Category: Reviews

On his second full-length release this year alone, Will Dorey’s ever-expanding palette of global grooves crystallises the colourful communion of summer, and acts as a beacon of hope for better days to come.

The French noise specialists’ sophomore LP on FatCat Records is a gripping, paranoid post-punk odyssey, it’s overwhelming gloom a prescient tone for what has been a horrible year.

King Gizz are known for exploring endless new territories in their music, and though the band hark back to their more familiar sound on their sixteenth album, the rampantly prolific psych-rock outfit remain as unpredictable and exciting as ever on their latest offering.

Stripped-back and naive (much like her trademark skeletal costume) Copycat Killer’s re-arrangements lifts Bridgers’ tender laments to even more haunting heights.

A vocal opponent of Latin music’s gentrification, Uchis’ first outright Spanish album reaffirms her oft-praised refusal to be defined by things as pedestrian as genre, seamlessly swerving from slow Latin jazz to psychedelia to R&B with emotive, dignified poise.

The Belarusian synth-pop purveyors’ new album reflects the estrangement felt by a country at war with itself; a cold-wave, industrial daydream, a lost place between perestroika and the Information Age, steeped in the shadows of its past.

On their new EP, the Portland husband and wife duo-turned-band take their fascination with sci-fi, conspiracy theories, cults, and transhumanism to existential levels – it’s mechanic and weird, but that’s absolutely the point.

Kylie’s record-breaking fifteenth (fifteenth?!) album gets the glitterball spinning, inducing some serious mum, or dad, dancing whilst we see out this dreadful year. Sequins and marabou feathers at the ready, we need this.

Vintage calculators, defeat, regret, and ruining a relationship beyond all repair are the dominant concerns of VB’s most recent single, a self-reflective turn that makes the irreverent post-punks feel more relatable than ever.

The doomy new-wave Belarusians became unlikely TikTok heroes earlier this summer, and in our modern world of isolation and curfews, their latest ‘totalitarian disco’ banger makes us want to dance Ian Curtis-like beneath the starry, wintery skies.