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
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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
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
All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 26th May
Victoria Park’s summer festival, All Points East, returned for another diverse helping of guitar rock, art-pop, jazz and electronica. Victoria Park’s eclectic, two-week blockbuster summer festival, All Points East, opened for its second-year with a varied three-day programme encompassing the hedonism of Primal Scream, the block-rocking beats of The Chemical Brothers, the … [Read more...] about All Points East Festival 2019 Review – Sunday 26th May
Single Review: Emile Sandé – Extraordinary Being
Emile Sandé’s new single Extraordinary Being, a tie-in with Marvel’s X-Men Dark Phoenix, is more ordinary than extraordinary. The Scottish superstar has been quiet in recent years, but her latest single clearly takes inspiration from her collaboration on Chic’s 2018 release It’s About Time. Extraordinary Being isn’t the ballad you would expect from Sande, instead going down a … [Read more...] about Single Review: Emile Sandé – Extraordinary Being
Review: Ash – 94-04: The 7” Singles Box Set
Indie rockers Ash return with a new vinyl box set detailing 20 of their singles on 7” discs from 1994 to 2004. How have Ash been around for 25 years? That’s the conclusion you’re left with when you realise their new vinyl box set starts with first single release Jack Names The Planets from way back in 1994. This was back when Britpop was in full swing, bands were praised for … [Read more...] about Review: Ash – 94-04: The 7” Singles Box Set