Released : 2018 Donald Glover’s metaphor-drenched film for This is America proved that as a visual medium, the pop video … 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.
The 100 Greatest Songs of the Decade – The story so far
Last week the countdown reached number 50, the halfway point of a journey taking an alternative look at how the … More
100 Greatest Songs of The 2010’s #50 Bibio – Phantom Brickworks III
Released: 2017 Stephen Wilkinson’s ninth studio album was an excercise in visualisation and dexterity, about seeing fragments of history, people … More
Squid – Town Centre EP review
Squid are a quintet whose members met at Brighton University and are the latest in a line of British bands … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #51 Foals – A Knife In The Ocean
Released : 2015 Such is the nature of the music industry in this decade without a name that Foals are … More
Belle & Sebastian – Days of The Bagnold Summer OST review
Days of The Bagnold Summer is a soundtrack album with a difference: based on Joff Winterhearts’ bittersweet graphic novel, the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #52 Billie Marten – Bird
Released : 2015 Without wanting to sound…odd, there’s something richly mystical about a young voice that a more trained one … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #53 Fetty Wap – Trap Queen
Released : 2015 Weird how one guy’s pop is another’s poison: Trap Queen is a far slicker than it seems … More
Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse review
Despite being lumbered with some of the most awful album artwork of 2019, it’s all too good to be stuck on a hard drive somewhere.
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #54 (Thee) Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler
Released: 2011 Confession time: picking your favourite Oh Sees tune is a fairly arbitrary task, such is the Fall-like work … More
