Album of the Week

The Endless Shimmering isn’t messing about. Right from the off, Northern Irish noise-merchants And So I Watch You From Afar are determined to blast the heads off their listeners with a tougher wedge of sound than anything that appeared on…

Gathering my notes to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything, a satisfied exhale fills the silence in the Library Bar of the Central Hotel. “The Guinness tastes good. It’s good to be home” says Conor Wynne, guitarist with Otherkin, the…

Mac Demarco  This Old Dog Whacky Macky has distilled l’eau Demarco down to quite a marketable product at this point. Fans know and love the antics-prone agent of trippy soft rock, but the boy wonder is hungover and left meandering over…

Perfume Genius  No Shape On his last record, Mike Hadreas was pissed off.  While the first two Perfume Genius LPs consisted of intimate, queer-edged bedroom pop, Too Bright was a full of fed up frustrations and explosive anthems that…

Gorillaz Humanz For Gorillaz, a group long-obsessed with combing through society’s issues and fears, it couldn’t seem like a better time to make a return. Modern culture is at a feverishly-bleak, anxious high, with social media only…

The xx I See You Seemingly out of nowhere, London band The xx burst onto the scene in 2009 with a stone cold classic in their debut album XX. The album garnered universal critical acclaim and went on to win the 2010 Mercury Prize. Their…

I can see this being a very over-excited and potentially nonsensical post. However, it's happening. Thom Yorke, who I think we can all agree, is the best thing in the world ever. Or, at the very least, he's good at music. And surprises. I…

The lovely people are streaming the album, 'The Window and Day', for free before it's released in a few days time. I've listened to it and it's entirely lovely and I know I'll be listening to it again before the day is out. You can listen…