Music

Abstractions of Reality Past and Incredible Feathers, the new record from Binker Golding, is a piece of art. 'I Forgot Santa Monica' — my, my, this is how you open an album, the melodies and grooves on display here are infectious. The…

Let me start the review with this, Freja Frances is a superstar in the making. 'Catching Fire' is a very melancholic opener — it's different. It's immediately clear how soft, but distinctive, Freja's voice is. Musically it consists of a…

Since releasing Branches Untangle back in 2006, Wallis Bird has established herself as a vital voice in Irish music. On top of this, she's a raucous live act. Now, with five albums and a big pile of awards behind her, she feels it's time to…

"Did you know that Ted Bundy's first dog was a collie named Lassie?" — Patrick Bateman Do psychopaths have the best taste in music? Who knows, but it certainly seems the case when it comes to the movie adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991…

Let's say you want to make a breakout record, look no further than this album. It's hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Slipknot was released. If you're a Slipknot fan, you'll instantly recognise '742617000027', a frequent intro piece…

Light The Way have returned with Dad Gang. This new EP follows on from last year's full-length debut False Memory Syndrome. The group also released two more EPs back in 2017 — Dude, Lame and Grace. Pretty prolific for their short…

Versatile’s debasement of hip-hop should have firebombed the project a long time ago. Their writing is preposterous – a Gatling gun delivery of god-awful one-liners punctuated by moments of extreme racism and misogyny. These attempted jokes…

"I'm not Grace. That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever." — Jeff Buckley 25 years after the release of Grace it remains a modern…

Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz have finally returned with Ghosts to Ancestors. Anders, a singer-songwriter, has long been in partnership with collaborator O’Bitz, and this release follows their previous work on Of All These Things. The concept…

2019 marks fifty years since Woodstock, the height of counterculture. While we celebrate the anniversary of that hippie dream, it's also a reminder of the cloud of darkness that settled over that very movement. A time when the hills of Los…