Blackstarkids CYBERKISS* – A Digital Landscape of Constructed Nostalgia?
Blackstarkids, signed under the same label as Beabadoobee and Glass Animals, offer their listener many different styles on CYBERKISS*. The album takes you on a journey without subscribing to any…
Thee Sacred Souls debut album blends classic soul with a modern twist 
In late August, San Diego trio Thee Sacred Souls released their much anticipated self-titled ‘LP’ and it has become an earworm for soul fans the world over. Produced by Daptone…
Explaining the inexplicable: Loveless, in retrospect
What did Brian Eno mean when he described My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless as “a new standard for pop?” Pop had always been what it was, popular, because of its universality;…
Declan McKenna delivers the perfect indie-rock the world needs
Things have been pretty bad for a while now, and apparently both the government and the university are hell bent on making them even worse. So, it is a good…
Cults dazzle on their new album Host
Rating: 5 out of 5 We are all very much aware that 2020 so far has been nine months packed with the unexpected, and as Cults releases their fifth album…
Fenne Lily produces an emotionally raw record in quarantine
Rating: 3 out of 5 BREACH is the latest offering from English singer-songwriter Fenne Lily, a record of cool and measured melancholy. Two years on from her debut On Hold,…
Perspective: Riz Ahmed makes politics a personal story
The Long Goodbye is a masterpiece of an album, combining themes of identity, empire and the desire for belonging in a divided Britain. Ahmed takes the feelings of the diaspora…
Gengahr’s ‘Sanctuary’ toes the line between intimacy and inconsistency
Three stars. Gengahr are synonymous with the intersection between indie and psychedelic rock; comparable to Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s little brother—dark, romantic, and framed by a sense of youthful angst. While…