Audio Review: Various Artists – Quare Groove Vol. 1
The first archival release from Dublin’s All City Records, the compilation offers a glimpse into independent Irish club music from the 70s and 80s.
Audio Review: Little Movies – The Little Movies Long Play
The duo conjure a universe of warbling, lo-fi electronics reminiscent of early electronic experimentations and b-movie film scores
Audio Review: Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
For Franz Ferdinand, middle age has brought with it an expansion in sonic scope to mirror any widening of waistbands.
Audio Review: The Go Team – Semicircle
An infectiously fun record to lead us into the warmth of spring.
Audio Review: Miguel – War & Leisure
LA’s sexiest son returns with an album of carefully curated makeout music, now with added political undertones.
Tune-Yards – i can feel you creep into my private life
The first stirrings of indie music’s reaction, in album form, to Donald Trump’s election victory
Audio Review: Björk – Utopia
Musically, there is a spirited softness and sentimentality running throughout the seventy-one minutes of immersive electronic melodies.
Audio Review: Lindstrøm – It’s Alright Between Us As It Us
Something of a tonic for the constant caustic abrasion of having your eyes and ears open in 2017.
Audio Review: Cults – Offering
Cults explore an anthemic, synth-bathed approach that breathes new life into their bright, melodic ballads
Audio Review: Drake – Views
The feeling it gives off is that of a diary written by a man whose day job is rapping, who comes home after a long day's work, kicks off his…