Album Reviews
ALBUM REVIEW: Django Django “Marble Skies”
Django Django return with their third studio album “Marble Skies” which sees the Scottish-formed, London-based art/maths rock quartet honing their particular brand of quirky guitar-driven synth pop to reach new levels of success. Album opener and title track “Marble Skies” begins as a minimal Kraftwerk-esque piece of uptempo electronica and soon brings in the band’s …
Album Review: The Go! Team – Semicircle
We music writers are a strange bunch. Whenever we get new music to listen to and review, we always try to fit it into a certain box, letting the world know what genre the listener can expect from an album. So it’s bands like The Go! Team that really throw us into disarray. Why? Because …
Album Review: First Aid Kit “Ruins”
It’s amazing to find Swedish country folk duo First Aid Kit already releasing their fourth album and between releasing fascinatingly authentic Americana-drenched albums, they’ve conquered the world, cracking the US market and even appearing as regular guests on Graham Norton’s A-list chat show. “Ruins” finds them in a reflective mood, opening with moody “Behind Blue …
Say Psych: Album Review: Hookworms – Microshift
Rating: 7/10 Hookworms are a band that need no introduction really and yet with a noticeable three-year absence from releasing new material some would be forgiven for forgetting about them. The release of the Leeds bands new LP marks a shift in their sound, dynamic song-writing and production whilst still bearing all the ferocious energy …
Not Forgotten: A-Ha – Scoundrel Days
In 1985, Norse rock gods A-ha ruled the airwaves. Powered by remarkable cheekbones, teen acolytes and a cutting-edge video, they were on the Smash Hits cover most weeks. We worshipped them fervently, but we knew that like Odin, even if they carried on, their fame would inevitably fade. Nobody troubled to tell A-ha this. Secretly …
Album Review: Jim Ghedi – A Hymn for an Ancient Land
A Hymn for Ancient Land is not an album I could listen to while doing anything else. It would be like texting while taking a walk in a breath-taking landscape – missing the beauty. Inspired by his home in Moss Valley, the Peaks and the Dales, this is exactly what Jim purports he is doing …
ALBUM REVIEW: Dead! – The Golden Age of Not Even Trying
Label: Infectious, BMG Released: 26 January 2018 After such a long wait for this album, I really thought I would be deceased before hearing The Golden Age of Not Even Trying. But, nevertheless, this record is certainly one that has been worth waiting for. Dead! are representing the new era of genre-crossing alternative music. There’s a …
The Lovely Eggs – This Is Eggland
Eggland then. A place where the Lovely Eggs have got a producer in (Dave Fridmann no less) and gone full Hawkwind. Which means that my friend Julie, though she doesn’t know it yet, has a new favourite album. Cos that’s really how a love of the Eggs should be passed on – rocking up to …
Album : Starcrawler – Starcrawler
Exploding out of Rough Trade Records is the debut album from Starcrawler. A four piece from LA formed when vocalist Arrow De Wilde met guitarist Henri Cash in 2015 (and then met up with rhythm section Austin Smith and Tim Franco). Not content with releasing the catchiest song ever written about Ants, the band have …
Album Review: Leyya – Sauna
Sophie Lindinger and Marco Kleebauer are Leyya, an electronic pop duo from Vienna, Austria. Today sees the release of their new album “Sauna”, which was preceded by a single, the evocative “Heat”. “Heat” features Lindinger’s gorgeous almost languid vocals over a sparse indie electronic beat and a rousing, charged chorus. Electro melancholic pop that evokes …