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ALBUM: Beach House ‘Depression Cherry’

Rating: Depression Cherry is the fifth full-length album from established alternative Baltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally – aka Beach House. The pair state that “Depression Cherry is a colour, a place, a feeling, an energy” – something which is…

INTERVIEW: Pretty Vicious

Injecting a clamor and vigor of punk way beyond their teenage years into indie-rock, are Welsh four-piece Pretty Vicious. As a fast rising band of 2015, Gigslutz chat to the boys on their growing recognition, signing to a major label,…

The Rest Of: Suede

For a start, Suede are one of the only bands that can open a set with a B-side and have every single person in the crowd singing along. ‘Animal Nitrate’, ‘Trash’, ‘The Beautiful Ones’ all spring to mind when you…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH: Paris Angels

It’s been almost 25 years since Manchester’s Paris Angels released their seminal track ‘Perfume’. Following the release of their debut album ‘Sundew’ the band split in 1992 after disputes with their label Virgin EMI and their “long lost” follow up…

ALBUM: Spector ‘Moth Boys’

Rating: 2012: With the heavily patriotic backdrop of the imminent Olympic Games, Swim Deep released a grungy, homebodied video for an anthem of the short lived B-TOWN scene, ‘King City’. A few months later, DIIV presented Oshin; forty minutes and…

Blur vs Oasis: 20 Years On

A comparable set to the Blur vs Oasis rivalry of the mid-nineties is not likely to happen again in our lifetime. For those that remember it – and it is with trepidation that I face up to the fact that a modern-day…

ALBUM: Dr Dre ‘Compton’

Rating: Ever since the rumour mill was set in motion that the Dr would be walking the music wards again, I have been patiently waiting for this album. The musical landscape has changed since Dr. Dre‘s last release, 16 years ago,…

ALBUM: Mac DeMarco ‘Another One’

Rating: Almost a year to the date of his last LP, Salad Days, we’re graced with yet another offering from Mac DeMarco. Another One also comes just a month after 9-track instrumental album Some Other Ones; despite Mac’s bum-chic appearance and…

THE REST OF: Radiohead

One of the true anomalies of British music in the 1990s, Radiohead were and continue to be a musical chameleon, constantly morphing sonically and defying boundaries set by their peers. As the era of Britpop chewed and spat out a…