Review: Blur – The Magic Whip
Blur make a strong case for Britpop revival with their first release in twelve years.
Browsing: Albums
Review: Passion Pit – Kindred
Passion Pit’s third album, following 2012’s critically acclaimed Gossamer, is full of delightfully energetic music and thankfully less relentlessly bleak lyrics.
Review: Shawn Mendes – Handwritten
The latest artist to be created in the Disney mould.
Review: All Time Low – Future Hearts
Future Hearts is sure to be a hit with the Baltimore quartet’s current listeners, but it is not the game-changing album it could have been.
Review: East India Youth – Culture Of Volume
As a second album, it sadly does not achieve the experimental potential that East India Youth presented in Total Strife Forever, and its flow is hindered by the unusual length of his songs.
Review: Circa Waves – Young Chasers
Circa Waves’ hotly anticipated debut comes crashing in, and with irresistible festival-ready choruses it’s guitar pop at its finest. It’s nothing new, but who cares when you have a great time listening to it?
Review: Kintsugi – Death Cab for Cutie
Emotionally moving and heart-wrenchingly honest, this album cannot be missed by alternative rock fanatics.
Review: Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett creates excitement out of the mundane with her debut album.
Review: Say Lou Lou – Lucid Dreaming
Records editor Hannah reviews the duo’s debut album.
Review: Hudson Taylor – Singing for Strangers
After years of EP releases – and a performance at SUSU’s The Bridge – the…
Review: The Cribs – For All My Sisters
The Cribs’ sixth studio album is both brooding and melodic, covering an exciting spectrum of tone, pace and moo
Review: Laura Marling – Short Movie
Marling has produced an album glowing with her own patented brand of wistful, nostalgic honesty, while shaking things up just enough to stand on its own.
Rewind: Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
As Bob Dylan plugged in to rock’n’roll stardom, many of his fans switched off. 50 years on, Bringing It All Back Home is no less infamous and continues to provide influence.
Review: Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Drake burst back onto the scene with a surprise mixtape, and boy has he delivered.…