The Chicago singer-songwriter Jess Shoman hits a radiant sweet spot on her idiosyncratic, scratchy and bareboned debut album. Jess Shoman’s bedroom folk project as Tenci possesses both a scratchy, junkyard charm and a sepulchral elegance that constructs a hermetic musical universe all of its own. If you like your moonshine folk minimal, hushed and blessed with a voice … [Read more...] about Tenci: My Heart Is an Open Field – Review
Review
Flying Lotus: Flamagra Instrumentals – Review
Flying Lotus, the standard-bearer of sci-fi beats, issues an instrumental edition of last year’s collab-heavy, cosmic hip-hop opera, Flamagra, bringing expressive vision and mastery of mood to centre stage. The LA-based producer and beats wizard Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus first pricked up tastemakers’ ears with woozy trip-hop transmissions on the pioneering Brainfeeder … [Read more...] about Flying Lotus: Flamagra Instrumentals – Review
Amo Amo: Canta EP – Review
Mesmerising voices and an abundance of dreamy sounds will take you on a musical journey when listening through the Canta EP, the latest portfolio of dream pop from Amo Amo. In the currently divided, pandemic stricken, uncertain and crazy world of 2020, everybody needs a little relaxation. The Canta EP from Amo Amo most certainly provides that; it casts the mind away from the … [Read more...] about Amo Amo: Canta EP – Review
SAULT: UNTITLED (Black Is) – Review
There’s a lot of social commentary happening on the enigmatic SAULT record UNTITLED, an energised and timely opus of sprawling funk, soul, gospel and spoken word that addresses the wave of social change engulfing the world today. The shadowy trio known as SAULT sprang up from nowhere in 2019 with not one but two album releases, May’s 5 and 7 in September. On both these LPs … [Read more...] about SAULT: UNTITLED (Black Is) – Review
Black Eyed Peas: Translation – Review
I gotta feeling that the Black Eyed Peas’ new album Translation won’t just meet you half-way but it’ll pump the fun back into music. After two whole years of waiting for their next album, Translation is finally here with a lot of famous features, non-stop beats and the one and only Will-I-Am showing us a good time. There is no stopping this trio from transforming songs into … [Read more...] about Black Eyed Peas: Translation – Review
Neil Young: Homegrown – Album Review
Buried before its scheduled release, Neil Young releases Homegrown, finally gets its place in the sun, some forty-five years after being shelved. The veteran singer-songwriter Neil Young is known for having several complete albums stored in his vaults, and the mythical Homegrown is the latest in a schedule of previously unreleased 70’s albums from his ‘Archives’ series. … [Read more...] about Neil Young: Homegrown – Album Review