The Mercury Music Prize has attracted plenty of criticism in recent years for a supposed ladding-up of its shortlisting and … More
Category: Features
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
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
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.
Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place review
Rather than stop working and admire their achievement after the release of 2017’s Weather Diaries, Ride went almost straight back … More
Chance The Rapper – The Big Day review
Nothing brings everyone together like a wedding and Chancellor “Chance” Bennett loves them so much he’s made a concept album … More
Oasis’ Definitely Maybe – 25 Years On
A few weeks ago, I was on a bus packed with football fans returning home from a match. With everyone … More
Blanck Mass – Animated Violence, Mild review
The best part about being sat on the outside is the gift of being able to see what’s inside the … More
slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain review
The titular opener describes a place which has completely lost it’s way and finishes with a vignette in which he calls it’s Queen a c**t, the sort of polemic which it goes without saying was always going to provoke a response of equal and opposite extremity.
The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears review
Like their counterparts Fontaines DC this is a band who, on the evidence of When I Have Fears, deserve our full attention.
