Reviews
(ghost) - Departure
April 9 | Reviews
Latest from the n5MD roster fails to grab our Editor.
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
April 8 | Reviews
“edging his craft closer to the greats on which he grew with each chord progression.”
Low - The Invisible Way
April 5 | Reviews
“there is enormous power in elaborate restraint”
The Strokes - Comedown Machine
April 4 | Reviews
Let the comedown begin.
Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
April 3 | Reviews
defies you “not to wholly embrace the warts-and-all thrills of primal rock.”
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
March 28 | Reviews
Our Red On Black digests the latest from “road-weary” Americana exponent Phosphorescent
Suede - Bloodsports
March 27 | Reviews
The best Suede record since 1996
David Bowie - The Next Day
March 26 | Reviews
The greatest ever comeback?
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band - Liquid Love
March 25 | Reviews
No where near as good as “having Lux Interior covering the Shangri Las“ should be.
Good Weather For An Airstrike – Lights
March 20 | Reviews
Epic yet peaceful post-rock in the vein of Hammock, Sigur Ros etc
Purling Hiss - Water On Mars
March 19 | Reviews
Purling Hiss have gone for broke, trying to actually sell some records.
Feeding People - Island Universe
March 18 | Reviews
“riffing your way out of trouble is rarely the answer to any question.”
Mister Lies - Mowgli
March 15 | Reviews
“Zanca plays make-do-and-mend glitch against retro house, bottomed-out synth against chop-shop R&B.”
The Changes – American Master
March 14 | Reviews
More listeners please.
Blue Hawaii - Untogether
March 13 | Reviews
“oddly concentrated passages of sultry ambience that frequently sound like clouds making love.”
Mazes - Ores And Minerals
March 12 | Reviews
“seems hewn from a desert canyon”
Daughter - If You Leave
March 11 | Reviews
“themes of regret, loss and insecurity throughout “
The House Of Love - She Paints Words In Red
March 10 | Reviews
more Abbey Road than Revolver.
Flutes - Flutes
March 9 | Reviews
“aggression, anger, danger, despair”… must be Scottish.
Matthew E White - Big Inner
March 7 | Reviews
“harks back to the glory days of great American labels”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
March 6 | Reviews
Cave is now one of the great modern renaissance men.
Suuns - Images Du Futur
March 5 | Reviews
Contains “two of the finest tracks likely to be heard this year”.
Chelsea Light Moving - Chelsea Light Moving
March 4 | Reviews
A “tellingly relevant” LP from the new Thurston Moore vehicle.
Martin Rossiter - The Defenestration of St Martin
February 28 | Reviews
“The best record I have heard in a very, very, very long time.”
My Bloody Valentine. - mbv.
February 27 | Reviews
See what Mark Reed is doing here…
but is it any good?
Doldrums - Lesser Evil
February 25 | Reviews
“a collection of square pegs unwilling to conform to round pigeonholes if ever there was one.”
The Mary Onettes - Hit The Waves
February 24 | Reviews
“Lovers of (summery) 80s music may well be drawn under its spell, but I don’t think this album is going to set the world alight.”
Golden Grrrls - Golden Grrrls
February 20 | Reviews
“Roll on the summer.”
Foals - Holy Fire
February 19 | Reviews
“…album is so good that the predictably irrelevant Mercury Prize is bound to pass it over”
Iceage - You're Nothing
February 18 | Reviews
“2013 is shaping up to be a loud one.”



