Babyshambles – Sequel To The Prequel {rating} Download: Sequel to the Prequel It’s impossible to talk about a new Babyshambles album without focusing on the headline-making, drug-taking antics of one Peter Doherty. But all that kind of talk is so mid-Noughties, and if anyone deserves credit for getting Sequel To The Prequel made it’s bassist […]
Category: Album Reviews
The September album release schedule is ridiculously good!
If you’ve been thinking recently that 2013 has been a bit underwhelming so far in terms of big new albums, then September might just put it right. Autumn is generally a good time for new albums, as bands who opted to not release new LPs before the festivals now gear up for a big release […]
NO CEREMONY/// album review
NO CEREMONY/// – NO CEREMONY/// {rating} Download: No Ceremony/// Who are NO CEREMONY///? We’re still not quite sure. They’ve famously kept the details to a minimum in order to build up a bit of mystery. The veil of secrecy has started to drop now though – we know there’s three of them, we know they’re […]
Album stream: Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
Unsurprisingly, seeing as the album leaked earlier today, Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is now available to stream online in full. The Canadian band have just made the album available to stream via their official YouTube channel in the form of a full-length lyric video that weirdly features Brazilian dancers – apparently the footage is from a […]
Bloc Party – ‘Four’ album review
Bloc Party – Four [rating:4/5] Buy: Four Back in the middle of the last decade, Bloc Party were the very definition of uber-cool scenesters. Nowadays, even their most ardent of fans would struggle to summon up the audacity to call them ‘relevant’. Too much time has passed and music, for better or worse, has moved […]
Franz Ferdinand album stream – listen to ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’
Former indie darlings Franz Ferdinand are on the comeback trail in 2013, and are set to release their fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action next week. We’ve already heard the singles ‘Right Action‘ and ‘Love Illumination’, and you can now stream the album in full over at NPR. The album is released on […]
Album review: Drenge – ‘Drenge’
Drenge – Drenge {rating} Buy: Drenge Who are Drenge? They’re sibling duo Eoin and Rory Loveless who hail from Derbyshire and have made a name for themselves by following The White Stripes method of making a terrific racket with just a guitar and drums. Bizarrely, they were namechecked by Labour MP Tom Watson in his […]
Album review: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
Earl Sweatshirt – Doris {rating} Buy: Doris It says something of the high regard Earl Sweatshirt is held in that, in a year that has seen big new albums from Kanye and Jay Z, his debut album proper Doris is still seen as one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop LPs 2013. His association with […]
Album stream: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has just made his debut album proper Doris available to stream online ahead of its release next week. The album is his first collection of new material since the breakthrough free album/mixtape Earl in 2010. Following that, he was sent to rehab in Samoa by his mum – so Doris […]
Album review: White Lies – ‘BIG TV’
White Lies – BIG TV {rating} Buy: BIG TV It may seem like a long time ago, but it was only in 2008 that White Lies were being stalked by record labels and the music press alike – who touted them as genuine indie-rock superstars in the making. In 2009 their debut album To Lose […]