Released: 2017 Ah, the YouTube algorithm. Thrower-upper of stuff most stupid or horrible, from pasty faced old guys pretend to … 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.
Vampire Weekend – Father of The Bride review
Ezra Koenig may well the only full time member left of Vampire Weekend, but that hasn’t left him in stasis; … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #88 Deaf Havana – Youth In Retrospect
Released : 2011 Not all the best songs have to be written by Dylan or Lennon and McCartney; the beauty … More
W.H. Lung – Incidental Music review
It’s 2019, so psychedelic music doesn’t come with kaftans, sitars and a flowery painted Rolls Royce, instead as Mancunian trio … More
Interpol – A Fine Mess EP review
At the end of the sessions for Interpol’s sixth album, 2018’s Marauder, the New Yorkers had as usual some leftovers, … More
Bibio – Ribbons review
Stephen Wilkinson – AKA Bibio – continues to remain an engima, making himself absent from playing live, wandering down side … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #89 Neon Indian – Heart:Release
Released: 2011 Here come the internet pedants! Heart:Release doesn’t have words, does that like, mean it’s like, not a *song*? … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #90 A Tribe Called Quest – The Space Program
Released: 2016 So we waited. We put it on. We wandered whether the Grand Old Dukes could still do it … More
Soak – Grim Town review
Sometimes, life imitiates art in the ugliest of ways. Bridie Monds-Watson had created Grim Town as a gigantic metaphor for … More
Fontaines DC – SXSW Interview
“A year ago we were in Dublin, drinking and playing songs” remembers Grian Chatten, the man who fronts Dublin quintet … More
