Album Review: Suede — Night Thoughts
Suede* is the band that many forget actually kickstarted (or possibly hotwired) Britpop. Night Thoughts is Suede’s seventh album and only the second since their welcomed reunion in 2010, a…
Share
Album Reviews
3380 posts
Say Psych: Album Review, Temporary Infinity by Haikai No Ku
If you were to do a word cloud of my album reviews so far this year the words ‘dark’, ‘dense’, ‘intense’ and ‘dystopian’ would surely be writ large across it.…
Share
Say Psych: Album Review, Monographic by The Oscillation
A favourite album of mine is one that you may not have heard of, Stranglers bassist JJ Burnel’s 1979 solo project ‘Euroman Cometh’. I originally bought it way back when because…
Share
Album Review: Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger
Surprise, a new Ty Segall album. I bet you weren’t expecting that, were you? The fuzz rock wunderkind has kept a pretty steady habit of putting out two or three…
Share
Album Review: Tuff Love – Resort
If you’ve already been seduced by Tuff Love’s fuzzy indie pop, you probably own the three EPs they released between 2012 and the end of 2015. If so, you can…
Share
Album Review: Savages – Adore Life
It is rare that I will just sit down and write an album review after my first listen. I like to give my brain some breathing space, to come to…
Share
Album Review: Eleanor Friedberger – New View
“Oh Eleanor, it’s going to be alright. Things may seem down right now, but I promise things will get better. People come and people go out of our lives, but…
Share
Album Review: The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
The Besnard Lakes sound like a cloudburst in the middle of an emotional breakdown. Absolute beauty in the midst of some psychic turmoil. Towering melody and cavernous harmonies ride on…
Share
Album Review: King Charles – Gamble For A Rose
Things are changing for singer-songwriter Charles Costa AKA King Charles. His 2012 album ‘LoveBlood’ was a bouncy and quirky collection of pop gems. But January sees the release of its…
Share
Say Psych: Album Review, Paradise by Pop. 1280
The planet is in a pretty fucked up state and we’ve only got ourselves to blame. That may seem obvious to some, but given that Pop. 1280’s position is that…
Share