For Polly Jean Harvey repetition is the scourge of creativity. During the process of making her last album, 2016’s The…
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #55 Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At?
Released: 2001 Pop culture history has revealed one truth way more times than any other: what goes around, comes around.…
Django Django – Off Planet Review
You could almost feel the eye roll whoever wrote the press release which accompanied copies of Off Planet landing people’s…
Kraftwerk – Live In Dublin review
Responding in 1998 to criticism of The Fall’s promiscuous line up changes, singer Mark E. Smith famously quipped, “If it’s…
July 2023’s New Music Playlist
Get the playlist here. Update 14.07.23 More, more, more from Disclosure, Beck, Little Dragon, The Streets, Troye Sivan, Cherry Glazerr,…
bdrmm – I Don’t Know review
That’s the thing about expectations – if you don’t really have any, it’s very hard to undershoot them. bdrmm started…
Grian Chatten – Chaos for The Fly review
Such was the velocity of Fontaines D.C.’s ascent – their third album in four years, 2022’s Skinty Fia was their…
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #56 The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House
Released: 2002 Where to go for punk in the decade without a name? Whereas it’s old sparring partner metal had…
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #57 Klaxons – Golden Skans
Released: 2007 It’s a much repeated theme of this decade but the rapidly diminishing influence of the print music press…
Gengahr – Red Sun Titans review
Sometimes you can have too much time to think. Following the release of Gengahr’s third album Sanctuary in early 2020…