Music Reviews

Yeasayer Fragrant World

The Brooklyn-based "Middle Eastern-psych-snap-gospel" act are back with their third album. Does its bizarre title suggest that they're now offering olfactory delights to go along with the usual auditory ones?

Mark Davison is disappointed to find that they even struggle with the latter...

Azealia Banks Fantasea

Whether you loved her EP earlier this year and can't wait for her proper debut or you never even got on board with 212, Azealia Banks has put together a mixtape that demands your attention.

Forrest Cardamenis dives into a...

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Mature Themes

Catapulted into the wider public consciousness with 2010's sensational Before Today, Ariel Pink is back and this time he wants to talk about mature themes.

David Coleman is ready to get serious...

Jessie Ware Devotion

The SBTRKT collaborator releases her highly-anticipated debut album. However, it might not be quite what you think.

Joe Rivers gets his genres in a twist...

Lorelei Enterprising Sidewalks

Coming back after an 18 year absence, Slumberland royalty Lorelei dial up the post-rock and show their newer label mates that it's not all about shimmering guitars and twee aspirations.

Joshua Pickard reviews...

R. Stevie Moore Lo-Fi High Fives... A Kind Of Best Of...

R. Stevie Moore is one of the most fascinating, productive musicians of the DIY music scene. While most would struggle to eke out a minor pop tune onto a four-track Tascam unit over a week’s time, fully realized compositions seem to ooze out of Moore’s every pore and solidify into vinyl discs on the ground below him...

Andrew Ciraulo wanders through tape-hiss and fuzz to review....