Music Reviews

They Might Be Giants Join Us

You might know veteran New Yorkers They Might Be Giants as the one-hit wonders behind Birdhouse in Your Soul, or for their music for Malcolm in the Middle, or even their music for children. Join Us, their fifteenth album, promises more of all that, and is, as you'd expect, a difficult offer to refuse.

Mark Davison takes them up on their invitation...

Serengeti Family & Friends

With help from Why's? Yoni Wolf, the prolific emcee explores life's growing pains through a dichotomy of fantastical and ordinary tales.

Juan Edgardo Rodríguez just tuned in to the darkest of sitcoms...

Com Truise Galactic Melt

Com Truise makes 1980s inspired electronic music. Artists drawing on the same inspiration are everywhere - can this rise above the rest of it?

Andrew Baer reviews...

Crystal Antlers Two-Way Mirror

Crystal Antlers are a band this reviewer has always wanted to love, but they've never given me the opportunity. Will Two-Way Mirror change that, or will I continue to dwell in an emotionally vapid music-listener relationship?

Andrew Baer tries to love again for the very first time...

Remote Islands Days of Heaven

Remote Islands deliver twelve retro-cinematic and melancholy sea shanties with their new album Days of Heaven via the reliable Stunned records.

Pierce Brown reviews...

Beyoncé 4

Gary McGinley finds 4 to be all gong and no dinner.

Click here to find out why...

The Ladybug Transistor Clutching Stems

The Ladybug Transistor haven’t always crafted the perfect picture of coherency with their sometimes shambolic albums, but they’ve always had a remarkable knack for knocking out enjoyable indie pop.

Matt Montgomery reviews...

Zomby Dedication

Zomby may be capable of a lot of things – from mastering any genre he attempts to being the most reliably unreliable live act this side of Amy Winehouse – unfortunately, it seems that he's not capable of finishing what he starts.

Mark Davison is impressed... and irritated...