Category: Reviews
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2024 has been a corker for albums. Getting to the business end of the countdown with numbers 10 to 6.
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Number 15: Idles – Tangk Unsurprisingly, when Joe Talbot describes this as a collection of love songs, don’t be fully expecting it all to be warm and fuzzy. It is, though, their most expansive set of songs yet pushing into…
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Number 20: Kenya Grace – The After Taste Another singing producer-DJ, ‘Strangers’ is the ubiquitous stand-out track, closing in on a billion streams on Spotify, but the rest of the album is equally worthy of attention. Mostly this is gentle drum…
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Thus Love, Bring Me The Horizon, Nia Archives, Kid Kapichi and KNEECAP.
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The 2023 ones that got away: Honourable mentions to two 2023 albums I didn’t pick up on at the time. I came across Lankum’s ‘False Lankum’ after it featured in a number of end of year critic picks. I stuck…
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On November 30, 2024, Idles performed alongside Lambrini Girls and Battles in a lively gig. Lambrini Girls showcased their punk feminism with energetic performances, while Battles offered complex math-rock. Idles delivered a two-hour set, exploring themes of connection and loss,…
