Beyonce has gifted her fans with “The Lion King: The Gift.” The album came out on 19th along with the music video for “Spirit” and a couple of days later, Beyonce expanded on the music video, making it even better and fancier by adding “Bigger” to it. It’s a true gift from the iconic singer […]
Category: Album Reviews
AlunaGeorge have come up with a novel way to stream their debut album…
Simply streaming a new album online ahead of its official release date is so 2012 – and super-cool trailblazers AlunaGeorge are anything but 2012, so they’ve come up with a new way to stream their debut album Body Music. Starting at 12pm (BST) this Thursday (25 July), the duo will be streaming one song from […]
RPA & The United Nations of Sound ‘United Nations of Sound’ – Album Review
With The Verve’s reunion a thing of the past and his appeal as a solo artist steadily decreasing, front-man Richard Ashcroft is back with a new band and what looks to be a new approach… Back in those heady Britpop days of the 90’s, Richard Ashcroft was hailed by many as the greatest front-man of […]
Listen: Earl Sweatshirt streams new mixtape ‘The Road To Doris’
Ahead of his debut album proper Doris, OFWGKTA prodigy Earl Sweatshirt has made a new mixtape available to stream/download. Titled ‘The Road To Doris’, it features previously released tracks like ‘Hive’ and ‘Whoa’ as well as a lot of previously unheard material. It serves as the ideal introduction to Earl ahead of the release of […]
Album stream: La Roux has made snippets of new album ‘Trouble In Paradise’ available to stream online
La Roux’s highly anticipated second album Trouble In Paradise finally gets its release next week (preorder it below). Ahead of that, and to try and counter those pesky online album leaks, the synth-pop star has put generous snippets of the album up for streaming on her website. Looking at the snippet lengths I would guess […]
The Horrors album review – ‘Skying’
The Horrors – Skying After their first album failed to live up to all that ‘most exciting new band’ hype, The Horrors kind of dropped off the radar as everyone looked elsewhere for trendy, big-haired, skinny jeaned rockers to provide the next new exciting sound. The ironic thing is, if everyone had stuck around […]
Nas – ‘Life Is Good’ album review
Nas – Life Is Good [rating:4/5] Buy: Life Is Good Now hip-hop is not exactly my specialist subject, but I am quite a big fan of Mr Nasir Jones so I felt I had to give his new album the once over. I’m not a total hip-hop noob though, I know enough to get by […]
Big Boi ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty’ – Album Review
Big Boi new solo album reviewed As one half of absurdly successful rap duo OutKast, Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton was the quiet man of hip-hop. Now with his long awaited debut solo album, his voice is loud and proud…
Album Review: Paul Cook and The Chronicles – ‘Volume 1’
Paul Cook and The Chronicles – Volume 1 [rating:4/5] I don’t usually bother too much with acoustic singer-songwriter types – mostly because they tend to be a bit dull and try so hard to strike an emotional chord they forget to actually write good tunes. Not so with this guy. I featured his single ‘Candlelight’ […]
Album Review: “Free Weezy Album” by Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne’s project “Free Weezy Album” is complete and out now. This much-anticipated album from New Oreleans singer was premiered on TIDAL last week. The project includes 15 different tracks, featuring various top artists such as Wiz Khalifa, Cory Gunz and Jeezy. The project is produced by Cool & Dre, Develop, Beats, Jake Throth and […]