Music Reviews
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Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin down
Kurt Vile drops his latest LP, and provides further evidence of his conclusive authenticity, and his position as one of songwriting’s most understated commodities.
Carl Purvis is feeling particularly pensive... -
Micachu & the Shapes Good Sad Happy Bad
Good Sad Happy Bad marks Mica Levi's return to her main project after scoring the film Under the Skin. For such an uncompromising creative it comes across as surprisingly hollow, approaching a more banal songwriting approach with a hodgepodge of unvarnished ideas that don't amount to their true potential.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Blank Realm Illegals in Heaven
Illegals in Heaven is an entirely new phase in Blank Realm’s decade-long career, one in which they’re unafraid to explore a more approachable sound without renouncing their feverish delirium.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Kagoule Urth
Nottingham trio Kagoule drop an invigorating debut displaying all the craft of a sadistic surgeon, dissecting the bones of the US 90s alternative scene into a many-headed beast with more cunning, and more dexterity than what it's superseded.
Carl Purvis reviews... -
Yo La Tengo Stuff Like That There
In Yo La Tengo's universe past and present converge as all-directions promenades, applying the same exacting standards to originals and covers alike.
Angel Aguilar reviews... -
Destroyer Poison Season
Dan Bejar's 10th solo effort is sumptuously complete, sleek and highly refined, repurposing the champagne-coated synths of Kaputt with the aid of a full band to further accentuate his high-brow witticisms.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Sleaford Mods Key Markets
Sleaford Mods are as brilliant and vital at what they do as they've ever been, on their most overtly political record yet.
Stephen Wragg reviews... -
Chelsea Wolfe Abyss
Chelsea Wolfe's latest album takes the crushing, panic-inducing feeling of sleep paralysis and turns it into a haunted album of doom, the heaviest in her career.
Joe Marvilli sinks into the abyss... -
Georgia Georgia
Georgia's lively self-titled is a fine blend of rhythmic eccentricity under a pop guise, seeking new ways to rewrite accessible song patterns with a decidedly forward-thinking thrust.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Stern Bone Turquoise
On the cusp of avant-garde abstraction and melodic accessibility, Stern's "alien pop" expansively mines a bleak and beautifully twisted sonic landscape for angularly anxious sounds of doom metal shrinking into slowcore and early psychedelic music.
Grant Phipps listens into the musical sinews of another galaxy...
