Category: New Releases
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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.
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Album Review: Olivia Rodrigo – You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (Geffen)
Olivia Rodrigo’s third album, “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love”, trades the Taylor Swift comparisons for New Wave guitars, a Robert Smith duet, and the most grown-up heartbreak of her career.
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Album Review: Inferno – Boards of Canada (Warp Records)
Just shy of thirty years after their explosive debut album’s release, Boards of Canada are back, and their new album Inferno proves to the world that age is just a number. Inferno moves from funny to innovative to dancy and back again, with the fluidity of a fish in water. It evokes everything from Badalamenti…
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Album Review: Fast Money Music – Self Titled (Sick Records)
“It’s not revolutionary, but it is the ordinary done exceptionally well – and that, in itself, is worthy of praise.”
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Album Review: My New Band Believe – Self Titled (Rough Trade)
The record doesn’t just justify the name – it makes it feel almost modest. Like the man quietly built a cathedral and then shrugged and called it “My New Shed.”