Reviews

Review: Matsuki Ayumu – TERRAFORMING

January 30th, 2014

On which the Japanese Gruff Rhys confirms himself as one of the very best pop songwriters going.

January 28th, 2014

Total Strife Forever? Absolute joy right now, more like. How's that for positively inflected sarcasm.

January 28th, 2014

'Fuzzy', 'druggy' and 'sleazy' may sound like dwarfs from the bad side of the mine train tracks, but they also describe Blank Realm.

January 28th, 2014

Energetic songs lurk within the eruptions of distortion... Wearying but impressive.

January 27th, 2014

Fast-picked guitars soar overhead, a neat trick yet one that only makes them sound more like other bands.

January 27th, 2014

Once susceptible to run-of-the-mill punk-pop, the quality control is now operated more judiciously.

January 22nd, 2014

Taps into a state between wake and sleep, making a marvellous mystery of it all without surrendering melody.

January 21st, 2014

Ellis-Bextor's dry, expressionless voice saps any life out of the topsoil of the baroque arrangements.

January 21st, 2014

More neatly categorisable pop/rock for middle-aged broadsheet writers who find imagination too scary.

January 17th, 2014

The Jicks are right behind Malkmus's every whim and wig-out, at Jagbags or otherwise.