Category Archive: review

Mulatu Astatke at The Komedia in Brighton

An Ethiopian legend of jazz was in Brighton last week. 25ThC was so inspired that he left the gig wanting to learn the trumpet: You may not have heard of the Ethiopian Jazz… Read More

Clytem Scanning – Armada album review

We make no secret of how much we love Clytem Scanning. Every now and again a new video from her arrives in our inbox and we get excited at the prospect of taking… Read More

Sufjan Stevens at Brighton’s Great Escape

Undoubtedly one of the main draws of the Great Escape this year, Sufjan Stevens played to a long-since sold out Dome on the final night of the festival. Andy James went along for… Read More

Scream 4 offers a disappointing climax

As a fan of horror movies, I absolutely loved Scream in 1996 and enjoyed Scream 2 a year later. Admittedly, I didn’t see Scream 3, owing to my firm belief that sequels get… Read More

Cloud Control own Thursday’s Great Escape

Brighton on a sunny Thursday played host to The Great Escape, where loads of bands descend on the city for three days of utter madness. Early on, PVT sure sounded great from where… Read More

Yuck’s debut is fresh and exciting

Hailing from London and including Daniel Blumberg and Max Bloom, both of whom used to be in Cajun Dance Party, Yuck land on the indie scene sounding at times like they hail from… Read More

The Strokes’ Angles offers disappointment

I had a disagreement with some fellow music critics once about the impact The Strokes had on the indie music world. It was largely over my claim that their arrival changed everything. It’s… Read More

Sleigh Bells live

Any relatively hard-working music reviewer sees a whole lotta live acts in the course of a year. Some are good, some are not. Almost always, their sets are toooooooo lonnnnng (I’m looking at… Read More

The Bravery at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen

  You have to feel a bit sorry for The Bravery. Massively hyped in late 2004 and 2005, they were one of the pioneers of the sound that has come to currently dominate… Read More

A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn

Before researching Kyle Bobby Dunn’s A Young Person’s Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, I never knew there was a genre known as “drone”. It’s not exactly a term that fills me with confidence.… Read More

Never Let Me Go asks some moral questions

Nicole Dora casts her eyes over Never let Me Go, the new movie from Mark Romanek: I have never been a fan of book-to-film adaptations and, while I haven’t read Never Let Me… Read More

Uffie – Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans

If Pop The Glock, the autotuned opener of Uffie’s Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans, sounds dated, that’s because it was first realeased over four years ago. God knows why it has taken so… Read More