Album Reviews

REVIEW: Ocean Colour Scene Yesterday Today 1992 – 2018

REVIEW: Ocean Colour Scene Yesterday Today 1992 – 2018

Everlasting harmonies, magnetic rhythms, endearing lyrics and musical chemistry to die for, encased together with eye capturing Modernist imagery, Ocean Colour Scene’s new box set Yesterday Today 1992 – 2018, released via Demon Music Group, delves into the bands extensive…

REVIEW: The Academic ‘Sitting Pretty’

Rating: In the current musical sphere, Ireland is a hotbed for some of the most exciting post-punk bands around. The Murder Capital, Gilla Band and the unstoppable Fontaines DC are reshaping music in their own image. Now, Mullingar’s, The Academic,…

ALBUM: JW Francis – Dream House

Rating: New York-based jangle popper JW Francis releases his latest album, ‘Dream House’, a record packed full of lo-fi dream-pop that not only revels in its slacker identity, but pays homage to the early 00’s New York scene. Opening up…

ALBUM: Rodolphe Coster and Band ‘High With The People’

Rating: It is without question that within the past five years guitar music has experienced a boom not seen since the indie-landfill days of the mid-2000’s. Fontaines DC, Dry Cleaning and Wet Leg are breaking into the mainstream consciousness with…

ALBUM REVIEW: Third Lung ‘Gameplay’

Rating: Reading based indie-outfit, ‘Third Lung’ explode on the scene with their debut LP, ‘GAMEPLAY’, in a rip-roaring affair that takes inspiration for legendary acts such as James and the Stereophonics whilst still maintaining a modern sensibility. The album opener,…

REVIEW: Bernard Butler Live At Rough Trade East

REVIEW: Bernard Butler Live At Rough Trade East

Rewind back to the start of the year Rough Trade East hosted a special event launching the Edsel 4 CD / 2 LP reissue of Bernard Butler’s debut solo album People Move On. Originally released via Alan McGee’s Creation Records…

REVIEW: 90s Club Classics (140g Black Vinyl)

REVIEW: 90s Club Classics (140g Black Vinyl)

Decorating sticky nightclub dancefloors, MTV paylists and Top Of The Pops studios where innovative dance tracks that have gone to be continual reminders of the 90’s heady glowstick years. Demon Music Group have now set free a bunch of the…

REVIEW: The Beatles – Revolver 2022 mix

REVIEW: The Beatles – Revolver 2022 mix

The Beatles Revolver. Opening with George Harrison’s Batman theme groove Taxman; middle section dives deep into the jolly psychedelic Jugnauth world of Yellow Submarine; earth shattering supersonic drum pattern finale Tomorrow Never Knows completes the long player that sounded like…