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

Confidence Man – Tilt review

For Confidence Man’s Janet Planet, it’s more than just a band name. Tilt opens with Woman, on which the never … More

Babeheaven – Sink Into Me review

What feels like a million years ago the term “bedroom” was a semi-derogatory one for musicians, applied to those who … More

Pictish Trail – Island Family review

They say write about what you know, but what happens when what you see becomes all there is? Being locked … More