Released: January 26th, 2023 4/5 From the slowly building intro of Inzane to the dying embers of title track Pure Love Oslo’s Mall Girl meanders through many art rock moods on their new album. The languid, dreamy tone of songs like Energy Lights and English Breakfast are occasionally obliterated by skittering fret virtuosity and stuttering […]
Released: January 19th, 2023 3.5/5 When it came to writing and recording Melt the Honey Madeline Link, aka PACKS, and her band, Dexter Nash (guitar), Noah O’Neil (bass) and Shane Hooper (drums) decamped to Mexico and continued a communal endeavour that’s worked since her Take the Cake mini album of 2021. The result maintains some […]
Released: November 29th, 2023 4/5 Jopango is a joyous exploration and documentation of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno’s journey around the world but particularly focused on Kenyan heritage. Accompanied with his nyatiti, an eight-stringed two-necked lyre instrument, he has sought to curate his experience inspired by Western Kenyan Benga musical roots. He’s been […]
Released: November 3rd, 2023 4/5 Acts of Light, Woods’ third full-length record, is a collection of experimental sonic excavations. The instant you press play you’re transported elsewhere, jolted into a subterranean space where sounds resonate up close, disquieting and wild. The feeling of being in an alive, ever-changing scenery is somewhat unsettling. The expanse of […]
Released: October 27th, 2023 3/5 It’s been five years since Wild Nothing released Indigo but now Jack Tatum is dispatching Hold, an album that retains characteristic dream pop sounds but mixes in more mature pop gloss, along with some occasionally sombre lyrics. This outing sees Tatum’s songwriting embrace both the quieter moments, Presidio and Little […]
Released: October 27th 2023 3/5 Listening to Black Dog, the album, is akin to having an amorphous grasp on reality. Dreams, or more accurately, nightmares melt together. Visions are never fully revealed. The unsettling rhythms and organic seething, beats glitching turn the listened inside out. This is very much a headspace album full of viscera […]
Released: October 13th 2023 3.5/5 Coming almost exactly a year on from Formetera this surprise addition of songs makes the entirety feel far more complete. Formetera II showcases a band at the height of their songwriting powers whether that’s the ‘regret disco’ of Just The Once, the relaxed dreaming of Who Would You Be For […]
Released: October 6th, 2023 4/5 Kicking off with the raucous duo of I Used To Be Fun and Treat Me Better this new Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers album explodes out of the gate. Showcasing their slamming musical powers and harmonic group vocals coupled with wry self-deprecation and compassionate lyrics. The band has widened […]
Released: September 29th 2023 3.5/5 Launching into their second full-length record Yard Slow Pulp fine tune their lo-fi guitar fuzz aesthetic into a much more collaborative effort and match the dark sardonic lyricism, on Doubt for instance, with the upbeat, catchy sounds that bring them to wider exposure, both Slugs and Cramps fit the bill. […]
Released: September 15th 2023 3/5 Woods have existed for nearly two decades in the psychedelic, folk, lo-fi, freak, and indie corners of their fans’ record collections and it feels like Perennial, as the name literarily suggests, is a new collection of the same kaleidoscopic music-shaped over so many years. The notion that perennial plants and […]
