallas Green, Canadian singer/songwriter and founder of the musical entity City and Colour have once again delivered a brilliant new album, “A Pill for Loneliness”. The band’s sixth release is the follow up to their […]

It is hard to believe that this band from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland celebrated their third decade as a musical outfit this year. Whilst a knighthood may not be within Neil Hannon’s reach, his unique blend […]

How many bands can you name that are approaching the end of their second decade without a break, without significant personnel change and without a dropoff in quality? Hot Chip are on a shortlist. Tonight […]

Having just released their debut LP, Mass, King Nun took to the road. XS Noize found Mass an impressive debut. King Nun would now be tested on how well this material would stand up live. […]