Album Reviews

Peter Broderick - It Starts Hear (Bella Union)
New record cements Broderick's growing reputation as an essential musician of his generation.
Posted on Mar 5th, 2012
Jack Flash & Wizard - Progression (Dr Flanagan Music)
Jack Flash & Wizard surface from the underground with a record brimming with ideas.
Posted on Mar 5th, 2012
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet (Real World)
Jazz / electronica adepts Portico Quartet are back with their third, self-titled album.
Posted on Feb 21st, 2012
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52 (Ruby Works)
An alternative take on some of their past songs.
Posted on Feb 21st, 2012
Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)
Glasweigans continue their post rock onslaught.
Posted on Feb 14th, 2012
Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect (Sub Pop)
"It's not enough to live your past through photographs" sighs camera and film enthusiast Denise Nouvion on 'Punctum'. It's an apt lyric given Memoryhouse's beginnings as a collaborative multimedia art project, which saw Evan Abeele's compositions transformed into nostalgic narratives for Nouvion's sepia toned images.
Posted on Feb 6th, 2012
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer (Merge)
One half of brother/sister duo The Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger bravely embarks on her solo career with debut Last Summer.
Posted on Feb 6th, 2012
Naughty By Nature - Anthem Inc (IllTown)
US hip-hop currently rests in arguably the strangest position it has ever found itself in. For the best part of the last decade the majority of the music that charted was the ego-inflated, testosterone soaked club anthems by the likes of 50 Cent, Eminem, Young Jeezy, Lil Jon and numerous other acts following an exaggerated version of the template set in the early-mid nineties by the likes of Notorious B.I.G, Dr.Dre, Wu-Tang and Tupac to name only a handful of the most successful. Skip forward to 2012 and the sonic landscape is an almost unrecognisable one in comparison.
Posted on Jan 30th, 2012
Krate Krusaders - Volume 2: When The Needle Drops (self-release)
Producer led albums can be a fickle beast. Get it right, and you may have classic on your hands; a full unified vision with consistent production levels and beats which showcase a variety of styles, hopefully alongside a diverse mixture of emcees to suitably adorn them. Get it wrong, and you are left with the sonic equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting (or a John Squire if you wish to be more derogatory) and a seemingly random selection of emcees bolted on top to really drive home the mantra of "if you throw enough shit, hopefully some sticks."
Posted on Jan 17th, 2012
Vaporous Light - Vaporous Light (aA)
The self-titled debut album by Manchester trinity Vaporous Light is the perfect antidote for anyone who needs an escape route from the hum drum banalities of daily life.
Posted on Jan 17th, 2012
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