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“Scores of people were gathering across from St. Peter’s Church to say goodbye. Hours passed. People were sobbing as the love cry of Albert Ayler spirited the atmosphere. It was as if a saint had died, one who had offered…
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Album Review: Gurriers – Nobody’s Coming To Save You (PIAS)
Gurriers crashed into the Dublin scene with 2024’s Come and See. Aptly named after the 1985 Russian anti-war film, their sound was brash, ominous and jagged. Now, the five-piece are back with plenty of expectation to live up to on…
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Album Review: Beabadoobee – Pylon (Dirty Hit)
Picture the scene. You’re on the open road, in the backseat as someone else drives, and you stare out the window, letting the white lines swing under the car. You’re riding off to a new place, one that you’re not…
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Album Review: Tokyo Tearoom – Feel Forever
Lately, I’ve been feeling as if a lot of new music I hear is being run through an audio compressor, flattening out the peaks and valleys into one great sonic hum. Feel Forever, the second album from Margate-based dream-pop band…
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Album Review: Brandon Flowers – THRASHER (Island Records)
You can hear him trying to get inside the genre, like a man breaking in a new pair of boots, and it’s almost convincing. The problem is that the boots belong to somebody else.
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Album Review: Fletchr Fletchr – On The Island We Call Home
Fletchr Fletchr have been attracting a fair amount of attention recently, confirming their ascension from a mere grassroots band to a fully-fledged group worthy of keeping an eye on. Their follow up EP ‘On The Island We Call Home’ certainly…
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Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
In the time since the release of 2020’s Punisher, the influence of Phoebe Bridgers’ signature confessional songwriting on the wider industry cannot go unnoticed. Of course, Bridgers hails from a long line of pioneers that came before her. Elliot Smith’s…
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Book Review: Ashley Kahn – Days of Miracle and Wonder
Paul Simon is one of those rare artists who was vital as a solo artist, and part of a larger group. Where contemporaries Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan had hit a plateau by the mid 1980’s, Simon landed…
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Album Review: Nina Winder-Lind – Wild Love (Transgressive Records)
After releasing her single This is Our Life towards the end of April, New Eves’ singer Nina Winder-Lind’s debut solo album is finally here. Winder-Lind is an interesting and at times excellent artist, and Wild Love, contains moments of excellence. …
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Single Review: Radie Peat – Still I Love Him (Rough Trade Records)
Radie Peat, the frontwoman of Irish contemporary folk band Lankum, delivers her new solo Single, Still I Love Him, a haunting ballad that sinks out of the speakers and permeates under your skin. In a good way. Still I Love…