Tag: Review

LIVE: The Orb – Oslo Hackney, London 13.03.05

On Friday night, crammed into a darkened upstairs room in the intimate venue of London’s Oslo, both older Gen X’s and fresher faced millennials combined to loose themselves in appreciation for the original underground sound. Prior to the release of their already-acclaimed ‘History of The…

ALBUM: Heems ‘Eat, Pray, Thug’

Rating: Politically motivated hip hop, in the eyes of most onlookers, is a concept so outdated it shares a graveyard with cassette tapes and shell suits. There’s no room for it in the modern era, they say, because a rapper…

ALBUM: Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late

Rating: It had been coming. Whether it was fooling around courtside with NBA stars, appearing at Kanye West’s Roc City gig or even releasing his own short film, Aubrey ‘Drake‘ Graham had been everywhere this week. Many called Drizzy’s surprise…

ALBUM: The Sundowners ‘Sundowners’

Rating: The Sundowners debut, self-titled album has been highly anticipated as the standout release on the Mersey scene in 2015, and it doesn’t dissapoint, providing a beautifully crafted release you can listen to again and again. The album is strong in distorted…

EP: IV Rox ‘Imperfections’

Rating: Over the years in the UK, we’ve been known around the world for our boy/girl bands. From The Beatles to the Spice Girls and now One Direction, we’ve never been short of a collective of young men or women…

ALBUM: Kodaline ‘Coming Up For Air’

Rating: Kodaline, the Dublin-based rock quartet who have been compared to the likes of U2, Keane and Oasis, are set to release their second album, Coming Up For Air, following the success of their debut, In A Perfect World. With recording starting just after…

LIVE: Ghostpoet – Gullivers, Manchester 29.01.15

Rating: The roads are closed and services terminated all over the country due to some flurries of snow, and Manchester is no exception. Luckily, the crowd seem to have braved the harsh weather to cram into Gullivers for tonight’s sold…

ALBUM: Björk ‘Vulnicura’

Rating: The amount of music Björk has wowed us with over the years means that her “mind-blowing” ninth studio album Vulnicura – released a full two months ahead of schedule after internet leaks – should come as no surprise to our ears. Björk’s albums are that…

EP Review: Freddy Cass – ‘In Session at the Joint’

I’m often very skeptical about new singer-songwriters; surely there can only be so many capable of bringing something fresh? Clearly, there’s still stuff to be done, as St. Albans-based Freddy Cass proves. As well as a BBC Introducing session, Cass…