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  Album Review: Garbage, Not Your Kind Of People

  10 May 2012

  Although seven years have elapsed since Garbage last released an album, it appears that musically, not too much has changed.

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  Album review: Beach House, Bloom

  09 May 2012

  While it doesn’t hang together quite as perfectly as Teen Dream, Bloom is just as magic and possibly even more interesting.

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  Review: Lisa Mitchell, Spiritus

  08 May 2012

  The blindingly bright synth notes that ring in Spiritus suggest that things are going to be markedly different the second time around.

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  Album review: The Dandy Warhols, This Machine

  01 May 2012

  This is a fun listen, if not a classic, and possibly bodes well for a proper return to form.

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  Album review: Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light

  30 April 2012

  It’s impossible to divorce Spiritualized’s seventh record from the circumstances in which it was made. Frontman Jason Pierce was suffering from a degenerative liver disease and began a course of experimental medication, which played havoc with his wellbeing and mental state.

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  Album Review: Hands Like Houses, Ground Dweller

  19 April 2012

  It’s not just its weaving of The Getaway Plan’s braised delivery, nor the lyrical aptitude of Chiodos and Emarosa, it’s the heavier concentration on samples, keys, and galloping drums that prove the band are completely unafraid to denounce their kindred predecessors.

• Album review: Gin Wigmore, Gravel and Wine

  16 April 2012

  The New Zealand singer’s sophomore album Gravel and Wine is just that - like Wigmore swallowed grit and it turned to gold.

• Album review: Fun. Some Nights

  10 April 2012

  There's a really lovely EP in here somewhere – buried in naff, self-congratulatory anthems for people who think hedonism is getting drunk on a Tuesday and despair is being hungover on a Wednesday.

• Album Review: The Used, Vulnerable

  04 April 2012

  Lyrically it’s missing the rawness from the promised self-titled leanings but instrumental aptitude and the genuine excitement of actually listening to new material from The Used overslaugh most disappointing aspects.

• Album Review: Madonna, MDNA

  30 March 2012

  MDNA is no Adele break-up album, it’s one of cold-blooded revenge, a chance for Madonna to lash out at people who have isolated her and prove to them that she has still got a taste, albeit a sour one, of the flair she showcased back in the days of Like a Virgin.

• Album review: The Shins, Port of Morrow

  27 March 2012

  The path between consistency and evolution is a precarious one, but The Shins walk it with characteristically unassuming grace.

• Album Review: Jess Porter, The Surrealist

  23 March 2012

  Exploration, inevitable love and the emotional hurdles leapt over and stumbled upon arise frequently throughout Jess Porter’s debut album The Surrealist. The cyclic collection of ten self-written and self-produced songs instigates a sense of excitement about the unknown, dawning from the very first tracks.

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