Released: 2024 When a musician effectively declares themselves as uninterested in the process of recognition it usually prompts their existing … More
Author: arcticreviewsblog
Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
Turnstile – Never Enough review
There’s a lot of noise around Turnstile, so if you don’t want to read much further, the headline in front … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #60 bdrmm – Clarkycat
Released: 2025 The line between shoegaze and electronica is sometimes so thin that artists are allowed to slip effortlessly between … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s So Far #61 Adult DVD – Bill Murray
Released: 2022 What with all this talk of Artificial Intelligence n’ that, plagiarism is very much the enemy of creativity … More
Pulp – More review
Twenty-four years. Don’t call it a comeback. If you want to understand one of the reasons why, after more than … More
June 2025’s New Music Playlist – Update 20.06
Get the list here. Updated with juicy new morsels from Alison Goldfrapp, Suede, Ethel Cain, Biffy Clyro, Bicep, Actress, Hamish … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 20’s so Far #62 Joyce Wrice ft. Lucky Daye – Falling In Love
Released: 2021 Kelefa Saneh’s excellent book on music history Major Labels breaks everything down into seven of it’s major constituents, … More
May 2025’s Album of The Month
Album of The Month Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film Read about it here. Also great: Matt Berninger – … More
Matt Berninger – Get Sunk review
As a writer it really helps when what you’re faced with has a story. People connect with stories; being curious … More
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing review
Such is the cynicism endemic to this period in twenty first century history, Crooked Wing‘s premise at first sounds like … More
The Voice Of Unreason 