Review: DJ Khaled – Major Key (Epic Records)
Eamonn Kelly reviews Major Key, DJ Khaled's latest album. *jetski noises*
Review: The Avalanches – Wildflower (XL Recordings)
"It is an audaciously cinematic soundtrack fitting nothing in particular; but its sweeping synaesthetic kaleidoscopes can crop up your deepest, unrealest teenage dream-memories." Harry Manson reviews Wildflower, The Avalanches' first…
Review: Swans – The Glowing Man (Young God)
"It’s here, this is it, the grand finale, the last hurrah for Michael Gira and the gang, the swansong of it all (pun intended), and it couldn’t possibly get better…
Review: Drake – Views from the 6 (Young Money Entertainment)
"Whilst a handful of these tracks are susceptible to instant-skipping and the release will hardly thrill bandwagon fans of ‘Jumpman’ or ‘Hotline Bling’, it’s an obvious must for fans of…
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…
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…