Category: REVIEWS

  • REVIEW / SLIPPERS / SLIPPERS 08

    REVIEW / SLIPPERS / SLIPPERS 08

    Power Pop in all its forms is back, spearheaded largely by The Lemon Twigs and a buncha snotty Aussie groups – but what of Power…

  • REVIEW / BOARDS OF CANADA / INFERNO

    REVIEW / BOARDS OF CANADA / INFERNO

    Mass surveillance, new age spiritualism grifters, populist politics, a thoroughly unsensible media landscape, quack medicine pushed by sexists, conspiracy, Q Anon, artificial intelligence, the threat…

  • REVIEW / DRAKE’S THREE ALBUMS THAT DROPPED ON THE SAME DAY

    REVIEW / DRAKE’S THREE ALBUMS THAT DROPPED ON THE SAME DAY

    Are you kidding? That’s too much music for one sitting. That’s too many songs at the same time to wade through. That’s like, a million…

  • REVIEW / ALDOUS HARDING / TRAIN ON THE ISLAND

    REVIEW / ALDOUS HARDING / TRAIN ON THE ISLAND

    There’s no-one quite like Aldous Harding. From the lyrical content, the jarring but hot-as-hell dancing, the switching of voices, the costumes, the arresting videos… and…

  • REVIEW / NU GENEA / PEOPLE OF THE MOON

    REVIEW / NU GENEA / PEOPLE OF THE MOON

    When times are hard, it’s difficult to stop yourself from daydreaming of some blissful, endless summer where shirts are linen, your toes wriggling in the…

  • REVIEW / KACEY MUSGRAVES / MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

    REVIEW / KACEY MUSGRAVES / MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

    In ‘Everybody Wants to Be a Cowboy’, Kacey Musgraves sings “I bet most of these boots are probably never seeing any dirt and the ground…

  • REVIEW / NOAH KAHAN / THE GREAT DIVIDE

    REVIEW / NOAH KAHAN / THE GREAT DIVIDE

    It always feels like it’s Autumn in Noah Kahan’s heart, which is no bad thing if you’re making the kind of music that sensitive souls…

  • REVIEW / EGO ELLA MAY / GOOD INTENTIONS

    REVIEW / EGO ELLA MAY / GOOD INTENTIONS

    With Elmiene’s album, Ego Ella May’s new album ‘Good Intentions’ is a gorgeous one-two punch of jazzy R&B goodness. For fans of Gilles Peterson’s radio…

  • REVIEW / ELMIENE / SOUNDS FOR SOMEONE

    REVIEW / ELMIENE / SOUNDS FOR SOMEONE

    2026 is shaping up to be a hot year for R&B lovers, with a load of albums and single drops heating things up. One of…

  • REVIEW / YE / BULLY

    REVIEW / YE / BULLY

    And so we begin with (Kan)Ye’s mea culpa lap, after too many years of saying and doing some of the most sincerely awful shit any…