The Darkness - Last of our Kind
8/10
Wolf Alice - My Love is Cool
10/10 for Wolf Alice
Kathryn Wiliams - Hypoxia
A tour-de force
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
GY!BE's fifth may not be their best but is a fine album none-the-less.
Cinerama - Valentina
Interesting take on a Wedding Present classic
The Permanent Smilers
Classic indie from Norfolk group
Sundowners - Sundowners
As sure as night follows day we need bands like The Sundowners.
Nadine Shah - Fast Food
A veritable smorgasbord of reflection and projection
Hudson Mohawke - Lantern
A bright flame at the forefront of contemporary music
Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?
Hot Chip try new genres but unfortunately don't try anything stratospherically different.
Barbarossa - Imager
A beautiful and sensitive album that is a lot more uplifting than you might first expect
Django Django - Born Under Saturn
Almost certainly a future classic
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You
The sound is woozy and wonky.
The Vaccines - English Graffiti
An album emerges which subverts expectations and turns into something worth caring about.
Palma Violets - Danger in the Club
I really can't see any room for disappointment with this classic grunge album
Pop Will Eat Itself - Anti Nasty League
An album which is striking in its intent.
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Most Important Place In The World
An exceptionally strong album
Du Blonde - Welcome Back To Milk
It's smashing.
Du Blonde // Welcome Back To Milk
Du Blonde: an evolution
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat // The Most Important Place In The World
Wells & Moffat deliver their second classic album.
Swervedriver // I Wasn't Born To Lose You
90s shoegazers return with a decent album that can show more contemporary nu-gazers and dream poppers a thing or two.
Django Django - Born Under Saturn
Django Django storm back with an early contender for album of the year.
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
A truly accomplished album.
Portico - Living Fields
A consistent, blissful listen
BBC Introducing Presents...Vol 1
There are strokes of genius scattered across this collection.
I Am Kloot - Hold Back The Night
Banging job.
Drenge - Undertow
I think I've found my album of the year already.
Gallows - Desolation Sounds
Thirty six minutes of outright bloody menace.
Amber Run - 5 AM
An ambitious album of pretty average songs.
East India Youth - Culture of Volume
Undeniably intriguing.
The Boy With Two Heads - The Good Consumer EP
80's desert soundscapes with electronic rumblings
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Both timeless and absolutely current.
Nai Harvest - Hairball
Next time out, a bit of variety wouldn’t go amiss.
Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
Likeable if unexceptional.
Stornoway - Bonxie
This is indie-folk for the Waitrose generation.
The Staves - If I Was
Exquisitely sung indie folk harmonies with added new brainpower
Duke Special - Look Out Machines
This is altogether more personal, dreamlike and surprising.
Flowers - Do what you want to, it's what you should do
Pick Flowers- it’s what you should do!
Addison's Uncle - I'd Like To Tell A Story
A fine album from another decent local band that promises much.
Father John Mistry - I Love You Honeybear
This has the rock press in raptures. I don’t get it.
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