Albums & Releases

Frank Ocean releases a visual album Endless that’s not Boys Don’t Cry

The release of Boys Don’t Cry, Frank Ocean’s upcoming album has been much promised and…

Album of the week: All Tvvins – llVV

Band origin stories are usually littered with groups that weren’t great, were too young to…

First Listen: Everything Shook’s gothic electro debut Drinking About You
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Robyn Bromfield, Jessica Kennedy, Áine Stapleton’s music as Everything Shook falls somewhere between ambient electronica,…

Skinner has made 2016’s definitive album about skulling cans and smoking rollies

When the world seems to be turning madder with each passing day, sometimes you need…

First Listen: Pearse McGloughlin’s Nocturnes – The Soft Animal LP

Pearse McGloughlin will release his fourth album of music under the name Nocturnes on Friday.…

The debut album from Icelandic female rappers Reykjavíkurdætur is here

One of the best things I saw at Iceland Airwaves, and last year in general,…

Album of the week: Whitney – Light Upon The Lake

A Chicago band formed by guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich…

Listen to the new Death In Vegas album – Transmission

Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless last appeared with new material in 2011, via Trans-Love Energies,…

Album of the week: Skepta – Konnichiwa

The gear change that happens when an artist shifts to the next level of their…

Album of the week: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

Five more years. That was the time period that Radiohead needed to step out of…

Album review: Doomsquad – Total Time

The Toronto band Doomsquad began life making “sandpaper-cheesegrater folk music,” but the transition on second…

Bibio – A Mineral Love review

Bibio‘s newest album is the man at his most expressive. Since his 2009 breakout album…

First listen: Lisa O’Neill – Pothole In The Sky

Let it be known that development that is worthwhile and sustainable doesn’t happen overnight. The…

Album of the week: Rusangano Family – Let The Dead Bury The Dead

MynameisjOhn, MuRli and God Knows first appeared in 2014 with an album called Rusangano /…

Bonzai’s new EP Sleep Hungry is a bricolage of club sounds

One of the Nialler9 New Artists of 2016 and a Mura Masa collaborator, the Dublin-raised…

Album of the week: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.

As a measure of how next level Kendrick Lamar has become in the last two…

Mmoths’ debut Luneworks is the result of nocturnal experimentalism

It’s been an unusually long journey for Jack Colleran from the time he first appeared…

Album premiere: J. Cowhie – Veil

The music of John Cowhie aka Goodtime, has consistently had a textured appeal to it…

Album of the week: The Gloaming – 2

This weekend, and part of the next week, The Gloaming will take up a sold…

Album of the week: King – We Are King

They might have a generic name and not much of a presence but the music…