Review

After a three-year break since his last album, Dizzee Rascal releases E3 AF, an exceptionally high quality and well-crafted grime release. With an array of collaborators, samples and styles intertwined with Dizzee’s signature sound, this album allows space for intense grime beats, skippy flows and some personal reflection on fame; as well as asserting that Dizzee possesses … [Read more...] about Dizzee Rascal: E3 AF – Album Review

Murdoc, 2-D, Russel and Noodle aka Gorillaz are back with their latest album and, once again, they do not disappoint. Gorillaz’ appropriately-named seventh album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez incorporates genres from punk rock to trip-hop and almost everything in between, satisfying a wide range of musical tastes. The band have outdone themselves, collaborating … [Read more...] about Gorillaz: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez – Review

Léon, the 27-year-old singer from Sweden, has released her latest album Apart, an emotional record following her experiences falling in and out of love. Sounding like Miley Cyrus before she went full pop-superstar on us, this natural and elegant star shares her talent through a variety of vulnerable and uplifting tracks.  Kicking off the album with Head and Heart On … [Read more...] about Léon: Apart – Album Review

London-based pianist Rick Simpson honours the twentieth anniversary of Radiohead’s landmark album, Kid A, with his own interpretation of the entire disc, reimagining their acclaimed opus through a modernist jazz lens.  The award-winning pianist and composer Rick Simpson is a graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a gilded exponent of contemporary jazz who … [Read more...] about Rick Simpson: Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited – Review

Bruce Springsteen has a recording career spanning a massive 40 years, and he clearly hasn’t lost his touch with Letter To You, his outstanding 20th studio album. Last Autumn, Bruce Springsteen enlisted his longtime backing band, The E Street Band, to record the album, and it was all recorded in 5 days. You can tell this is a reflective album for the artist, with many of the … [Read more...] about Bruce Springsteen: Letter To You – Review

Music on Vinyl reissue The Maytals’ From the Roots, a record of a group transitioning into one of the mainstays of reggae music. When you think of The Maytals, most people these days would put the name ‘Toots’ before it. Before they added Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert’s name at the forefront in the late 70s’ and became the household reggae roots band we all love, they put a lot … [Read more...] about The Maytals: From the Roots – Reissue Review