Music Reviews
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Highlife Best Bless
Highlife's debut EP of Brooklyn-tinged afrobeat features guest appearences by members of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti and Gang Gang Dance, and they've already got several support slots with Animal Collective under their belt. So they're well connected, but are they any good?
Mark Davison holds out hope for the album at least... -
Wild Swans The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years
A mere 21 years after their last album, the Wild Swans return with their third long player. Will anticipation bring disappointment or has it been worth the wait?
D.C. Harrison finds out... -
The Nighty Nite Dimples EP
The Paper Chase’s John Congleton decides to be creepy.
Sean Caldwell reviews... -
Woods Sun and Shade
Lo-fi indie folkers Woods continue their album-per-year catalogue with Sun and Shade. Don't worry, it's just another installment.
David Hogg reviews... -
Idaho You Were a Dick
Singer/Songwriter Jeff Martin releases his first LP as Idaho since 2005's The Lone Gunman. Appropriately, You Were a Dick is as beautiful, sparse, and immediately forgettable as the band’s namesake.
Benjamin Jones reviews... -
Fair Ohs Everything is Dancing
East Londoners look into California punk in their pursuit to excel at Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez reviews... -
Cats and Cats and Cats Motherwhale
Less than a year since the release of their début album, If I'd Had an Atlas, British band Cats and Cats and Cats return with their follow-up, Motherwhale.
Craig Stevens is surrounded by cats... -
Dananananaykroyd There Is A Way
The "fight pop" indie-hardcore jokers return for a second album, with production by Ross Robinson, and they're as hyperactive as ever...
Stephen Wragg can't quite keep up... -
Gallhammer The End
Yet another all-female Black Metal band from Japan.
Sam Redlark is pummelled into mute submission... -
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant (25th Anniversary Edition)
R.E.M. followed up their “not so feel good album” Fables of the Reconstruction with their “feel better” album Lifes Rich Pageant in 1986. The fourth in R.E.M.’s canon to reach the 25th anniversary mark, I.R.S. and Capitol Records have unleashed another reissue unto the public with a poster, photo cards and demos to digest. Oh yeah, and the album.
Sean Caldwell is not Superman...
