Tag Archive: lp

Tycho, Awake – Album review

I first uncovered Tycho while searching the net for inspiration as a graphic design student. The ambient shimmering electronic tones produced by Scott Hansen surrounded my university days. I was enthralled with his… Read More →

New Electric Ride, Balloon Age – Review

If the Mad Hatter had a little gramophone perched on the end of his tea-party table, the sounds emanating from it would have been something like the debut longplayer from Sunderland/London-based quartet New Electric… Read More →

Grayson Gilmour, Infinite Life! – Review

Grayson Gilmour comes from the exciting and densely-bubbling musical pot that is New Zealand’s quirky capital, Wellington. It’s been four years since we last heard from Gilmour, who, after the release of No… Read More →

Mac Demarco, Salad Days – album review

Mac deMarco’s records are like those brightly-coloured balls that bounce across the crowd at summer festivals, hands reaching up ecstatically toward them as they soar by, reflecting the sunshine like softly curved mirrors.… Read More →

The Pretty Reckless, Going To Hell – review

Taylor Momsen and friends return with their eagerly-anticipated sophomore longplayer, Going To Hell:  The Pretty Reckless – formerly just The Reckless – are probably best known for the 2010 hit You Make Me Wanna… Read More →

Luca Brasi, By a Thread – album review

With the release of their new album, By A Thread, Luca Brasi sound like The Hard Ons’ optimistic nephew. Melodic punk bands like these guys have been a-dime-a-dozen for the last decade-or-so, with only… Read More →

Ásgeir, Into The Silence – album review

When I heard about this mind-blowing new talent from Iceland I was the biggest of naysayers. Being a massive Sigur Ros fan and a moderate Bjork worshiper it irritated me greatly that Ásgeir’s… Read More →

Lyla Foy album review, Mirrors In The Sky

You may have heard of London songwriter/producer Lyla Foy under the WALL moniker. Well, now she’s unleashed her debut longplayer and it’s well worth a listen, as Joe Haddow explains:  If the haunting style… Read More →

The War on Drugs, Lost In The Dream

The War on Drugs, the Philadelphia-based project of the talented Adam Granduciel, have just released their third full-length album. Released via the wonderfully savvy folk at Inertia Records, it’s called Lost in the… Read More →

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Oddments

Holy smokeballs, King Gizzard have gone and done it again. Mere months off the back of their last record (Float Along/Fill Your Lungs), the self-described theremin wielding psychopaths have knocked us off our… Read More →

MØ, No Mythologies To Follow – Album review

Harriet Cheney reviews the debut longplayer from Danish singer/songwriter Karen Marie Ørsted, better known as MØ: With Diplo lending a hand to one of her tracks, Hype Machine announcing her the week’s #1 Most Blogged-About-Artist… Read More →

Run the Jewels album review

Jess Matthews checks out the highly-anticipated debut longplayer from El-P and Killer Mike: Run the Jewels’ eponymous album was heralded as the brazen anti-hero of the Hip Hop world. I’m not sure if a stream… Read More →