Foxtrott – ‘A Taller Us’ Album
by Tom Roden
Electropop majesty driven by meaningful lyrics and soulful deliveries.
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: A Taller Us, Album Review, Driven, Electro, Electropop, Foxtrott
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Chvrches – ‘Every Open Eye’ Analysis
by Tom Roden
What can artists learn from Chvrches’ second album? Electro-pop giants and gems Chvrches recently dropped their second album ‘Every Open Eye’, a hugely more mainstream pop album than their debut ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’.
Categories: Album Review, Band Aid, Mainstream Analysis, Review • Tags: Analysis, CHVRCHES, Every Open Eye, Mainstream Analysis, Review
Drakelow – ‘Beauty In Disorder’ Review
by Tom Roden
Charmingly sophisticated and well-formed Listen to: ‘Turning To Stone’; ‘Swallowing Diamonds’; ‘Monuments’; ‘Still Nothing’ Once known as Young Runaways, Drakelow have finally dropped their debut full length. And while the sound is definitely similar on a whole, ‘Beauty In Disorder’ shows exactly why the former monikor was dropped: the band have grown up and developed.
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Album Review, Beauty In Disorder, Drakelow, Listen, Review, Still Nothing, Turning To Stone
Arthur Walwin – ‘Sleepless’ Album Review
by Tom Roden
Pop meets Punk meets Electro, with great results For fans of: A Rocket To The Moon; All Time Low; Nevershoutnever; Hadouken! Arthur Walwin exists in the untouched patch of grass where the fields of pop, punk and dance meet. While we praised his single ‘Hard To Love’ not too long ago, you’ve got to wonder how far Walwin can go within that genre blend before it begins to either become repetitive or just too awkward.
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Album Review, Arthur Walwin, Chance, Hard To Love, Review, Sleepless, Sweet, This Feels Like Summer, White Wine
The Wild, The Youth – ‘The Wild, The Youth’ EP Review
by Tom Roden
Two Alt-Rock sounds united For fans of: Two Door Cinema Club; The Smiths; Jekyll The Wild, The Youth’s self-titled debut EP is alternative to its core, but in the midst of an identity crisis. Does it embrace the lighter and gentler side of alternative, the side that verges on dreamy shoegaze, or do they embrace the dirt and grit of the heavier side?
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Awake, EP, Predictable Me, Review, Searching For..., Self-Titled EP, The Epicurean, The Wild The Youth
Pikachunes – ‘Allely’ Review
by Tom Roden
Hook-focused pop rooted in emotion For fans of: Depeche Mode; Erasure; Pet Shop Boys Listen to: Writer’s Block’; ‘Perfume’; ‘Nebula (feat. Tommy III)’; ‘Friends And Family’ It’s a well-established songwriting technique to draw upon your own feelings and life experiences to create very personal music. It creates a feeling of honesty, and an artist being genuine is magnetic to listeners. Of course, the challenge in this is to turn your heartbreak into something that isn’t overbearingly sad. Cue Pikachunes, whose […]
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Album Review, Allely, Friends And Family, Miles G Loveless, Nebula, Perfume, Pikachunes, PIOY, Review, Tommy III, Writer's Block
Swiss Lips – ‘Swiss Lips’ Album Review
by Tom Roden
The best debut album in a long time For fans of: Synthpop; Years & Years Wow. Just wow. It’s not often that any album can leave me speechless, so it’s even more remarkable that it’s a debut album. Swiss Lips’ self-titled debut dropped two months ago, but I’m only just ready to use words to describe how good it is.
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Books, Carolyn, Debut Album, Honey, Over And Over, Review, Running Away, Swiss Lips, U Got The Power
God Damn – ‘Vultures’ Album Review
by Tom Roden
Stunning debut mixes primal power with fragile beauty Sounds like: Pure powerful noise; Gallows; Pure Love; Marilyn Manson Listen to: ‘By the Wayside’; ‘Deadpan Riot’; ‘Skeletons’ God Damn’s debut album ‘Vultures’ has finally dropped, and their ferocious brand of noise rock is as powerful and ear-busting as ever. While the album may open (properly) with the primal pounding and vicious vocals of ‘When The Wind Blows’, this album throws a few curveballs to those who were expecting a raw wall […]
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: By The Wayside, Deadpan Riot, Debut Album, God Damn, Review, Silver Spooned, Skeletons, Sullen Fun, Vultures, When The Wind Blows
Little Lapin – ‘Remember The Highs’ Album: Relaxation and Indie-Pop
by Tom Roden
Never has an album title been more spot-on. It feels like forever ago that we first heard Little Lapin’s single ‘Remember The Highs’. But finally, Little Lapin is building on that single with her stunning debut album. Does it stand up to its title track? Yes, would be the short answer. Long answer: pretty much, but ‘Remember The Highs’ is still one of the golden moments that you’ll take away from this experience. That’s not to say that the rest […]
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Album Review, Colour Blind, Go!Stop!Go, Little Lapin, Magnet Eyes, Panic, Remember The Highs, Review, Sound Of Summer
Hudson Taylor – ‘Singing For Strangers’: Recycled Gold
by Tom Roden
For anybody who has been following Hudson Taylor as long as we have, their debut album ‘Singing For Strangers’ will hold little surprises. But then again, if you’ve stayed loyalled to the brothers for so long then you won’t want too many surprises. It’s not just that ‘Singing For Strangers’ holds the trademark acousto-pop sounds of a band who have been refining their modern Simon and Garfunkel style for years, it’s that it actually hold many of the songs that […]
Categories: Album Review, Review • Tags: Album Review, Beautiful Mistake, Dont Tell Me, Gabrielle Aplin, Hudson Taylor, Just A Thought, Review, Singing To Strangers
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