Review

Tommy Newport releases latest EP Ultra Mango, a vibrant release exploring tender themes such as youth and inner-consciousness.  Tommy Newport’s sound world and artistic voice is carved out through fragmented and vivid imagery, whose ambiguity and mystery emits a certain youthful charm. He states that this EP is a result of a considerable amount of learning and naivety. … [Read more...] about Tommy Newport: Ultra Mango – Review

Unapologetically fierce yet at the same time candid and honest, Lucy Spraggan’s genre-blending sixth album Choices is the feel-good record we’ve all been waiting for. When we interviewed Lucy about this album back in November, she described it as ‘a diary of the last couple of years’ – years that include a divorce, getting sober, and an impressive physical transformation, so … [Read more...] about Lucy Spraggan: Choices – Review

Shafts of light peer through darkness on Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis’s Lockdown album, Carnage, a recording steeped in both the turmoil of the pandemic and the singer’s classic themes of loss, redemption and apocalypse.  Nick Cave has spoken of how Lockdown has felt oddly familiar; the veteran singer-songwriter is well acquainted with isolation, loss and grief … [Read more...] about Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage – Review

The operatically trained Brooklyn native Sarah Kinlaw delivers dreamy, slow-burn art-pop on her brooding debut. The rise to fame of the New York singer-songwriter Sarah Kinlaw has been unspectacular and steady, encompassing stints as a dancer, visual artist, choreographer and composer as well as a series of bleeding-edge collaborations with Blood Orange, Caroline Polacheck, … [Read more...] about Kinlaw: The Tipping Scale – Review

Nicholas Gunn releases new album Sound Condition, an ambitious and varied piece of work that encompasses an electronically driven ambient world. Electronic artist and producer Nicholas Gunn manages to produce a perfect blend of beats, build-ups and perspectives on new album, Sound Condition. With a settled flow of ambient sounds and meandering, playful beats that ebb and … [Read more...] about Nicholas Gunn: Sound Condition – Review

Patrick Ames returns with a whimsical, bluesy sound on the affectionate new single, Rubber & Glue. It’s pretty apparent in this time and age that people are looking for a bit of fun. There’s been a lot of heavy-heartedness lately, and with good reason, but sometimes you just want something a bit familiar, a bit warm and light. That’s exactly what Patrick Ames provides … [Read more...] about Patrick Ames: Rubber & Glue – Single Review