Tag: new music
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ALBUM REVIEW: Macklemore + Ryan Lewis – This Unruly Mess I’ve Made
Hip hop chart toppers deliver a divisive release that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang. Just as Kendrick Lamar is the golden child of Hip Hop who can do no wrong in the eyes of many, Macklemore is the polar opposite: a man that receives a lot of flack and whose name…
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EP REVIEW: Fake Boyfriend – Mercy
RELEASE OF THE WEEK Looking at the tags on Fake Boyfriend’s bandcamp will tell you all you need to know about them before diving right into this punk rock rich release: existential crises, heartbreakers, heartbroken, and philly sad girls. On Mercy, their first EP, it’s clear that they’ve hit all these tags quite well, most of all…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Horse Jumper of Love – Horse Jumper of Love
While the mention of horses brings an expectation of fast, strong and majestic, Boston slow rock trio Horse Jumper of Love have done quite the opposite on their self-titled debut. While it may pack the same strength and resilience of a stallion, the band’s songs seem to enjoy wallowing in their dreary, distorted mess of…
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TRACK REVIEW: Rising Pacific – Parts
Founded in November 2013, Falkirk band Rising Pacific have been cited, in typical Scottish fashion, as a “cracking wee three piece band” and one of the best young acts around which is no real surprise considering the material they’ve released so far. Naked, a single released at the tail end of 2015, featured the band channeling their inner…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
An out of nowhere release from Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar results in one of the most enjoyable listens of 2016 2015 belonged to Kendrick Lamar. In a year full of police brutality and heated politics, To Pimp A Butterfly stood out as the jazz drenched perspective of a man from Compton who has witnessed…
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TRACK REVIEW: Modern Baseball – Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind
Pennsylvanian emo, punk rock act Modern Baseball showcase new material from their forthcoming album Back in the 90’s, pop punk was fairly content in delivering jokes about fucking mums, getting drunk and farts, perfectly accompanying any and every party you could ever attend due to its catchiness and simplicity that made it accessible to pretty…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Yung Lean – Warlord
Internet icon, nostalgia enthusiast and rapper Yung Lean releases his second LP that takes baby steps towards progression. Warlord by Yung Lean | Release Date: 25th Feb 2016 | Label: Year0001 Ask someone what internet celebrities they know and they’re more than likely to mention your typical…
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Moderat – Reminder EP REVIEW
German electronic act Moderat managed to overcome the ever fatal second album syndrome that infects any band who release a critically acclaimed debut, a triumph in itself. However, when your track record now features two well received LPs, how on earth do you pull it off again? In Moderat’s case they’ve done more of the…
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Dan & Drum-Fixin Up Right TRACK REVIEW
In the world of music, sometimes it’s not just your sound that is important but your own public persona, something that can help change you from being just another white boy with a guitar into something else entirely. Take Mac DeMarco for example, a talented artist whose wacky, odd sense of humour and actions help…
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New Tropics – Morphine TRACK REVIEW
If you were to look at Chichester rock band New Tropics social media, more specifically their photos of broken equipment including a heavily chipped drum and a telecaster with a chunk out of it, you’d probably expect a roguish pack of boys with a very rough sound. Whilst I can’t say much about the former,…
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