Water Machine’s “God Park” debut album is a deranged delight
Glasgow’s Water Machine crashes onto the scene with God Park, a glorious debut that sounds like a post-punk petting zoo run by art school dropouts on a sugar high. These…
Patience and introspection power Lucy Gooch’s “Desert Window”
Lucy Gooch’s debut album, Desert Window, is a masterclass in atmospheric tension and release, a record that feels both ancient and contemporary, grounded and otherworldly. Building upon the ethereal foundations…
These New Puritans return refined but fractured on “Crooked Wing”
Six years is a long time between records, but These New Puritans – Essex-born brothers Jack and George Barnett – have always worked at their own pace, with a steely-eyed…
M(h)aol are cathartic, vital and technically impressive on new album “Something Soft”
M(h)aol have evolved with explosive clarity on Something Soft. Where Attachment Styles, their debut, was raw and revolutionary, their latest effort sharpens that edge into something more intimate and ferociously…
Cloth soundtrack the golden hour with “Pink Silence”
As the band Cloth, Scottish twins Rachael and Paul Swinton have always dealt in the subtle and the spectral. But on their third album, the pair step boldly into more…