Category Archive: album

Album review: Speedy Ortiz, Foil Deer

Adrian Pedić reviews the latest longplayer from the Massachusetts-based four-piece: Speedy Ortiz’ third album, Foil Deer, is to grunge what Tame Impala are to psychedelia. That is, taking inspiration from a well-known and well-worn… Read More

Album review: Howling, Sacred Ground

Howling’s latest longplayer, Sacred Ground, effortlessly plays as if mimicking clockwork and patterns of time, containing 12 tracks, reflecting the hours on a clock and the number of months in a year. Layered with… Read More

EP Review: Cheatahs, 紫 (Murasaki)

Chloe Mayne checks out the latest EP from cross-continental four-piece, Cheatahs: It’s kind of exhilarating when a small jewel like this one washes up on my shore. At a petite four tracks and… Read More

Album Review: Say Lou Lou, Lucid Dreaming

Somethingyousaid.com’s Kaya Strehler appropriately gets a little assistance from her family when reviewing the debut longplayer from Say Lou Lou: Elektra and Miranda Kilbey, aka Say Lou Lou, got their name from the ironic twist… Read More

Album review: Gallows, Desolation Sounds

England-based hardcore/punk band Gallows have just released their new album, Desolation Sounds. It’s the fourth album from UK boys and the first that doesn’t feature Steph Carter, who left in 2013. Listening to it… Read More

Sonic Jesus – Neither Virtue Nor Anger

Italy’s psychedelic swampers are back with a dark and brooding longplayer. Chloe Mayne checks it out for somethingyousaid.com: Sonic Jesus are one of the secret gems buried in the shore of the incoming… Read More

Album Review: Joey Fourr, TO THE FLOORR

Chloe Mayne checks out the debut longplayer from London-based odd-pop darlings Joey Fourr: Joey Fourr come across as one of those hidden gem-bands that pass evening after evening holed up in small and musty… Read More

Review: Mini Mansions, The Great Pretenders

Chloe Keung considers the sophomore longplayer from the Los Angeles based three-piece: Mini Mansions is strange pop. They are the alternative history of The Beatles with modern technology: ‘British Beat’ music of the… Read More

Album review: Alison Wonderland – Run

Annastasia Robertson checks out the debut longplayer from Sydney-based Alison Wonderland: Let me set a scene for you: it’s Halloween, I’m at a university party, I don’t really have a clue as to what’s… Read More

Music Review: Gang of Youths – The Positions

Sydney’s Gang of Youth’s debut LP, The Positions, probably isn’t what you’d expect of the group. The album chronicles frontman David Le’aupepe’s relationship with a woman who had a terminal illness, and his thoughts… Read More

Review: East India Youth, Culture Of Volume

Bobby Townsend considers the sophomore LP from London-based East India Youth: When William Doyle, better known as East India Youth, dropped his solo debut, Total Strife Forever, in January 2014, it was deservedly nominated… Read More

Album review: Apostille, Powerless

Chloe Mayne checks out the new LP from Glasgow’s DIY electro magician, which hits the shelves later this month. Here’s the lowdown on it: Apostille is the solo stepping-out of musician and DIY protagonist Michael Kasparis,… Read More