Archive for Category: "Review"
Album Review: Two Hours Traffic – Foolish Blood
Two Hours Traffic have undoubtedly produced a solid, pop record, but one that, sadly, is no more than just that
Live Review: Parklife Festival 2013 – Heaton Park, Manchester
With an expanded line-up and new location it will undoubtedly continue to go from strength to strength in the coming years
Album Revew: Public Service Broadcasting – Inform-Educate-Entertain
PSB take sampling to another level, adding on the one hand the jazz-infused drums of Wrigglesworth, and on the other an intricate net of banjo, guitars and electronic instruments.
Album Review: Beady Eye – BE
It is a bold move and an unprecedented one; this might be the first Gallagher-related release where the act has been nudged out its zone of comfort.
Album Review: These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
It takes the listener places he has never been before, and produces deep-seated reactions throughout. It is entirely new and exciting. Field in Reeds is a complete success on all levels
Live Review: Ghostpoet – Gorilla, Manchester
The expanded line up of synths, drums and female backing vocals free his tracks from the limits of bedroom production and create a more refined sense of dread.
Live Review: The 1975 – Heaven, London
It’s been a masterful performance, and one that will sound fantastic when booming around the country’s arenas, which is surely where it will take them
Album Review: Big Deal – June Gloom
Big Deal take the intricate tsunami of lo-fi metallic guitar fuzz to another level, collapsing into it, in order to find refuge behind that unfathomable wall of sound
Album Review: Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
“QOTSA still have the swagger, but where they once ploughed out into what seemed like virgin territory, it now feels they are treading a well-worn path…”
Album Review: Ms Mr – Secondhand Rapture
Not enough has emerged to be able to pinpoint whether MS MR are the real deal or predictable bullshit. One thing’s for sure though, they’re pretty MOR
Album Review: Crystal Fighters – Cave Rave
Crystal Fighters have one of the top albums of the summer, and possibly even of all 2013, so there can be no doubt that they got it right…even if it did take them almost three years
