Category: Music reviews
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Hip-Hop Highlights: May 2024
Album of the month from Vince Staples, plus a round-up of big name releases and underground standouts.
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Indie-ish Roundup: April 2024
Check out the playlist for regular updates with the best new indie-ish tunes from throughout the year. And find out more about April’s highlights below. Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us While there’s been a sense of evolution across their catalogue, Vampire Weekend always sound unmistakably like Vampire Weekend. I think of them as…
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Hip-Hop Highlights: April 2024
Check out the Hip-Hop Highlights playlist, regularly updated with a selection of the best new releases from throughout the year. And read about the April highlights below. Chiedu Oraka Misfit The debut full-length from The Black Yorkshireman, Chiedu Oraka, is part mission statement, part origin story. This is about who he is; just as proud…
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Album Review: The Libertines – All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade
The Libertines offer up their most fully realised vision of Albion, as it changes before their eyes There’s certain bands that are intrinsically linked to particular moments in time, whether that’s culturally or personally. The Libertines are one of them. Perhaps the poster boys for the last big hurrah of the British music press, before…
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Getting into…Half Man Half Biscuit: Voyage to the Bottom of the Road
The latest edition of the Getting into series looks at Half Man Half Biscuit’s 6th album, 1997’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Road.
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Indie-ish Roundup: March 2024
A roundup of the best indie releases from March. Featuring The Rhythm Method, Liam Gallagher, Magana, and more.
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Album Review: The Rhythm Method – Peachy
A relatable ode to belatedly coming-of-age in the tradition of great British pop Five years on from their debut and after almost a decade together, there’s a risk that the London duo of Joey Bradbury and Rowan Martin have gone slightly under-appreciated amongst the ubiquity of the Sprechgesang-style (talk-singing) that has emerged around them. Bradbury’s…
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Album Review: Liam Gallagher & John Squire
There’s glimpses of what they both do best, but this all-star duo can’t cover each others’ flaws I wasn’t going to write this as my previous review of the album’s lead single captures many of my thoughts. But I reconsidered as a derivative retread seems like the most appropriate tribute I could pay to a…
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Hip-Hop Highlights: March 2024
A roundup of hip-hop releases from March. The best albums, big name releases, and underground highlights.
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Getting into…Half Man Half Biscuit: Some Call It Godcore
Edition 6 of Getting into Half Man Half Biscuit looks at 1995’s Some Call It Godcore.
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