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…
Musings from (Relative) Sobriety
‘Hey, why aren’t you drinking tonight?’ It’s the usual story for a Saturday night- out the back of my friend’s house, lingering around the haphazardly constructed beer pong table and…
SIA – This Is Acting (Inertia / Monkey Puzzle / RCA)
This is Acting probably seemed like a great idea on paper - Sia taking back songs that she’s written for others, and making them her own. But there is absolutely…
St LUCIA – MATTER (COLUMBIA RECORDS)
Hold on tight to your lycra and perms, kids because Synthpop is back. St Lucia's latest album 'Matter' takes the campiness and nostalgia of the 80s to the nth degree.
Pelican’s Albums of the Year
It’s not quite the end of the year, but it is the end of the Pelican year, so I thought I would get Peli’s music writer community to give us…
Muse – Drones (Warner Bros/Helium-3)
Everyone’s favourite space rockers are back, this time treading unchartered waters. Muse’s Drones is a concept album, in which a protagonist falls out of love and becomes a killing machine…
Everything Everything- Get to Heaven (Sony RCA)
Of all the possible indie-rock bands to tackle the thematic content of a world gone wrong, British four piece Everything Everything would have to be one of the most well-equipped.…
SpaceManAntics – Katzenjammer/Don’t Be The Last (Independent)
When you are meant to review an single by a band called SpaceManAntics, its hard to take their music seriously. Good thing that this small band out of Freo seem…
SELLING SIA: Pop’s musical superwomen
Sex, body and appearance sells. This is true now more than ever within the music industry, generally renowned for a constant pushing of image and appearance as a way to…