Album Reviews

Alice In Chains – ‘The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here’

In metal, frontmen have long been replaceable entities. Even so, following the death of Layne Staley in 2002, few would have predicted that Alice In...

The Orwells – ‘Other Voices EP’

If garage-punks were into prize-giving rather than flinging themselves around bars, Chicago teens The Orwells would win gold for ‘Other Voices’. One of the...

Tom Odell – ‘Long Way Down’

Imagine, if you can, a more annoying 2013 sound than the trout-tongued singer from Bastille going “Ayd if yew clews yer ayezzz” before EVERY SINGLE...

oOoOO – ‘Without Your Love’

On ‘Without Your Love’, San Francisco’s Chris Dexter finds himself in an awkward position. When the earliest oOoOO productions oozed onto the internet in...

Ghost Outfit – ‘I Want You To Destroy Me’

These Manchester shoegaze punks are “self-confessed maximalists”, which sounds more like a boast than a confession, but nevertheless zooms in on a noteworthy element...

Bosnian Rainbows – ‘Bosnian Rainbows’

If you wondered what your At The Drive-In reunion tickets were buying, well here’s an answer. Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and the rest were...

Smith Westerns – ‘Soft Will’

On 2011’s ‘Dye It Blonde’, Smith Westerns upped the production values of the lo-fi scuzz on their 2009 self-titled debut and gave it a...

Deap Vally – ‘Sistrionix’

Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off of.” These are the wise words of Angela...

Dinosaur Pile-Up – ‘Nature Nurture’

It’s not that Leeds band Dinosaur Pile-Up have changed that much since they formed in 2007, they’ve just grown up. This happens to everyone,...

Tripwires – ‘Spacehopper’

Tripwires, from Reading, Berkshire, follow in the early ’90s jangling shoegaze footsteps of former pioneering bands from the Thames Valley area – Chapterhouse, Slowdive,...
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