Review

Celebrity Warship Culture stretch their alt-rock, experimental post-punk muscles on their new album, Recreational Everything.   Vancouver-based post-punk/experimental rock group Celebrity Warship Culture can really pull together a bunch of sounds and genres in interesting ways. On new album Recreational Everything, they manage to draw influences from early 90s alt-rock … [Read more...] about Celebrity Warship Culture: Recreational Everything – Review

Jelly Crystal’s latest record, Freak Show, feels like falling down the rabbit hole to Wonderland.  Stockholm-based artist Filip Johnson, better known as the left-field, wide-eyed wonder Jelly Crystal, describes his latest record, Freak Show, as ‘slow and tedious’ – ‘it might sound boring but it’s just like me.’ And to some extent, I can concur. … [Read more...] about Jelly Crystal: Freak Show – Review

In which the Brighton duo dig deep and mine the rich seam of lavish soundtrack and library music from the 1960s and 1970s to thrillingly louche and arresting effect.  The Globeflower Masters Vol.1’is both a labour of love and a homage to a specific, gilded age of pop. Brighton musicians Glenn Fallows and Mark Treffel’s rapturous LP is an embodiment of a certain … [Read more...] about Glenn Fallows and Mark Treffel: The Globeflower Masters Vol.1

The Dead Deads juxtapose sleek vocals with fierce energy in their new album Tell Your Girls It’s Alright. If there ever were a modern band that could get away with sounding old-school without seeming dated, it’s The Dead Deads – and what better song to give listeners a taste of what their new record Tell Your Girls It’s Alright is all about than the album opener Sea … [Read more...] about The Dead Deads: Tell Your Girls It’s Alright – Review

With his debut studio album Montero, Lil Nas X proves that he isn’t stuck on the old town road.  Montero Lamar Hill, better known as Lil Nas X, has had quite possibly one of the most meteoric rises to fame in the rap industry in the past decade, and it’s all thanks to his incredibly catchy chart-topping single Old Town Road, which got numerous remixes and was the lead … [Read more...] about Lil Nas X: Montero – Album Review

NCT 127’s latest work, Sticker, is a little more muddle than music. You either love it or hate it. NCT 127 can be very divisive. Their music has been likened – by fans and critics alike – to ‘razor noise’ and the kind of clashing and banging that comes from knocking ‘pots and pans’ together – Kitchen Beat, off their Japanese studio album Awaken, quite literally sounds like … [Read more...] about NCT 127: Sticker – Album Review