Category: Reviews

Complex, nuanced, exhibiting influences from The Fall to The Human League, Working Men’s Club’s debut album lives up to the hype. And then some.

Girls, booze, fun, games, jangly hooks and piano keys aplenty, The Nude Party’s sophomore album is a laugh-riot tribute to sounds of the 70s.

John Dwyer’s latest album sees a welcome return to the rapid, breakneck garage rock we’ve grown accustomed to over the past two decades, and shows no signs of letting up just yet.

A close-to-home reflection on youth and ageing, American Head sees psychedelic mainstays Flaming Lips grounded in introspection, and it holds up against any of their previous astral canon.

Despite its pre-packaged rallying cries and at times falling short on political inspiration, the third LP from IDLES is still just as loud and angry as the times demand.

The Queens-native cult of personality is back, with an album that in his own words is “ANOTHER BRIGHT THREAD WOVEN INTO THE TEXTURE OF THE COSMOS”. Undoubtedly at his best when fully leaning into his persona, is there substance beyond Bronson’s style?

Is it possible to write something ironically and for it still to feel emotionally affecting? George van den Broek aka Yellow Days remains a musical wunderkind, yet ‘The Curse’ is emblematic of his new record’s wider shortcomings.

Unfortuately, ‘Worth it’ feels like backwards momentum and an aesthetic wrong turn for a seriously talented songwriter.

With the backing of Denzel Curry, Tricky, and Sampa the Great, the Melbourne duo continue their trip-hop trajectory into the unknown and unexpected, with astral and anthemic results.

King’s Disease sees Nas at the middling age of forty-six years old, who shines with the same poetic attention to detail, musicality and astute politics that made the man famous back in the day. Make no mistake, this is the most profound piece of work the New York City icon has produced in a long time.