Gigslutz contributor Pete Cary takes a close look at one of the albums that helped shape his childhood. Powerless of choice to what was played on the stereo of his parents car growing up, Pete was forced to listen to Talking Heads-Speaking in…
Gigslutz contributor and Features Editor, Katie Muxworthy, takes a look at one of the records that changed the way she looked at music. Exploring the depths of each track, the ill fated life and death of lead singer Ian Curtis…
Rating: Parisian electro swing band Caravan Palace roar into action with their third studio album. They’ve taken The Great Gatsby to larger heights than Baz Luhrman could and mixed it together with the electro synths of the ’80s and ’90s, and…
Rating: Currents does a unique thing: it unpacks ideas at its leisure over the course of 13 tracks while refusing to co-opt the pop sound of any decade that might, or might not, be currently in vogue. And this is…
Rating: With fourth album The Sparrow and the Thief, five-strong Welsh band Rag Foundation have delivered an invigorating breath of fresh folk air that keeps you on your toes with its capacity to stir emotions and hold them in balance….
Although his debut album’s title hints at a more wintery vibe, Sorren Maclean’s record easily translates to a British summer’s day, with its delicate, folky, acoustic tracks that emulate lazy, hazy midsummer. Winter Stay Autumn is the latest release from the…
Rating: Pioneers of the 2tone movement of the ’80s, The Selecter have been voicing the need for equality of all kinds through the perfect medium of their anthemic, uplifting Ska tracks for thirty five years; and now – with a…
They may claim “it’s complicated”, but, according to the colossal debut release from Scotland’s biggest independent band, The LaFontaines – producers of a slick, exciting alternative-hip-hop-classic-rock hybrid – it’s as clear as crystal: this band are the future of music….
Having already released the single ‘That Battle Is Over’ in early May, Oslo’s very own Jenny Hval brings us the latest passage in her musical voyage – Apocalypse, girl, her fifth solo LP. The opening track begins with the use of…
Rating: Jamie xx has been teasing the world with a drip-feed of individual tracks over the last few years, and having fingers in so many pies, it’s no surprise that tracks have been served up here and there as opposed…