Melancholic, yet mesmerising, yet tender; lockdown-isolation was another fuel to fill Fog Lake’s musical engine. Defined by mellow, ambient, reverberant and cold instrumentation and noises, Aaron Powell’s…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Fog Lake – Tragedy Reel”
Category: REVIEWS
TRACK-BY-TRACK ALBUM REVIEW: Sharon Van Etten – Epic Ten
In celebration of 10 years passing since Sharon Van Etten’s 2010 album Epic was released, some of Van Etten’s favourite artists and bands have taken a track off…… Read more “TRACK-BY-TRACK ALBUM REVIEW: Sharon Van Etten – Epic Ten”
ALBUM REVIEW: Bull – Discover Effortless Living
The length of time it took from Bull’s formation to only now releasing a debut studio album is massively respectable, having stayed together for so long and having…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Bull – Discover Effortless Living”
ALBUM REVIEW: Black Honey – Written & Directed
The anticipation of Black Honey’s latest album has been building since Summer 2020. The deletion of all their posts on Instagram defined a new era of Black…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Black Honey – Written & Directed”
ALBUM REVIEW: Sea Girls – Open Up Your Head
Over the past decade the indie genre has stagnated, wallowing in a bottomless pool of its own egocentrism. Each of the once-renowned heroes— The Strokes and The…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Sea Girls – Open Up Your Head”
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Garratt – Love, Death & Dancing
Jack Garratt, with his debut album Phase, proved himself to be the epitome of a ‘solo artist’. Writing, performing and producing everything on his debut album; the successes of…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Garratt – Love, Death & Dancing”
ALBUM REVIEW: The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form
We either listen to the new The 1975 album, or we don’t. Unlike Greta Thunberg’s message in the eponymous opening track, there are no consequences to our selfish…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form”
SINGLE REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – ‘Hollywood’
Car Seat Headrest’s single Hollywood, taken from upcoming album Making A Door Less Open, is a refreshing and welcome damnation of the place where people go to…… Read more “SINGLE REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – ‘Hollywood’”
ALBUM REVIEW: Ed O’Brien makes his solo debut with ‘Earth’
“I never planned it” usually refers to eating the entire tray of banana bread in one sitting, or being sat in the pub eight pints deep on…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: Ed O’Brien makes his solo debut with ‘Earth’”
ALBUM REVIEW: King Charles – ‘Out Of My Mind’
Returning with his third studio album, Charles Costa (aka King Charles) has released Out of My Mind, a sonically incoherent yet lyrically revealing album into Charles’ discovery of…… Read more “ALBUM REVIEW: King Charles – ‘Out Of My Mind’”
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