Reviews

Review: Pet Shop Boys – Electric

July 17th, 2013

PSB take their signature synth-pop and mess it up in some thrillingly disorienting ways - ill-advised Example guest rap aside, it's a bold return to form.

Review: Jay-Z – Magna Carta… Holy Grail

July 17th, 2013

At a time when exciting things are happening in hip-hop, Jay-Z's tried-and-tested formula feels sadly like a stick with which to beat it back down.

Review: Gold Panda – Half of Where You Live

July 5th, 2013

Gold Panda continues to reclaim the word 'crystalline' as a positive description of a piece of music on his second album.

Review: Deap Vally – Sistrionix

July 5th, 2013

A tedium of identikit riffery, affected 'attitude' and production so very 'now' you could wear it as a wristwatch - we smell the bully stuff.

Review: Dodson and Fogg – Sounds of Day and Night

July 5th, 2013

The third full album in under a year from Chris Wade's psych-folk project, and his finest work yet.

Review: Editors – The Weight of Your Love

July 3rd, 2013

Run out of ideas, or never even had any to start with? Rope in the bloke who turned Kings of Leon into a stadium rock act and sound limp in widescreen.

Review: The Duckworth Lewis Method – Sticky Wickets

July 2nd, 2013

A second album's worth of golden, ELO-worshipping 'cricket pop' from two of the best songwriters going, namely Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh.

Review: Bell X1 – Chop Chop

July 2nd, 2013

Bell X1’s eighth album Chop Chop is one of those ‘stately yet fragile beauty interspersed with clattering broodiness’ affairs: think .

Review: Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down

July 1st, 2013

Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham has put together an extraordinary new band that sounds like nowt else you'll hear in a hurry.