Rating: Born In Echoes is the eighth studio album from Manchester electronic dance music duo The Chemical Brothers. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons return with eleven more “big beats” on their latest record – some of which they recently played…
A lot has changed for Future Islands since playing British Summer Time last year. Their synthy-Springsteen anthems were designed for huge crowds like the one that gather early at Hyde Park (5.30pm), who now know the words to ‘Seasons (Waiting…
Rating: By name and by nature, Bestival has become one of the UK’s most loved festivals, and closed 2014’s season in its now renowned style, where castaways and natives joined forces to create the ultimate desert island disco. With huge…
Festivals belong in fields, or so I once thought. “Just 20,000 people standing in a field” sang Jarvis sardonically – written, mind, before Pulp’s seminal Glastonbury performance in 1995. All you need to accurately recreate the typical festival experience is…
The Singles Reviews give the Gigslutz writers an opportunity to listen to songs that wouldn’t usually pop up on their iPod, no matter how many times they shuffled. Sometimes they’re pleasantly surprised by a track by an artist they’d usually…
Following on from last year’s tenth birthday celebrations, Bestival returns next week for another weekend of the biggest bands, the best DJs sets and the most bizarre things you’ll ever see at a festival. Rob and Josie Da Bank better…
Rating: In early 2012, ruminations ran rampant in music circles that Beck was to return later in the year with his first album for four years. By late 2012 we learned that this “album” was in fact a book of…
Rating: “I’m happy to see her making records, I just feel like music needs her. It needs someone doing what she’s doing. She’s got a special voice, as a writer, and then as a musician. She’s this great combination of…
Musical chameleon Beck Hansen has returned with a new album, a companion piece to a much cherished earlier work; however, those of you longing for a return to the lo-fi growl of Mellow Gold (Slacker Beck) or an heir to the experimental…