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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…
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Album Review: Man/Woman/Chainsaw – Cannonball (Fiction Records)
This year I have slipped back from my incessant want to consume music, books, film and all else that makes time pass by. In this state of content languor, I have found myself wanting with a lot of new music…
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Album Review: Yard Act – You’re Gonna Need A Little Music (Island Records)
Nothing’s Changed, Nothing Matters, That’s Beautiful. A phrase that kept pounding away between my eyes as You’re Gonna Need A Little Music sprawled itself out before me. I found myself reviewing Yard Act in a far different personal landscape to…
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Album Review: Brian D’Souza – Music to Watch Seeds Grow By 007 (Sunflowers)
How strange, I thought, that a sunflower could generate a sort of space-age nostalgia for an extraterrestrial future I had never seen.
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Live Review: Lily Allen – West End Girl Tour (Dublin/London) (29th-30th June 2026)
The professionalism Allen brings to the performance means the chaotic nature of the album is ironed out into an organised mania