Challenging, confrontational, and impossible to ignore, this is a record that is as much a piece of Steve Albini’s legacy as ...

New Zealand singer-songwriter’s fourth album sees hushed intimacy sit alongside an expansion in sound and greater sophistication ...

Until recently Olly Alexander has been the frontman of Years & Years, which started life as a distinctive synth-pop outfit ...

When Heartworms first appeared, Jojo Orme was being described as decidedly “post-punk”. Looking back at those recordings, and ...

A testament to artistic ambition, the five-piece’s experimental third effort reveals more of itself with each enchanting ...

You can see why he might be ready to retire The Weeknd moniker altogether. If this is The Weeknd’s last album, it’s a shame.

A companion piece to Close, 37 years on, this family affair is a blend of youth and experience that showcases a voice that ...

The new year’s sparkle has often run flat, like a drink left on the windowsill and discovered weeks later – with many ideas ...

Landfill is a curious title for Young Knives‘ sixth album. The duo came to prominence in that strange time in the early 2000s, just before Arctic Monkeys arrived on the scene, and was later denigrated ...

But beyond the whispers of nepotism, the real issue with Inhaler is far simpler: the music, despite their Number 1 album placing for 2021’s debut effort It Won’t Always Be Like This, is plain average.

A great deal has happened since we last heard from Frànçois Marry and his, er, merry men in 2017. Having ventured out on his own (as Frànçois Atlas, with Fleurs du Mal in 2018), he relocated from ...

An intoxicating mix of folk and free jazz on the Vermont native’s 10th album finds him creating something very much on his own terms It’s fair to say that folk music is steeped in Sam Amidon‘s blood.