Album Reviews

Kim Gordon – Girl In A Band

“What’s it like to be a girl in a band?” That question, repeatedly put to Kim Gordon by male journalists during her time in...

A Place To Bury Strangers – ‘Transfixiation’

Over the course of three albums, APTBS have tried varying levels of bludgeoning sound, but frontman Oliver Ackermann has never seemed content with the...

Bob Dylan – ‘Shadows In The Night’

On the release of his 1970 covers album 'Self Portrait', Bob Dylan was crucified. "What is this shit?" sneered Rolling Stone. Now, though, he's...

Father John Misty – ‘I Love You, Honeybear’

Josh Tillman might look like a hipster Jesus, but he’s more very naughty boy than Messiah. Resurrecting himself, so to speak, as Father John...

Charli XCX – ‘Sucker’

This year’s first great pop record bowls in with a rapturous celebration of the genre's rebellious, trashy potential (and a bottle of champagne and...

Carl Barat & The Jackals

Some rock’n’roll dogs were born to hunt in packs. Lifelong devotees to the last gang in town, they’re tied to their brothers with a...

The Districts – ‘A Flourish And A Spoil’

The worry with still-teenage bands who’ve crafted an awesome live reputation is they get too hyped too soon and spook like dogs hearing fireworks....

The Charlatans – ‘Modern Nature’

For 27 years, tragedy has dogged and driven The Charlatans. When keyboardist Rob Collins died in a car crash in 1996, they created 1997’s...

Peace – ‘Happy People’

Increasingly, there are two kinds of emerging British rock ’n’ roll band: those, like Sleaford Mods, Slaves or Fat White Family, who burn with...

Aphex Twin – ‘Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2’

Among plentiful praise, one of the main criticisms hurled at Aphex Twin’s ‘Syro’ when it arrived last year was that it sounded a bit...