Category Archive: album

New Music: Check out CRISTALLIN

Somethingyousaid.com’s Kaya Strehler points you in the direction of some sounds from Switzerland: I previously wrote about the high level of music being created within the tidy little borders of Switzerland and brought your… Read More

Review: We All Want To, The Haze

The opening moments of The Haze set the pace nicely: “Eileen Afternoon” introduces the album with an irresistible riff, while the song slowly builds to its post-chorus release. It introduces listeners to the fuzz-driven… Read More

Review: Seth Sentry – Strange New Past

Australian hip-hop artist Seth Sentry is back with a different vibe for his new longplayer, Strange New Past. It’s a mind-boggle. There’s a creative mixture of the classic cheekiness Sentry encompasses, as well… Read More

Album review: Jamie xx – In Colour

In Colour, the surreal debut from Jamie xx, is simply incandescent to the ears. It is animalistic. Rhythmic. Perhaps a kaleidoscopic representation of modern British dance. But most importantly, it establishes Jamie Smith… Read More

Album Review: Max Gowan – Big People

Incoming sensation Max Gowan makes the most of his 18 years of experience on this Earth with his debut longplayer, Big People. His songs shine at the seams with an inexpressible youthfulness, and… Read More

Review: The Weather Station, Loyalty

Toronto-based artist Tamara Lindeman’s third longplayer has just landed. Melissa Barrass checks it out: ‘Loyalty’ kept putting me in and out of sleep. This is not a bad thing at all. It wasn’t from… Read More

Album Review: Surfer Blood – 1000 Palms

Florida’s Surfer Blood rode to our shores with debut Astro Coast in 2010, praised for their Weezer-meets-Morrissey indie-pop. Signed by a major label to release 2013’s Pythons, only for each party to dump… Read More

Album review: Nosaj Thing – Fated

The popularity of the electronically-produced low-fi music genre has given rise to experiments with samples and mixes. Fated is a showcase of the ability of low-fi to create emotion through its arrangement of… Read More

Album Review: Mikal Cronin – MCIII

Following Mikal Cronin’s breakthrough pop-powerhouse, MCII, comes MCIII, an album which he has described as “bigger” and, in both sound and ambition, he’s right. Featuring more horn arrangements and a fuller sound, as… Read More

Hermitude dance like no-one’s watching

Last Wednesday evening, Australia-based electronic duo Hermitude hosted an exclusive listening party for their new album, Dark Night Sweet Light. We sent Annastasia Robertson along to try out her dance moves: In a nod… Read More

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Quarters

Quarters, King Gizzard’s second album within the space of a year, is a marked departure from their previous release, the eclectic I’m In Your Mind Fuzz. For a start, the appropriately-named Quarters features only… Read More

New Music Review: Taffy, Darkle

Somethingyousaid.com’s Melissa Barrass checks out the new EP from Tokyo’s dreamy bubblegum-gazers: Two words: Japanese and Shoegaze. That was all it took for me to check out Taffy, a noise-rock reverb-riddled band from… Read More