Category: New Releases
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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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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 on a golden goose; one that pointed a way for a new juncture in his…
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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.
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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…