Category: Album Reviews
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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 their sophomore album, Nobody’s Coming to Save You. The first thing I was keen to…
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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 sure will bring the things you want, only connected back to those you know and…
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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 Tokyo Tea Room, only exacerbated this feeling. Opening up the album was Hypnotized, a song…
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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 shows this development from a sonic point of view. Still sporting heavy guitar riffs and…
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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 influence emerges in her open chord progressions and occasional existentialism, alongside John Prine’s and Gillian…
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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. Winder-Lind’s new album delivers what This is Our Life promised. Like the single, the album…
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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 I have listened to, my finger slowly slipping further off the pulse. That isn’t to…
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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 their sophomore album. Back then I was walking in the early spring sun back near…
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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.