Albums & Releases

Album of the week: The Knife – Shaking The Habitual

The Knife’s long-awaited fourth album is terrific, tough, too long but still quite brilliant… Shaking…

Album of the week: Daughter – If You Leave

The music of Daughter has always burned with a smouldering intensity, a brittle air of…

Listen to And So I Watch You From Afar’s new album All Hail Bright Futures

I actually wrote the press blurb for All Hail Bright Futures, And So I Watch…

Listen to the debut album from Biggles Flys Again – Remember Saturday

You can hear a lot of influential touchstones on Remember Saturday, the debut album from…

Album review: Space Dimension Controller – Welcome to Mikrosektor-50

Let’s talk about concept albums for a minute. Taking an overarching concept or theme more…

Album of the week: Rhye – Woman

From the white sleeve with the elegant font to the cover zoomed into the neck…

Review & stream: Kool Thing’s debut album

Jon Dark and Julie Chance’s music as Kool Thing to date, has shapeshifted in forms…

Review: MMOTHS – Diaries EP

It’s been a fascinating thing to watch, the trajectory of 19 year-old Jack Colleran/MMOTHS. The…

Listen to the EP from Dublin-based Aussie Liza Flume – Full Steam Ahead

Liza Flume grabbed attention with her ‘What We Called Love’ song, a track which marked…

Album of the week: Mano Le Tough – Changing Days

If you were expecting a non-stop floor-filler from the Irish Berlin-based producer you’ll be disappointed…

Listen: Suuns’ new album Images Du Futur

Montreal’s Suuns‘ propulsive rock music made their debut Zeroes QC a darkly engaging listen. Its…

Album of the week: inc. – no world

Brothers in sound and blood create a great R&B mood record… It’s been well-documented that…

Listen to Diamond Dagger’s new ’80s electro EP – DD-1

Formerly named Sarsparilla, Diamond Dagger’s spent the last year or so playing live with David…

Album of the week: Girls Names – The New Life

If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second…

Listen to My Bloody Valentine’s new album mbv

It finally happened. My Bloody Valentine released a followup album to their seminal album Loveless…

Album of the week: I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome

The appearance of not only a debut album stream from I Am The Cosmos last…

Album stream roundup: Local Natives, Nosaj Thing,Frightened Rabbit, Darkstar, Unknown Mortal Orchestra & more

Lots of albums being released at the moment so it’s hard to keep up. Here’s…

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down feat. Joanna Newsom – ‘Kindness Be Conceived’

The new album from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, We The Common is…

Listen to Quompilation #3: Irish bands cover their favourite songs of 2012

For the last two years, January has been brightened up by the appearance of Quompilation,…

Album of the week: FaltyDL – Hardcourage

Before 2012, the music of New York producer Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL was synonymous with…