Sui Zhen – Two Seas album review
We’ve been besotted by Sui Zhen for a while now, with her tinkling voice and her twisty, lovely lyrics. Jess O’Callaghan gives her debut LP a listen: Upon listening to Sui Zhen’s debut… Read More
Category Archive: album
The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
Liana Gow-Killingbeck reviews the latest offering from The Cribs: I’d been waiting for quite a while to get my paws on some fresh material by the English trio (and brothers), The Cribs. I’m… Read More
Slugga Tee EP
From the Millennium Jazz stable comes Slugga Tee and his solo EP, Passages From The Puddle, Something You Said’s 25ThC gives his verdict: Slugga Tee built up his name with an abundance of features… Read More
Dirty Three – Toward The Low Sun
Neil Martin gives his opinion on the long-awaited record from Dirty Three: Toward The Low Sun is Dirty Three’s first album since 2005 and the band have reconvened after a busy few years… Read More
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
Sophie Metcalfe makes her reviewing debut, and does it really rather brilliantly: It’s strange to feel nostalgia from an album that you’re only greeting for the first time, but it struck head-on from… Read More
Howler – America Give Up
Andy James gives a listen to the debut album from the latest NME darlings, Howler: It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy for Howler – the Minneapolis five-piece had barely tuned their… Read More
Single Twin interview
Ex-Deloris frontman Marcus Teague, aka Single Twin, talks to Jess O’Callaghan about his album and his show at Melbourne’s The Toff: Six years is a long time to spend recording an album alone on GarageBand. Was it… Read More
Krate Krusaders
25ThC gets his hip-hop on to review Krate Krusaders Volume 2. Here are his thoughts: This is the second volume of featured artist releases from South West UK production duo Bad Habitz and 1… Read More
StereoStar Sixty-Nine – Ambulance Shotgun
Jonjon gives StereoStar Sixty-Nine‘s album a listen. He’s unlikely to do the same thing again: What do you think of when you think French music? I think of Phoenix, Air, Cassius and, if… Read More
Jonjon reviews Joker’s album, The Vision
Jonjon gave Joker’s new album a listen. Here’s what he thought: Joker’s The Vision is all over the place. What you get is a mishmash of styles and genres with a few pop-tinged… Read More
Twerps album review
While their previous releases were charmingly ramshackle lo-fi songs about subjects such as drunkenly throwing up on your friends, Twerps recorded their eponymous debut long-player in a bona fide studio with the help… Read More
Tom Waits – Bad As Me album review
It’s been seven years since Tom Waits unleashed on the world his brilliant, barmy work of “cubist funk”, Real Gone. So there was obviously a huge amount of anticipation about his new offering,… Read More