Category: Music reviews
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Album Review: The Dare – What’s Wrong With New York
The debut from a fitting poster boy for the Indie Sleaze Revival; an unconvincing and annoying retread
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Album Review: The Heavy Heavy – One of a Kind
A review of the debut album from The Heavy Heavy. A tribute to psych-pop classics, that’s a little too in thrall to its influences.
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Getting into…Half Man Half Biscuit: Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral
The latest edition of the Getting into series looks at Half Man Half Biscuit’s 7th album, 1998’s Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral.
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Hip-Hop Highlights: Summer 2024
JPEGMAFIA I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU After Scaring The Hoes with Danny Brown last year, one of modern rap’s premier experimentalists returns with perhaps his most accessible album to date. Now, he’s hardly gone and made a pop-rap album, there’s still all the hallmarks of his frenzied production style, but the chaos is…
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Album Review: Bashy – Being Poor is Expensive
Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain
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Album Review: Joey Valence & Brae – NO HANDS
Beasties style punk-rap brought up-to-date for the 2020’s
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Album Review: Childish Gambino – Bando Stone and The New World
Confusing, messy, and occasionally very good. We know by now that Donald Glover isn’t the type to stick to just one lane, but maybe 17 lanes all at once is a bad idea
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Album Review: KNEECAP – Fine Art
Punk spirit and Irish roots fuel a unique new strand of regional rap
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Album Review: JPEGMAFIA – I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
It’s JPEGMAFIA as we think we know him; wild and confusing, but with maybe just a little more clarity emerging After Scaring The Hoes with Danny Brown last year, one of modern rap’s premier experimentalists returns with perhaps his most accessible album to date. Now, he’s hardly gone and made a pop-rap album, there’s still…
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Indie-ish Roundup: Summer 2024
A roundup of the best summer releases from the indie world. Featuring The Dream Machine, Fontaines D.C., Jack White, SOFT PLAY, and much more.
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