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NewDad - Madra (Album Review)
Photo: Zyanya Lorenzo
Irish shoegaze four piece NewDad initially announced their arrival way back in 2020, kicking off a run of dreamy singles that banked critical acclaim while lighting a long fuse for their debut album ‘Madra’.
Written by: Matthew McLister | Date: Friday, 02 February 2024
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Ty Segall - Three Bells (Album Review)
You might group Ty Segall with Osees and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as shape-shifting modern practitioners of psychedelic rock. Following them is fun because of each act’s gentle unpredictability — you never quite know what’s coming next and if you don't like it, something different will arrive soon anyway.
Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Thursday, 01 February 2024
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow (Album Review)
Photo: Brian Rankin
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes’ fifth album takes us on a sultry, dimly-lit journey into self-reflection, channelling sex, unconditional love, and spite into their most intimate and honest work to date.
Written by: Jack McGill | Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
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Courting - New Last Name (Album Review)
Photo: Charlie Barclay Harris
Courting’s second album is a wild ride. ‘New Last Name’ is like The 1975’s Matty Healy and The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas fronting landfill indie and pop-punk bands that, through a time travel twist, came up on Black Midi’s prog-jazz and Black Country, New Road’s art-rock.
Written by: Jack Press | Date: Tuesday, 30 January 2024
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The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend (Album Review)
Photo: Jorge Aguilar
Music might be more homogeneous than ever before thanks to streaming and the erosion of easily identifiable scenes, but there is still a certain romance tied to specific places and periods of time.
Written by: Craig Howieson | Date: Monday, 29 January 2024
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The Smile - Wall Of Eyes (Album Review)
Photo: Frank Lebon
Featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, alongside Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, The Smile made a mark for themselves with 2022’s ‘A Light for Attracting Attention’, combining elements of post-punk, jazz, Afrobeat and electronic music with weighty atmospherics that plugged a Radiohead-shaped hole for fans.
Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
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Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope (Album Review)
Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Little Rope’ was hammered into shape by the force of one particular event. Midway through its recording, guitarist Carrie Brownstein lost both her mother and stepfather in a car crash while they were on holiday in Italy.
Written by: Emma Wilkes | Date: Wednesday, 24 January 2024
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Green Day - Saviors (Album Review)
There’s something about Green Day and years ending in four. Thirty years ago, ‘Dookie’ sent the band stratospheric. In 2004, their near-flawless rock opera masterpiece ‘American Idiot’ set the seal on a theatrical reinvention. So, no pressure in 2024, then. Fortunately, ‘Saviors’ is the band’s best record since George W. Bush was festering in the White House.
Written by: Adam England | Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2024
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The Fauns - How Lost (Album Review)
Photo: Roberto Vivancos
The Fauns’ first album in 10 years sees the Bristolian shoegaze outfit deliver nine tracks of sprawling, breathy dream-pop. It’s a welcome return for a group who have established a loyal and dedicated following, demonstrating significant development from their 2013 record, ‘Lights’.
Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Monday, 22 January 2024
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Kali Uchis - Orquídeas (Album Review)
Photo: COUGHS
Kali Uchis keeps moving. The Colombian-American singer only recently finished touring her last album, ‘Red Moon In Venus’, but she’s already back with her second predominantly Spanish-language release, ‘Orquídeas’.
Written by: Jack Terry | Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
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The Vaccines - Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations (Album Review)
The Vaccines have reached a stage in their career where they can bend different themes to their will. Three years ago ‘Back In Love City’ was heavily inspired by dystopian blockbuster movies, but its excellent follow up ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ is dominated instead by a dramatic, tangible feelings of loss.
Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
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Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da (Album Review)
Photo: Marieke Macklon
Bill Ryder-Jones has come a long way from being recognised chiefly as The Coral’s lead guitarist. Since leaving the psych-rock band in 2008, he has fashioned a diverse, exciting solo career that, thanks to the patchy ‘Iechyd Da’, now runs to five albums.
Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2024
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Marika Hackman - Big Sigh (Album Review)
Photo: Steve Gullick
Marika Hackman’s ‘Big Sigh’ is just that: a therapeutic release of sadness, stress, and lust described by the indie-rock auteur as the hardest album she has ever had to make.
Written by: Katie Macbeth | Date: Monday, 15 January 2024
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Sprints - Letter to Self (Album Review)
Photo: JP Dougherty
Sprints have already amassed a solid live following since forming in 2019, but nothing can truly prepare you for their debut album ‘Letter to Self’. It’s a work that sounds like it was made by a more weathered band, but it retains such a sense of vitality and urgency it constantly strains at the seams.
Written by: Will Marshall | Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
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Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 (Album Review)
When Nicki Minaj came onto the scene she changed the game, particularly with her 2010 debut album ‘Pink Friday’. Since then she has solidified her standing, but that artistic catalyst remains untouched, making this sequel all the more appealing.
Written by: Jack Terry | Date: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
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Health - Rat Wars (Album Review)
Photo: Mynxii White
It’s cold, dark and wet outside, so it’s the ideal time to crank up some moody industrial rock to get the blood pumping. Health's ‘Rat Wars’ is the perfect companion.
Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
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Tate McRae - Think Later (Album Review)
Tate McRae isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. There’s nothing you haven’t heard before on ‘Think Later’, from its nods to ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’-era The Weeknd and the darkly-lit vulnerability of Billie Eilish, or its embrace of PVRIS-style electro rock, but she does most of it really, really well.
Written by: Jack Press | Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
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Spector - Here Come the Early Nights (Album Review)
On ‘Here Come The Early Nights’ Spector pull off a difficult trick — they stay true to who they are while moving on, displaying fresh perspective from within the same fizzing indie songs that made them big fish in the UK indie scene of the early 2010s, alongside bands such as Peace, JAWS and Swim Deep.
Written by: Katie Macbeth | Date: Thursday, 07 December 2023
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Guided By Voices - Nowhere To Go But Up (Album Review)
Photo: Trevor Naud
There is a decidedly festive thrust to The Race Is On, The King Is Dead, the opener on Guided By Voices’ third, and one can only assume final, full length release of 2023. Amid tolling bells and swaggering guitars, frontman Robert Pollard is in celebratory form as he ushers in another set of songs that are almost impossible to fathom.
Written by: Craig Howieson | Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
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