“The wickedly acerbic persona he presents on the one hand is balanced by an intricate, bruising self portrait that haggles with fear, guilt, jealousy and heartbreak.”
Category: Reviews – 2010’s Releases
Nirvana – In Utero (20th Anniversary Edition) review
“In Utero’s apparent meta-design was to bury the Nirvana brand so deep in angst and recriminations that it would suffocate under the weight of everyone’s collapsed expectations.”
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
“Whilst White Lies and Delphic liked to cloister all their synth pop yearnings in po-faced home counties Gothery, The Vaccines want to fuck to forget us.”
The Weeknd – Thursday
“Tesfaye has previously cameo’d as a kind of Stringer Bell character, a despicable thug-misognyst with an unspecified higher intellectual calling that demands redemption.”
The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
“Gradually light begins to separate from black night; Land Of The Bloody Unknown picks the bones from an ethereal banjo, whilst Hunger Song is a piece of strident hoe-down on which the eight piece remind us that cowboys didn’t just come from Montana.”
Midlake – Antiphon
“If Midlake scored this record as an essay themselves, they’d probably have scribbled in the margins “Progress” in red.”
HAIM – Days Are Gone review
“Maybe the three of them can’t stand each other borrowing their deodorant, or all cheat at Scrabble; they do however make music so unfettered by cool that it’s hard not to love.”
Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Originally Released 26th August 2013. Review originally published 30th September 2013. The problems which dogged the recording of Franz’ last … More
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