Category: Album
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ALBUM REVIEW: Real Friends – The Home Inside My Head
“If you think the band is some revolutionary thing, that’s very flattering, but we don’t try to go out and say we are the new Fall Out Boy or we’re the next Wonder Years” said Real Friends vocalist Dan Lambton in an interview with Rock Sound prior to the release of their debut studio album,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pup – The Dream Is Over
In the same way that it’s near impossible to find a Californian punk act who don’t sing about drugs, so to is difficult to talk about PUP’s sophomore album without falling into a cliche that every review has fell into by addressing this album’s title: after visiting a specialist, frontman Stefan Babcock was bluntly told “the…
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Album Review: Teen Suicide – It’s The Big Joyous Celebration, Lets Stir The Honeypot
Teen Suicide’s Its the Big Joyous Celebration, Lets Stir The Honeypot (their 5th and apparently final album) is a 26 track long, cacophonous bow. It encapsulates some of their key elements, and never loses the intimacy of lo fi that makes the genre, but is subtly different to their other albums; it feels more evolved…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
It has become far too common for bands to talk about a “reinvention” while on the promotional trail before a new record is released, only for them to have repeated themselves with a few minor tweaks, or to have done the exact opposite and to have thrown away what their fans loved about their previous…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
A well-documented obstacle in the music industry is the dreaded second-album and after listening to any great debut album, it is often hard to wonder anything other than if it can be matched, never mind improved on. However for me, there is an even greater pressure on a band’s third album, the album that will…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
Heart and Soul drives this Gospel Rap encrusted gem “Blessings keep falling on my lap” Chance The Rapper wistfully chimes and he couldn’t put it any better on his first proper foyer into mainstream territory. Acid Rap blew up and got him a shit-load of attention which he hasn’t let go to waste with Coloring Book, a bombastic…
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ALBUM REVIEW: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a dreamy band. Not in the way that your mum thought Johnny Depp was dreamy in A Nightmare On Elm Street, but also kind of exactly like that. The Melbourne born band have been pulling absolute crackers of albums out their collective arse regularly since 2012, with the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Crystal Shipsss – Holly
Starting off as a solo project, Dane Jacob Faurholt has managed to recruit some budding new members over the years to create Crystal Shipsss, a band sticking their fingers in many pies and it’s debatable whether or not it’s too many. The act were brimming with potential but fell short on it whenever their self…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
Dwelling into what made your glory days so, well, glorious can be a dangerous task: pull it off and fans will see you as a perfectionist, fail and others will assume you’ve ran out of ideas. Thankfully it’s the former for Sacramento hip hop, rock act Death Grips, a band whose delivery of music has been…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Band Adulthood – a term coined in an interview in the back catalogues of music aficionados Pitchfork. In layman’s terms, a band’s adulthood is when they’ll start to release albums that, for the average listener, is passable but for the devotees is another milestone in their favourite band’s discography. This is usually around the time…
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