James Blake: Album Review
James Blake probably doesn’t need much introduction to many readers as one of the most highly anticipated artists of 2011 after finishing in second place in the BBC’s prestigious ‘Sound of 2011’. More...
Reso – Heavy Arms EP
The Terratag artwork which covers this record expresses perfectly the roaring robotic futurism for which Reso’s dubstep is the sonic counterpart. The hybrid of platform game bleep melodies and speaker busting More...
Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch) – Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do
Since Sean Paul faded out of vogue it’s fair to say that, compared with a career of over 30 years of almost constant presence, Jamaican Dancehall has lain dormant in mainstream music. It’s hard to pin More...
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
There’s a quote, quite probably apocryphal, that has been attributed to the poet Samuel Johnson which finds him discussing a manuscript and commenting that it was “both good and original; but the parts More...
Skepta – Microphone Champion
Skepta – Microphone Champion Released 1st June on Boy Better Know All grime (arguably all rap) music sits on an uneasy paradox by both lamenting and glorifying the pressures of blue collar black culture. More...
Yonlu – A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre
"To be smaller than a grain of salt in the sea/ is all I’ll ever be" Embittered and self-pitying the lyric may be, but also unlikely to remain true for much longer. In a few short months More...
Magnum, Into the valley of the Moon King Album Review
With the imminent release of the 15th studio album, Into the Valley of the Moon King, perennial rockers Magnum have once more showed how good they are at recording new and exciting material. Songwriter/Guitarist/ More...
Malcolm Middleton – Waxing Gibbous
“I miss the comfort in being sad” sung Kurt Cobain many a long year ago now, a lyric that always seems to spring to mind when listening to Malcolm Middleton. This is a man who throughout his career, More...
Mouthwash – True Stories
Maybe it’s the sweltering sunshine, the pretty girls that have been wandering around Liverpool or even just the fact that my first fun packed year at University has ended and I‘m now looking for More...
2009 so far…
So the sun’s come out to play, you’ve pulled out the shorts and vest combo, the barbecue’s burning and you’ve got an ice cold can in one hand, a burger in the other. But something’s More...