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/// – 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…
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 [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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Following in the footsteps of fellow A$AP Mob member Rocky, A$AP Ferg is releasing his highly anticipated debut album Trap Lord next week. Before it hits the shops and download sites though, Ferg has made the whole thing available to stream online. To listen to Trap Lord head over to the specially constructed site: www.traplordaugust20.com…
