Album Review: Dream Wife // So When You Gonna…
Possibly the most successful art school project ever created, Dream Wife release their second studio album, So When You Gonna..., this Friday, 3 July. Having previously made a name for themselves prod…
Albums
Album Review: Bdrmm // Bedroom
Hull 5-piece Bdrmm appeared from relative obscurity early in 2020, winning over crowds with an unstylised, underdog persona and a truly ethereal live show. Bdrmm’s genesis came in the form of a dem…
Album review: Pottery // Welcome To Bobby’s Motel
Welcome To Bobby’s Motel is the debut album from Montreal art-rockers Pottery, out on Partisan Records. A natural first question would be who is Bobby and where is his motel? And this really sets the …
Album Review: HAIM // Women In Music Pt. III
The best things come in three: the HAIM sisters, their third studio album, and its trio of bonus tracks. The Southern-California-based trio oozes glossy surf-rock sunshine and has bottled up the feel…
Album Review: Jockstrap // Wicked City EP
That quote about understanding the rules well in order to break them has been attributed to an infinite list of visionaries since Pablo Picasso first proposed the notion. Rarely, though, does an artis…
Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers // Punisher
If the state of the world hasn’t already alerted you that it’s officially going to be a Sad Girl Summer, Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher will have you staring at the ceiling, questioning the state of the wo…
Album Review: Orlando Weeks // A Quickening
It often seems that the most affecting songwriting is that which documents the small yet magnificent details of life. Rather than grand, sweeping statements, it is the minutiae that we relate to the m…
Album Review: Jack Garratt // Love, Death & Dancing
If you thought you'd be forgiven for forgetting about Jack Garratt, you'd be very sorely mistaken. Back in 2015, the multi-instrumental, experimental prodigy from Buckinghamshire took the music scene …
Album Review: Run The Jewels // RTJ4
These are turbulent times. But I needn’t tell you that. Anyone with a phone, anyone who turns on the news, anyone who even talks to somebody else knows it to be true. Protests have erupted across the …
Album Review: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever // Sideways To New Italy
After returning from long globetrotting stretches touring critically acclaimed debut album ‘Hope Downs’ and regarded antecedent EPs, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever felt dislocated and disoriented, se…
