Reviews

Review: Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Conscious

May 11th, 2013

The Brooklyn rapper's fifth frequently hits those old school sweet spots but winds up just a touch on the predictable side.

Review: Little Boots – Nocturnes

May 11th, 2013

...in which Victoria Hesketh's head spins around like that bit in The Exorcist, or so she claims.

Review: The D.O.T. – Diary

May 10th, 2013

Mike Skinner of The Streets and Robert Harvey of The Music team up for a second album's worth of surprisingly satisfying and soulful pop.

Review: Ghostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light

May 10th, 2013

"It may not be a barrel of laughs, but it's one of the more thoughtful, complex and satisfying LPs we've encountered this year".

Review: Longpigs – On and On (The Anthology)

May 10th, 2013

Career retrospective of great lost '90s group proves a real eye-opener for a certain Rocksucker scribe who only ever knew "She Said".

Review: Deerhunter – Monomania

May 8th, 2013

The Atlanta psychedelics' 6th LP is the sound of an exemplary band going about their exemplary business.

Review: The Moody Blues – Timeless Flight

May 7th, 2013

Rocksucker listens through a 35-track sampler of the forthcoming Moodies box set Timeless Flight, a comprehensive package covering their astonishing career.

Review: Iggy and The Stooges – Ready to Die

May 5th, 2013

By turns cacophonous and disarmingly tender, Ready to Die is yet another fine latter-day album in a year that's been rich with them.

Review: Guided By Voices – English Little League

May 4th, 2013

The fourth and most consistent album from the second wave of GBV's 'classic era' lineup - by gum, what a treasure this band still is.

Review: Savages – Silence Yourself

May 2nd, 2013

A shredding debut album that variously brings to mind Pixies, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and - most unexpectedly - Shirley Bassey.

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