LIVE REVIEW: LITTLE MAY (AMPIFIER CAPITOL)
When self-proclaimed “dork” Field announced the remaining two songs there was a collective sigh of pain from the crowd - if Little May had announced they were going to continue…
Review: Weezer – The White Album (Crush Music)
"In this track Weezer are caricatures of a group of dads sitting in a room with a whiteboard brainstorming what the kids are into these days." Eamonn Kelly reviews.
Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
"In finally cleaning up and colourising their previously dry sepia sound, the instrumental sounds and cues occasionally become so directly referential to very particular music that it starts feeling like…
Review: Deakin – Sleep Cycle (My Animal Home)
"Listening to this album, you might get a sense of Deakin as a pathological procrastinator, or manic-depressive, or else afflicted by some other variety of creative paralysis to have spent…
A Moment In Time: Words with Chris Wheeldon
With one night to go before RTR.FM’s A Moment In Time. Pelican spoke to RTR Operations, Events and Volunteer Manager Chris Wheeldon about what to expect at the unique event.…
Review: Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp Records)
Brian Eno has managed to craft a sophisticated, but still extremely enjoyable album. It’s probably not great music to work out to, though. Hugh Hutchison reviews.
REVIEW: JAMES BLAKE – THE COLOUR IN ANYTHING (POLYDOR)
The tone of Colour is much more warm and romantic than the introspective Overgrown, with plenty of songs referencing relationships and affection as opposed to Blake’s own experiences as a…
Review: Beyoncé – Lemonade (Columbia)
The album is a brutally honest look into Beyoncé’s womanhood, her blackness and the intersection between the two. It is quite arguably her magnum opus; a career defining work of…
“Was I What You Wanted Me To Be?”: Prince (1958-2016)
Last Thursday, 2016 sounded a death knell which for countless individuals worldwide, devastated to the point of disbelief. The world is poorer without the supremely talented, sly, shy, god-like human…
BORIS WITH MERZBOW – GENSHO (RELAPSE)
At once brutally punishing and breathtakingly beautiful, Gensho is incredibly listenable, provided that the listener is prepared to work and suffer for the art. Eamonn Kelly reviews.