Category: Review
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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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GIG REVIEW: Yuck @ Broadcast
Putting on a performance that went down better than the price of a vodka mix on a Saturday night, shoegaze Londoners Yuck traversed any pitfalls that comes with playing in such an intimate venue. Glasgow’s Broadcast offers very little moving space as the band members practically have the audience breathing down their necks. Thankfully, any…
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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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ALBUM REVIEW: Skepta – Konnichiwa
Managing to stand strong after critics called Grime’s second wind a passing fad, Skepta has proved everyone wrong on his fourth LP, solidifying himself and the genre as a cornerstone of British music. “We ain’t seen nuttin’ like this happen before. Who’s seen the country flip on its head like this, fam?” says fellow grime…
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TRACK REVIEW: Soul Of Bass – Just The Thing
While many of us are able to leave our teenage creations and names behind us (MSN’s destruction has lead to a lot of cringe worthy material disappearing from the face of the planet), Ƶed Dew is not so lucky. Naming his “Internet Indie at its finest” project Soul Of Bass at the age of 14 is…
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RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Hector Bizerk @ West Of The Moon
Scottish hip hop was the focus in Ayr on February 22nd, a sentence I never thought I’d ever have to type in my career as a journalist (first time for everything, eh?). Having supported some genre heavyweights like Wu-Tang Clan and MF DOOM, Hector Bizerk were all set to take The West Of The Moon by…
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TRACK REVIEW: The Vanities – Codeine
The Vanities, hailing from the music haven that is Glasgow, are a garage rock outfit that have hit out with their debut track Codeine, a raw demo that establishes their intentions and will no doubt resonate with fans of The Libertines. https://soundcloud.com/thevanitiesuk/codeine Packing the same luscious rhythm that The Strokes built their foundations on, the track…
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