Review

Former Thee Oh Sees keyboardist and singer Brigid Dawson steps out from her perennial role of nifty team player to fashion one of 2020’s majestic, smouldering and shape-shifting releases. Back in 2017, Brigid Dawson cooked up three lovely tunes of melodic wonder to Memory Of A Cut Off Head, the Forever Changes-inspired album she concocted as OCS with John Dwyer. However, … [Read more...] about Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network: Ballet of Apes – Review

After an enormously successful 2020, Jack Harlow releases his latest album, That’s What They All Say, continuing his winning streak into the last month of the year.  That’s What They All Say shows incredible maturity, depth and understanding of his interactions with others. This is achieved through playful production, immense musicality and blunt lyricism intelligently … [Read more...] about Jack Harlow: That’s What They All Say – Review

Afropunk/Hip Hop artist GNL Zamba unleashes a dizzying mix of ideas and infusions amongst a rap-rock underbelly on The Spear. Describing his recent album as a conversation between Jimi Hendrix, Malcolm X, and Tupac amongst others is a big statement by GNL Zamba, but luckily he manages to live up to it. The Spear really is a cocktail of different ideas, but when the artist is … [Read more...] about GNL Zamba: The Spear – Album Review

Antipodean crate-diggers and baroque collagists The Avalanches harness the power of collaboration in conjuring 2020’s finest sunbeam psychedelia.  Melbourne’s premier exponents of ‘plunderphonic pop’, The Avalanches, laboured for sixteen years to produce a sequel to their dazzling patchwork of samples, Since I Left You; when the equally blissful Wildflower finally arrived, … [Read more...] about The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You – Review

Meditative singer-songwriter and post-dubstep poster boy James Blake rounds off the year with a stripped-down EP of covers of classic songs, some of which were debuted during his Lockdown request sessions.  James Blake has kept himself busy during this tumultuous year by taking requests from fans for cover versions of other artists’ material and performing them on social … [Read more...] about James Blake: Covers EP – Review

Taylor Swift surprises the world once again with 9th record, evermore, a ‘sister album’ to her well received folklore. 2020 may have been a tumultuous and anxious year for many, but one positive that has arrived out of the pandemic is the amount of creativity from the music industry. Lockdown albums, special releases, online gigs, and tailored tracks have kept us entertained … [Read more...] about Taylor Swift: evermore – Album Review