Music Reviews

Rhyton Rhyton

Rhyton's debut album is full of psych-rock, desert-blues, improv-grooves and drones.

Songs of Green Pheasant Soft Wounds

Five years on from the excellent Gyllyng Street, Duncan Sumpner returns with a new album on a new label. But was it worth the wait?

David Coleman attempts to find out...

The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know

The Scottish miserablists trade gleaming guitars for slathering analog synths, but their fascination for the macabre remains.

Juan Edgardo Rodríguez sees the darkness...

The poverty-chic rave-rap of Die Antwoord's early work seemed too good to be true. And it was, as it turned out that the supposedly white trash rappers were members of South Africa's satire and visual arts communities. So what did they do for a second act after the game was up?

Mark Davison doesn't approve of this sort of thing, but still quite likes it...

Air Le Voyage dans la Lune

To mark the restoration of a hand-coloured print of Georges Méliès' miraculous Le Voyage dans la Lune, gallic knob-twiddlers Air were commissioned to provide an accompanying soundtrack to the short. But things rather spiralled outwards from there.

Mark Davison isn't convinced that this is going to get off the ground...

Shining Live Blackjazz

Norway’s Shining follow-up their 2010 prog metal masterpiece, Blackjazz, with a live album and concert film. So, now they have a prog metal masterpiece played live.

Sean Caldwell reviews...

Busdriver Beaus$Eros

Underground rap mainstay Busdriver's new record is his least hip-hop album yet. Produced by promising newcomer Loden, Beaus$Eros shoots for cartoonish, propulsive, and original alt-electro-pop.

Stephen Wragg Swandives into a Drinking Glass...

The Weeknd Echoes of Silence

The Weeknd ends his "Echoes of Silence" trilogy with an aptly titled mixtape that's every bit as good as its predecessors. He continues to evolve and improve by the month.

Andrew Baer does every drug he can find and then reviews...