The Skints return with new record Swimming Lessons, as the band tailor their reggae-influenced mix of genres and styles into stylised perfection. In this day and age, it can be hard to make any music influenced by reggae that stands out amongst the crowd. It’s such a strong genre with a large and devoted fanbase, and usually only picked up by the mainstream for a while … [Read more...] about Review: The Skints – Swimming Lessons
Review: Skepta – Ignorance is Bliss
Skepta is back with Ignorance is Bliss, but has becoming Grime royalty mellowed the now 36-year-old rapper? After winning 2016’s Mercury Prize with his previous album Konnichiwa, Skepta’s music career seems to have been put on the back-burner. Collaborating with Nike, as well as launching his own fashion line, it could’ve been perceived that fashion was now the Tottenham … [Read more...] about Review: Skepta – Ignorance is Bliss
Review: Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology
The London space cadets Vanishing Twin present a glorious, sci-fi-tinged album to fill the Broadcast-shaped hole in our affections that is both infectious and oblique. Utopias, lost futures and intergalactic exploration permeate the dazzling second long-player from London-based psych-electronica troupe Vanishing Twin, an outfit whose freewheeling, plate-spinning sonic approach … [Read more...] about Review: Vanishing Twin – The Age of Immunology
All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 2nd June
All Points East festival closes in style for another year amidst plenty of highlights, strong performances and an electric atmosphere. Last weekend at Hackney’s Victoria Park, the second year’s instalment of All Points East – a cavalcade of multifarious entertainment and revelry stretching over a ten day period – closed with a typically enchanting line-up operating on the … [Read more...] about All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 2nd June
Review: Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks
Brian Eno’s seminal record Apollo undergoes a remastering and an additional 11 tracks in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Brian Eno’s music almost seems too fitting for a documentary about the Apollo 11 mission. In 1983 his record Apollo was used as the soundtrack for For All Mankind by Al Reinhart, capturing the essence of a moon landing … [Read more...] about Review: Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks
Pixies To Release Seventh Studio Album With Special Vinyl Edition
Rock stalwarts Pixies are gearing up to release their new record Beneath The Eerie, and also including a deluxe double vinyl edition thrown into the mix. Being released in September 2019, their new record entitled Beneath The Eyrie has recently been preceded by new track On Graveyard Hill, which, if this is anything to go by, means we’ve got more of that classic Pixies sound … [Read more...] about Pixies To Release Seventh Studio Album With Special Vinyl Edition