Category: Music roundup
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Indie-ish Roundup: October 2024

Bon Iver, Geordie Greep, The Smile, and more feature in the October indie-ish roundup.
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EP Review: kilonova – Dial Tone

On this debut EP, stark confessional outpourings capture a precocious talent at their most vulnerable.
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Indie-ish Roundup: September 2024

The good and not-so-good from the indie world in September. Featuring MJ Lenderman, The Dare, The Courettes, and more.
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Album Review: Joyce – Voyce

A review of the debut from Joyce; a chaotic kaleidoscope of noise with moments of beauty lurking beneath the squall.
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Album Review: The Courettes – The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes

The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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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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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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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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Album Review: MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks

The much acclaimed new album from MJ Lenderman is good, but much of the hype is centring the wrong things.
