Album Reviews

The Bones of What You Believe is comfortably one of my favourite albums of all-time.  Not many other records capture that singular sense of a band, one of drama and one of musical enchantment in the way that Bones did. CHVRCHES sophomore album Every Open Eye shows that the spirit of 80s is still alive and well in the 21st century and that they are a dynamic band that can do something different and still pull it off.  It’s not Bones, but in many ways — Read more →

Nero are champions of a dark, electronic sound and are one of the most distinctive acts in British music of recent years.  Between II Worlds is the long-awaited follow-up to their hit album Welcome Reality of 2011, with it being a long four years to wait for a fresh slice of their particular brand of dance music.  It was worth the wait. This album does a great job of evolving slightly beyond what Nero had done before but keeping the familiar tones of old.  It’s — Read more →

Albums might be a dying breed in their traditional sense, but that doesn’t mean that one comes along from nowhere every now and again to knock your cotton socks off – and Pageant Material is one of them. I know what you’re thinking: a country album, really?  Darn tootin’ it’s a country album. This is Kacey Musgraves’ second studio album, after becoming a major star in the Nashville scene with her last one.  This one is where she’ll break through into the modern consciousness though — Read more →

I came across a fantastic description of Knife Party the other day as I was surfing the web and reading about their new, upcoming album.  The discussion was about how their album had been pushed further, to late November now, after being original planned for early October, then late October, then early November.  There were a few Deftones references as people legitimately had never heard of the band, formed by a breakaway duo of Rob Swire & Gareth McGrillen from drum and bass legends Pendulum.  — Read more →

Steve Aoki’s been one of my favourite DJs for a while now.  Since I really got into electronic dance music a few years ago, some of the songs he’s been involved in have been my favourites to listen to – with a playful beat to them as well as some fantastic drops as well. Lately Aoki’s gone off the boil, at least in my regards.  Apart from a tune or two here and there, most of his music has been a little too similar and — Read more →