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…
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…
Turn up to Shepherds Bush Empire the night that The Twang and The Enemy are playing and, unsurprisingly you’ll find yourself completely overrun by football hooligan-types in Fred Perry shirts and Harrington Jackets – the type who, even when singing…
It is often that new bands emerge from the depths of rock and roll and get pushed to the back of radio stations playlists. However, yesterday the Sugarmill was home to an exception. Signing with Noel Gallagher’s manager, Neon Waltz…
Rating: Swiss-American hip-hop group Nefew return with Rise of the Antihero, the sequel to their 2010 mixtape Antihero Begins and the duo’s first full length studio album since 2007’s Off the Cuff. Rise of the Antihero is a record about…
Rating: Someone challenged me to write this review without mentioning his beard and to that I say: sod it let’s put it in the opening line. All beards aside, Chet Faker cannot be reduced to a bunch of well groomed…
Rating: “Why procrastinate girl?” Azealia Banks asked herself in her debut single ‘212’ and 3 years later we’re still asking the same question. You can’t forget it wasn’t all down to her, with her label pushing the release back from…
Rating: James Bay is blowing up faster than any artist right now in the UK. Following in the footsteps of similar male singer songwriters like George Ezra and Hozier, Bay – after covering for an absent Lana Del Rey in…
Rating: One of 70s punk rock survivors William Broad (a.k.a Billy Idol) returns with his trademark sneer after an eight year hiatus to release his seventh studio album Kings & Queens Of The Underground. With a career spanning five decades,…
Rating: In today’s music scene, the ability to release an album which offers everything loyal fans love, while taking risks and demonstrating something fresh, is something that’s becoming rarer and rarer and thereby more revered. It may come as a…