Five years ago today, Anderson .Paak dropped the Grammy-nominated Malibu, a neo-soul masterpiece often cited as his best work. I’d be inclined to agree with the consensus: Oxnard felt like slightly bland pandering with its excess of features (although the presence of Q-Tip was much appreciated) and Ventura was a bit closer to what was […]Read More
“Five years, what a surprise,” to quote the man himself in the curtain-raiser from his definitive long-player The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Indeed we’ve all been crying for the last five years, hard to believe half a decade has already flown by since David Bowie’s passing, three days […]Read More
Widely regarded as something of an enigma in Gorillaz’s discography, The Fall was infamously recorded on an iPad mid-tour. The album features the predominant work of bandleader Damon Albarn alone (with a short feature from Bobby Womack and several recorded conversations and radio broadcasts). More than enough criticism has been directed at the record for […]Read More
Whilst they may have faded a bit more into the background these days, from the late ‘00s to the mid ‘10s After The Burial were one of metalcore’s biggest rising stars. Their first two albums Forging A Future Self and Rareform showcased a uniquely brilliant take on a genre that was starting to become a […]Read More
A couple of weeks ago, Kid Cudi released a YouTube video teasing the third instalment of the Man on the Moon trilogy; a trilogy of albums that had commenced with his 2009 debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day. And now, his sophomore effort, the 2010 concept album Man on the Moon […]Read More
Now that dubstep has faded from popular consciousness, it’s perhaps easy to forget just what an impact Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites had upon release ten years ago and the legacy it’s left since. With his second EP, Sonny Moore took dubstep from south London nightclubs to daytime radio and introduced a whole new […]Read More
20th August 1995 is for me one of those where were you? moments. I recall driving back from a day at the beach, listening to the UK Top 40, as the winner of the Battle of Britpop was announced. Blur’s ‘Country House’ pipped Oasis’ ‘Roll With It’ to then coveted number one spot. At the […]Read More
Headlines today look cynically upon Argentina, having swaddled itself in economic crisis in a stagnant trend of overspending dating back seventy years. Coverage has frequently pointed to reckless policy and the acquisition of debt behind its shortcomings. “Argentina seems trapped by its own history,” said Argentine economist Daniel Marx this year. As matters are exacerbated […]Read More
It is hard to imagine how terrifying Black Sabbath must have seemed when they released Paranoid in the autumn of 1970. Nowadays, they are metal royalty but at the time they may as well have sprung up from hell itself. Other rock bands at the time had their rough edges but remained approachable. The Rolling […]Read More
In 2017, Lana Del Rey took to Twitter to cryptically call on her followers to join her in putting a spell on Donald Trump. The move was as unexpected as much as it made complete sense. Known as one of music’s most enigmatic stars, her penchant for hexing was unsurprising. Dipping her toe into American politics, however? A […]Read More
When bands beloved for their youthful disregard for dull convention that dictates that music must sound a certain way — that being off-key is bad, that aspiration should be beyond something to drunkenly yell along to while getting elbowed in a mosh pit — grow up, it can cause friction. When this coincides with their […]Read More
Ten Thousand Fists was the third studio album released on 20 September 2005 by American heavy metal band, Disturbed. This energetic and powerful band burst onto the scene in 2000 with their debut album The Sickness, which won them well-deserved recognition and landed them at number 20 on the Billboard 200 chart. Upon the release […]Read More
There hasn’t been a band so readily embraced and yet so readily critiqued than Scottish synth-pop act CHVRCHES. On the one hand, the band’s innovative mix of 80s synthpop stylings coupled with modern production and genuinely brilliant songwriting has won them legions of fans the world over. The band are also arguably one of the […]Read More
The Pixies are a incredible band with a great discography, however with it's 30th anniversary how does the band's third album 'Bossanova' hold up? Read More
Talking Heads were at the core of New York’s underground punk scene in the mid to late 1970s. The hive of their activity was the legendary Punk venue, CBGB, playing alongside their fellow Punk Rock alumni: Patti Smith, The Ramones, Television and Blondie. But by the end of the ’70s, punk rock had run its […]Read More
