Reviews

Review: These New Puritans – Field of Reeds

August 21st, 2013

One priceless function of great art is its ability to transpose a dreamlike state into the 'real' world. In this respect - and indeed others - Field of Reeds is great art.

Review: Earl Sweatshirt – Doris

August 20th, 2013

After a debut album mostly concerned with scatology and rape, Doris is most definitely a progression and a maturation.

Review: Zola Jesus & JG Thirwell feat. Mivos Quartet – Versions

August 19th, 2013

The tension between ZJ's 'nightclub heartbreak' and the soaring strings proves a mismatch, but there's a rich musicality to savour.

Review: Men Among Animals – Buried Handsome

August 19th, 2013

Experimental pop music is alive and well and has family in Denmark.

Review: Drenge – Drenge

August 16th, 2013

Sludgy, crunchy lo-fi so much smarter than your average modern garage rock that it feels wrong to refer to Drenge as a 'hype' band.

Review: Washed Out – Paracosm

August 16th, 2013

The nostalgia implied by its sepia-tinted synth work might be more evocative had it not become so ubiquitous over the last few years.

Review: Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time

August 16th, 2013

A cross between Loveless and SMiLE: does that sound good to you? Because it sounds bloody fantastic to us.

Review: Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now

August 12th, 2013

A spread of autumnal colours that overwhelms in all the right ways - hug it, squeeze it and call it George if you must.

LPs round-up: Conundrum In Deed, Hero & Leander, Cairo Gang, Roedelius Schneider

August 12th, 2013

Featuring reviews of albums from Conundrum In Deed, Hero & Leander, White Hills, Roedelius Schneider and Data.

Review: O Emperor – Vitreous

August 10th, 2013

A psych-pop odyssey, a masterpiece of self-recording, one of the best things you'll hear all year: Vitreous is all this and possibly more.

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