Album Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: Howler ‘World Of Joy’

A band’s second album is always seen as the hard one. They want to develop sound and style without distancing themselves too far from their debut. Minneapolis four-piece Howler released their debut album ‘America Give Up’ just over two years…

ALBUM REVIEW: Dexters ‘Shimmer Gold’

Released this week (17th March), Dexters have offered the world its debut album ‘Shimmer Gold’. Packed full of Kinks and Ray Davis inspired lyrics, the album combines bygone semantics with an optimistic indie sound to bridge the gap between ‘good-old’…

Tracks Of The Week 17.03.14

If it’s a bit of ebullient garage-rock you’re after, then Norwegian Grammy nominated, Death By Unga Bunga, are the guys for you. About to release their third album, DBUG’s new single – ‘Tambourine’  – is full of catchy, trippy melodies…

Tracks Of The Week: 10.03.14

For months, I’ve been anticipating a new record from my favourite surfer pop-rockers, Real Estate, and at last it has arrived: ‘Atlas’ was out last week, and lead single ‘Talking Backwards’ is a pretty promising slice of what we can…

ALBUM REVIEW: Pharrell Williams ‘G I R L’

Is it coincidence that the week Pharrell Williams released his first solo album in eight years, the sunshine returned to the shores of the UK? Of course it was, he’s not magic. What ability Pharrell lacks in weather manipulation however…

ALBUM REVIEW: Augustines ‘Augustines’

Following their 2011 debut, ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships’, Augustines return with their eagerly awaited self-titled album. It’s been quite the journey for the Brooklyn based boys, with the first album revealing the hardships life has thrown at them; most prominently the death…

ALBUM REVIEW: iTCH ‘The Deep End’

Over the last few weeks I’ve been listening to iTCH’s debut album, The Deep End. Even now, I’m not entirely sure what to make of the offering from the former The King Blues frontman. Its one of those albums where…

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Lips ‘Underneath the Rainbow’

The last time we heard from Black Lips was back in 2011 with ‘Arabia Mountain’ but we’re soon to be graced with ‘Underneath the Rainbow’, the band’s seventh studio album. The lyrics “I don’t want to wait” from Track No….

ALBUM REVIEW: We Are Catchers ‘We Are Catchers’

Bands from Liverpool have constantly reimagined the sound of the place since The Beatles invented music on Merseyside all those years ago.  The fertile Eric’s scene of the late 70s brought about post punk with the Bunnymen, Julian Copeland and…