Reviews

Review: J. Cole – Born Sinner

June 27th, 2013

Beats, production and flow all hold up to varying degrees of well, so it's a shame that J. Cole has the square root of sod all to say.

LPs round-up: Kodaline, CSS, Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies

June 24th, 2013

Some cracking albums have been released recently - the new ones from Kodaline, CSS, Goo Goo Dolls and Barenaked Ladies are resoundingly not amongst those.

Review: Holden – The Inheritors

June 24th, 2013

James Holden drops the James from his name and returns with a sizzling follow-up to 2006's The Idiots Are Winning.

Review: µ-Ziq – Chewed Corners

June 24th, 2013

Coming from someone who used to fling disparate ideas at a canvass and make them brilliant however they landed, the bleakness is particularly unsettling.

Review: Jon Hopkins – Immunity

June 24th, 2013

Broodingly clubby, postrocky electronica that bubbles and fizzes over into sheer rapture, like some euphorically shaken-up cola.

Review: Status Quo – Bula Quo!

June 23rd, 2013

This soundtrack to Quo's forthcoming "comedy action" film of the same name is not as bad as you might think...at least not all of it .

Review: Julian Cope – Revolutionary Suicide

June 22nd, 2013

It's actually quite ridiculous how great Cope's 29th LP is - at this stage of former Teardrop Explodes focal point's career, it is an especially monumental achievement.

Review: Jagwar Ma – Howlin

June 22nd, 2013

As if compatriots Tame Impala made a beeline for Screamadelicalicious acid house, and every bit as good as that sounds.

Review: Sigur Rós – Kveikur

June 20th, 2013

It's beautiful, alright, but it must by now be an easily arrived at kind of beautiful for Sigur Rós - drums march more quickly, otherwise it's largely the same basic fare.

Review: Kanye West – Yeezus

June 20th, 2013

Whatever your thoughts on the abrasive music and lyrics, you've got to value a high-profile artist who's prepared to boat-rock and cage-rattle with the best of them.

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