Category: Album Review
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Will we be dancing to Joy Division or fleeing to Tokyo? Album number 6 from The Wombats is here. The Wombat’s first album ‘A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation very much leapt into the indie zeitgist in 2007 with…
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It is like all the best bits of 80s and 90s guitar music rolled up into one album. Two former members of Welsh band Joanna Gruesome formed Ex-Vöid in 2018 and a debut album followed in 2022. ‘Bigger than Before’…
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Brighton based post-punks return with their third album. This album races out of the gates strongly with two top quality tracks. ‘Crispy Skin’ builds cleverly out of twinkly synths, piano, vocals and bass before halfway through switching gears and bringing…
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An extraordinary debut from a rising young talent and unique voice. People following their own creative passions can be a wonderful thing. There will always be the trend chasers and the bandwagon hoppers and some of them can be quite…
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The Wantage based Indie survivors are back with a nuanced and slightly more experimental effort. Back in the early noughties you couldn’t have had an interest in the local Oxford indie scene and not come across the Young Knives. They…
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Is this the best album released in January? If only we lived in a world where we could discuss it for the music alone. Let’s just get it out of the way. This is a really great album. It is…
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One of the leading lights in UK rap finally drops his debut album, is he ahead of the competition? Rap and hip-hop loving UK kids have no idea how good they have it right now. I remember the dark days…
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The Canadian Indie outfit led by Tamara Lindeman are back with their seventh album and a mini-UK tour in March. Their fifth album, ‘Ignorance’ met with near universal acclaim and a place deep within the top album listings of 2021…
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It has felt a longtime coming but Brighton’s punk-rock heroes finally release their debut album. A year and a half on from the ‘You’re Welcome’ EP that announced them as a punk outfit of righteous political fury (not to mention…
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‘Preacher’s Daughter’ was a stunning release in 2022. It left Ethel Cain placed as an artist you could imagine moving in a variety of different ways with equal brilliance. The possibility of mainstream pop success, rock or indie… maybe an…
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