Music Reviews
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The Internet Purple Naked Ladies
For all of Odd Future’s daring, this album’s biggest hindrance is a lack of ruthlessness at crucial moments.
David Zammitt reviews... -
Richard Youngs Amaranthine
Reflections on Richard Youngs and the avant-garde.
Michael Iovino reviews... -
ProEf All Eye Know EP
This Toronto-based producer offers some interesting, if unambitious, leftfield hip-hop beats, partly constructed from found sound from his recent EU tour.
Stephen Wragg reviews... -
Guided By Voices Let's Go Eat The Factory
Sixteen albums in and still going strong. Robert Pollard reconvenes the seminal mid 90s GBV line-up for a classy reunion.
David John Wood hears voices... -
Diagrams Black Light
Former Tunng member Sam Genders has delivered an album of brainy arrangements and palatable textural work.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez could be more positive... -
Zs 33
On 33, Zs becomes a religious entity. In order to do that, they had to do another thing: change the spirituality of the very instruments they play.
Michael Iovino reviews... -
Korn The Path Of Totality
For their tenth album nu-metal veterans Korn have gone 'dubstep'. Which is surely a recipe for musical disaster.
Mark Davison deeply regrets volunteering to review this one... -
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness
Hot on the heels of its anointment as one of our albums of the year, here is the full review of a record you really should own.
Joe Iliff enjoys... -
Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Featuring covers, original recordings and re-workings of existing Amy Winehouse tracks, Island release a compendium of the late singer's unheard work on Lioness: Hidden Treasures.
Joe Rivers wonders whether the record can live up to its title... -
Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost
It's not very often a band can remind us of so much and be so unique at the same time. When it does happen, it's probably a sign of quality songwriting and worth checking out. But did Girls create something unique or make us reach for our old records?
Hint: Forrest Cardamenis doesn't care that his record player is broken.
