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LET’S EAT GRANDMA: the sludge pop duo return with deeply personal album

April 15, 2022

Two Ribbons from Let's Eat Grandma characterises itself as an ode to the transparency of childhood friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth.

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HORACE ANDY: outstanding songs – new and old – make up reggae veteran’s new solo album

April 8, 2022

It might come as a surprise that Horace Andy has not made an album with On-U Sound boss and producer Adrian Sherwood until now. Midnight Rocker ends that wait.

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NIK COLK VOID transports you to dancefloor heaven for BUCKED UP SPACE

April 8, 2022

Much like Wales’ own Kelly Lee Owens, Nik Colk Void started out playing with a bunch of indie-rock also-rans but has since embraced electronics and club culture and in doing so, found her true calling.

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On EP debut, PANIC SHACK make being in a band sound fun, fresh & accessible

April 8, 2022

Panic Shack's enjoyment of being in a band is captured in every note of debut EP Baby Shack: catchy and fun, full and satisfying.

Category: Albums, Reviews Region: South Wales

FATHER JOHN MISTY waltzes through the sounds of the 20th century

April 8, 2022

Chloë And The Next 20th Century is the latest opus from Father John Misty; each track a pastiche of a bygone style - from bossa nova and big band to country and cool jazz.

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WET LEG’s debut album is indie’s quirkiest new stars at their best

April 8, 2022

Recorded in spring 2021, before the world had even been introduced to Wet Leg, the debut album amps up the playfulness of their initial singles and keeps it running.

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WARMDUSCHER dirty up funk rock with AT THE HOTSPOT

April 1, 2022

Warmduscher have upped the malformed funk on their third album, At The Hotspot, produced by Joe Goddard and Al Doyle of Hot Chip.

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Swedish metal legends MESHUGGAH are stronger than ever, 35 years on

April 1, 2022

Formed 35 years ago in Sweden, nobody could have measured the influence Meshuggah would have on metal.

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UNSPOKEN WORDS reveals electro producer MAX COOPER’s creative limits

April 1, 2022

Max Cooper has been playing with his format for so long that this album feels like a perfection of the craft, but an artist of this calibre could branch out a bit more.

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HANNAH PEEL & PARAORCHESTRA craft stunning sounds beyond definition

April 1, 2022

On The Unfolding, northern Irish composer Hannah Peel has created a stunning album of indefinable work in collaboration with the delicately attuned Paraorchestra.

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London punks CROWS underwhelm on BEWARE BELIEVERS

April 1, 2022

There’s a feeling that Crows have pitched up to the postpunk party unfashionably late, their peers having already moved on to more interesting places.

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ALDOUS HARDING crafts Tropicalia tinged grooves on Warm Chris

March 25, 2022

Category: Albums, Reviews Region: South Wales

90s influenced Crash sees CHARLI XCX fizz and wobble

March 25, 2022

She’s always been candid in her love for all things 90s. “My first big obsession was The Spice Girls, but there was also Shampoo, All Saints, Aqua”

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MWWB firing on all cylinders with The Harvest

March 25, 2022

Having scheduled The Harvest for release in March 2021, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (MMWB) instead went on hiatus

Category: Albums, Reviews Region: North Wales

After a 9 year wait PLACEBO deliver much of the same with Never Let Me Go

March 25, 2022

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Shoegaze pioneers LOOP underwhelm on second release of comeback era

March 25, 2022

80s shoegaze pioneers Loop return with the second album of their post-reformation era, Sonancy, which might sound better live than it does on record.

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FRIENDS OF HELL drag us back to metal’s golden era – kicking and screaming

March 18, 2022

With the current metal scene in somewhat of a lull, Friends Of Hell are dragging us back to the golden era of the 70s and 80s.

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SURRENDER is the perfect intro to electro legends SUICIDE

March 18, 2022

Surrender is not a greatest hits or best of, but an essential primer to one of the most uncompromising and influential electronic bands to set foot in or out of New York: Suicide.

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The hotly-tipped SEA GIRLS’ third album is packed with youthful anthems

March 18, 2022

Hailed as 'ones to watch' by the UK music establishment for the last couple of years, Sea Girls release their second studio album, Homesick, full of anthemic indie-pop.

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After 10-year break, MIDLAKE return with an instant classic

March 18, 2022

Reconvening after a 10-year hiatus, Texan quintet Midlake return, rejuvenated on a perfectly paced fifth album, For The Sake of Bethel Woods.

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Like KEITH RICHARDS himself, MAIN OFFENDER stands the test of time as 30-year re-issue

March 18, 2022

During a Stones hiatus in the late 80s, Keith Richards worked on his next solo outing, Main Offender, which - now re-released - doesn't sound at all dated 30 years on.

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THE LAZY EYES: Aussie psychedelics’ album debut is a glorious promise of things to come

March 11, 2022

Sydney four-piece The Lazy Eyes have conjured up a collection of blistering compositions on debut album Songbook.

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LAURA CANNELL wants you to fall in love with the recorder

March 11, 2022

Recorders are back! Or at least they are on Norfolk folk experimentalist Laura Cannell’s Antiphony Of The Trees - an album that truly shows the dexterity and potential of the instrument.

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Genre disrupters HO99O9 put the pedal to the metal on audacious second album

March 11, 2022

“No one sounds like us”, Ho99o9 told Kerrang!’s Mischa Pearlman ahead of the release of Skin, their second LP, and they might have pulled it off.

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LET’S EAT GRANDMA: the sludge pop duo return with deeply personal album

HORACE ANDY: outstanding songs – new and old – make up reggae veteran’s new solo album

NIK COLK VOID transports you to dancefloor heaven for BUCKED UP SPACE

On EP debut, PANIC SHACK make being in a band sound fun, fresh & accessible

FATHER JOHN MISTY waltzes through the sounds of the 20th century

WET LEG’s debut album is indie’s quirkiest new stars at their best

WARMDUSCHER dirty up funk rock with AT THE HOTSPOT

Swedish metal legends MESHUGGAH are stronger than ever, 35 years on

UNSPOKEN WORDS reveals electro producer MAX COOPER’s creative limits

HANNAH PEEL & PARAORCHESTRA craft stunning sounds beyond definition

London punks CROWS underwhelm on BEWARE BELIEVERS

ALDOUS HARDING crafts Tropicalia tinged grooves on Warm Chris

90s influenced Crash sees CHARLI XCX fizz and wobble

MWWB firing on all cylinders with The Harvest

After a 9 year wait PLACEBO deliver much of the same with Never Let Me Go

Shoegaze pioneers LOOP underwhelm on second release of comeback era

FRIENDS OF HELL drag us back to metal’s golden era – kicking and screaming

SURRENDER is the perfect intro to electro legends SUICIDE

The hotly-tipped SEA GIRLS’ third album is packed with youthful anthems

After 10-year break, MIDLAKE return with an instant classic

Like KEITH RICHARDS himself, MAIN OFFENDER stands the test of time as 30-year re-issue

THE LAZY EYES: Aussie psychedelics’ album debut is a glorious promise of things to come

LAURA CANNELL wants you to fall in love with the recorder

Genre disrupters HO99O9 put the pedal to the metal on audacious second album

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