Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott review

If there was only one musician you could give complete license to for feeling bitter about where luck has taken … More

Hatchie – Giving The World Away review

Hatchie – AKA Harriette Pilbeam – had decided not long after it’s release that the sound of her 2019 debut … More

Belle And Sebastian – A Bit of Previous review

The title of Belle and Sebastian’s tenth studio album was inspired by the Buddhist precept of reincarnation, a notion that … More

Rolling Blackouts, Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms review

The idea of a lock down album has long become reductive; whilst most confinements were in a basic sense physically … More

C Duncan – Alluvium review

The past is history and history is the past and what we choose to do with it depends on mood … More

Let’s Eat Grandma – Two Ribbons review

Without doubt it’s the hard experiences that shape our lives definitively as opposed to the good; such is the way … More

Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia review

You couldn’t put a finger on when it happened, but how did we become so attached to place? Rather than … More

Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity review

Opening tracks don’t come more intense than Protect Us From Evil which begins Ibibio Sound Machine’s fourth album Electricity. Singer … More

Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems review

In 2021 Baltimore skatecore band Turnstile – not that labels are starting to mean much in the fractured mess of … More

Wet Leg – Wet Leg review

By the end of 2021 you had to have been living in outer space not to have heard Chaise Longue, … More