Album Reviews
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued
Drag City dig deep, strike fortune: Bill Stone’s album rings down the decades and it’s really sweet. Sure it’s a little rough ’round the edges, but that’s absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation. Real and delightful
ALBUM REVIEW: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘New Fragility’: raging at the state we’re in
On New Fragility, Alec Ounsworth looks at the state we’re in and calls it like he sees it; rage and horror is articulated with poetry and precision and more often than not with you being able to sing along with abandon
REVIEW: Marsha Fisher – New Ruins
There is a genuine, haunting beauty that comes with Minnesota-based sound artist Marsha Fisher. With the release of New Ruins also comes a compelling take on repurposing and interpolating older music. Sampling isn’t anything new in music – it’s a tenet for producers both within the genres of hip-hop all the way through to low-key …
EP Review: New Zealand’s Bitter Defeat launch a veritable rocket with their brilliant EP ‘Minor Victory’
Blasting out with ‘Light That Shines’ is a an appropriate taster of what’s to come from Bitter Defeat‘s new EP ‘Minor Victory’. Lauded by me last year, this is a hyperactive and anarchic track of joy: a new wave pogo-inducing rocket-fueled delight. And what I love about this band is its lack of pretension, a …
EP Review: Nick Ward’s deeply personal treatise on identity in ‘Everything I Wish I Told You’ is beautiful, empowering pop.
Sydney’s Nick Ward is only nineteen but the maturity and stature of his new EP, ‘Everything I Wish I Told You’ is phenomenal. In instrumentation, vocals and lyrical themes, this is a fully formed piece of indie pop that sparkles with melody and rhythms. The themes are very personal and born from the strictures of …
Album Review: Feskarn – Ravens Way
Feskarn is a one man Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal band hailing from Uppsala, Sweden. The one man being Niklas Larsson along with new studio gear, Ibanez guitar, soundcard and upgraded software, he has created the album ‘Raven’s Way’ full of viking elements with throat singing, choirs, shaman drums and mouth harps. You can hear the influence from …
Album Review: Josh Thorpe’s album ‘Love & Weather’ is a blistering delight.
We proudly premiered the video of ‘Down to the Ground’ last week by Glaswegian-based artist and musician Josh Thorpe, and the excitement caused by this single is only exceeded by listening to the entire album from whence it came – ‘Love & Weather’. There is an imperious grandiosity about this album – studied and eloquent …
EP REVIEW: Lizzie Reid – ‘Cubicle’: cathartic beauty from young Glaswegian
Lizzie Reid’s Cubicle is a properly excellent debut from the young Glaswegian, with moments of real cathartic beauty
EP: Jamie Fielding – Mind 3
Out now is the new EP from Clacton-based DJ and Producer Jamie Fielding, out on Jamie Jones’ Hottrax label, featuring three welcome doses of late night house music. It’s almost ironic that Fielding was inspired to take up DJ-ing / producing by a set from Jones back in 2018. The title track opens proceedings with …
EP Review: Hope D’s ‘Cash Only’ EP is a gorgeously textured, multi-layered and expressive pop delight.
Brisbane is battling for the title of the most creative indie pop centre of the southern hemisphere at the moment, epitomised by a number of acts like Hatchie and Mallrat featuring highly talented female artists that display a prodigious talent for songwriting. Brisbane’s Hope D is another case for the prosecution. Her new EP ‘Cash …