Album Reviews

Album review: Lissy Trullie – ‘Self-Taught Learner’

For all the great music that continues to come out of the Big Apple, there also remains a never-ending supply of chancers with good...

Album review: Let’s Wrestle – ‘In The Court Of The Wrestling Let’s’

Let’s Wrestle have been slouching around north London venues for a while now, Findus crispy-crumbs in their hair and surrealist bile in their bellies....

Album review: Laroca – ‘Valley Of The Bears’

Knob-twiddling new ageists Rob Pollard and Olly Wakeford first announced themselves in 2006 with ‘Friends In Far Away Places’, a record evoking adjectives like...

Album Review: La Roux – ‘La Roux’

Annie Lennox’s stern, android persona. The asexually metallic voice of Neil Tennant. Marc Almond and Andy Bell’s flamboyant vocals. During the ’80s, the labour-saving...

Album review: Here We Go Magic – ‘Here We Go Magic’

The advance buzz about Luke Temple’s first record as Here We Go Magic suggested the Brooklyn-based songwriter could be about to do a Grizzly...

Album review: Goes Cube – ‘Another Day Has Passed’

Loud music is at its best when it makes you feel like you might lose control and repeatedly bash your skull into the nearest...

Album review: Various artists – ‘This Is UK Funky House Vol 1’

Reinvoking the chinking Cava, cream crocodile-skin loafers and beaming grins of 1999 UK garage’s panto-bling, ‘UK funky’ has reignited grime’s Ayia Napa-bound contingent to...

Album Review: Flipper – ‘Album: Generic Flipper’

“Wait… everybody start at the same time. Ready?” A telling intro from a band who made a punishing virtue out of being sloppy, offbeat...

Album Review: Bashy – ‘Catch Me If You Can’

As one of the few grime artists not called Dizzee who still nurtures mainstream hopes, Bashy has rejected the genre’s toothy rhythms, implementing gloopy...

Album Review: Anathallo – ‘Canopy Glow’

For a band with seven permanent members and a cast of cameo players that’s almost as long, Anathallo sure are quiet. Of course, one...