Album Reviews Archives - Page 44 of 343

Album Review: Qoa – SAUCO: The Argentinian sound artist’s ambient hymn to a living landscape.

LA based, Argentinian Qoa (aka. Nina Conti) is a digital sound artist and illustrator who focuses on tuning in and responding to the non-human world. That involves the composer’s serious…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: The Aerial Maps share the visceral beauty and graceful sounds of ‘Our Sunburn Dream’.

Sydney supergroup The Aerial Maps have just released their new album, ‘Our Sunburnt Dream’ and it is clearly business as usual for these purveyors of shimmering and eloquent antipodean sunshine. Produced by the legendary Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil)…

View Post

View Post

Album Reviews

EP Review: high jump – 001

Blending jangling, buoyant indie guitars with swirling electronics and pop melodies, high jump’s debut EP 001 showcases some fantastic writing and creative, wonderfully restrained musicianship. Opening with the reverb soaked…

View Post

View Post

Album Reviews

EP Review: Liza Unveils Her Most Ambitious Work Yet With New EP ‘The Alternate Ending’

Opening up like never before, Liza exudes confidence in its purest and most unfiltered form with her stunning new EP, ‘The Alternate Ending’. The Ethiopian-Canadian singer/songwriter brings a dynamic range…

View Post

View Post

Album Review : Forest Law –‘Zero’ : Bossa beats, international grooves and so much more on this globetrotting musician’s debut.

Sonic explorer, creative adventurer, soundscape navigator are all phrases you could apply to Alexander Burke a.k.a Forest Law. Romford born, now London based he’s taken a globetrotting route to the…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Voidgazer – Dance Of The Undesirables

Founded in late 2015 by mastermind Manny Watts, death prog merchants Voidgazer have been a band that have honed their craft for a while. Their debut EP ‘Years Of Exile’ was released the following year, and…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: L’Étrangleuse – Ambiance Argile : Rootsy influences and a post punk mindset make for a pulsating return from the Lyon-based outfit.

The fact that guitarist / n’goni player Maël Salètes and harpist Mélanie Virot have been releasing albums as L’Étrangleuse since 2012 is down to much more than endurance or stubborn…

View Post

View Post

Album Review : Don Glori – ‘Don’t Forget To Have Fun’ : Fresh, funky and inspired soul jazz from the revitalised and relocated multi-instrumentalist.

Now this is a bit different. An album of contemporary instrumental music shaped within the mundane pressures of the day to day, paying the rent, food on the table, making…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: TC & The Groove Family – ‘We Have Each Other’ : UK Nu-jazz collective forge ahead with a powerful, passionate EP.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from TC & The Groove Family but you can’t keep a good collective down. Led by drummer Tim Cook (TC) and based around…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Dani Scheffels – hi

Daniel Scheffels has established himself as a drummer, composer and producer in various formations and genres. As a drummer, he has played with K.I.Z., Tarek K.I.Z., Ralph Heidel, Simon Popp…

View Post

Pages