Music and words have a profound, but complicated relationship; often the former matters more than the latter, although a great … More
Category: New Releases
Personal Trainer – Still Willing review
Personal Trainer are effectively Willem Smit and a rotating cast of others, a collective by any other name that first … More
Blur – Live At Wembley Stadium review
Wembley can be your field of dreams, or a crucible of disappointment; in the run up to Blur’s two landmark … More
Cults – To The Ghosts review
It’s more than a little niche over thirty years on, but the Twin Peaks spinoff movie Fire, Walk With Me … More
Robin Guthrie – Atlas EP review
It’s a fractious world, and given that a Cocteau Twins reunion is only marginally less likely than a Nirvana one, … More
Highly Suspect – As Above, So Below review
What used to be a fine line between derivation, parody and the real thing is so blurred now that it … More
Cigarettes After Sex – X’s review
Many many years ago that so-noughties platform Facebook used to have a thing where you could set your relationship status; … More
Washed Out – Notes From A Quiet Life review
For Ernest Greene – AKA Washed Out – the titular reference to a gentler existence was sincere; having moved from … More
Joe Goddard – Harmonics review
You get by with a little help from your friends is almost the title of an old song, but on … More
Fink – Beauty In Your Wake review
As recording locations go, few sound more idyllic than a converted chapel in a tiny Cornish village, but for Fin … More