Kaiser Chiefs return with their refreshing new album Duck, managing to bring out the best of their classic sound amongst Northern Soul melodies and grooves. Kaiser Chiefs are at that stage in their career where choices for a new record can be as clear cut as trying something completely new or resting on your laurels and sticking to what you know best. They’ve been in the … [Read more...] about Kaiser Chiefs: Duck – Review
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Kit Sebastian: Mantra Moderne – Review
The fertile, cross-pollinating imagination of Kit Sebastian permeates a heady, joyous and oddball debut album that conjures summery sonic flotsam by drawing upon three languages and an array of outre styles. We’re living in unnerving times dominated by base demagoguery and voices of exclusion, intolerance and insularity, which is why Kit Sebastian’s perfectly formed debut … [Read more...] about Kit Sebastian: Mantra Moderne – Review
Review: Daughter of Swords – Dawnbreaker
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig’s sparse collection of softly spoken folk confessionals inhabits the drowsy terrain of late summer nights out on the front porch or around a campfire. Daughter of Swords’ Dawnbreaker is a dusty, bare-bones evocation of the texture of languid, long summer nights, a soundtrack for tranquil moments of solitude and contemplation. At its best, when summoning … [Read more...] about Review: Daughter of Swords – Dawnbreaker
Review: The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth
In which Oklahoma’s frazzled psychedelic explorers raid and hone the more cohesive, melodic and accessible strand of their oeuvre for an album that wields genuine emotional clout. The Flaming Lips’ fifteenth studio album, King’s Mouth, marks two decades since the Oklahoma stoner trio’s leap into the big time with their ecstatically received The Soft Bulletin opus, a record … [Read more...] about Review: The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth
CW Allen: The Dream Baby 2 – Review
Cleveland native CW Allen returns with new EP The Dream Baby 2, sticking with hard-hitting and personal lyrics based round his life’s recent trials and tribulations. You can always tell when an artist is able to honestly wear their heart on their sleeve. New EP The Dream Baby 2 form CW Allen is one example of this, as the rapper plays out hardships and turmoil from his … [Read more...] about CW Allen: The Dream Baby 2 – Review
Ed Sheeran: No. 6 Collaborations Project – Review
No. 6 Collaborations Project, the first album since 2017’s Divide has, more than anything, subtracted from National Treasure Ed Sheeran’s stellar run of form. When it was announced in March that Ed Sheeran was releasing a new album this summer, it was obviously met with much excitement and anticipation. A follow up to the 2011 EP No. 5 Collaborations Project, No. 6 … [Read more...] about Ed Sheeran: No. 6 Collaborations Project – Review