REVIEWS
Album reviews
In a world where Pitchfork affords Lil Wayne as many column inches as Thom Yorke, it really is an oddity that R&B has rarely, if ever, been packaged with the indie crowd in mind.
In 2007 Panda Bear’s Person Pitch - an album that channelled the cathedral sound of early music’s visceral, choral vibe - broke new bread. What Noah Lennox did was to tap the hopeful...
When the Beta Band deemed their self-titled debut album proper “fucking awful” upon its release 12 years ago, most fans knew such defeatist talk should be taken with a very large grain...
When Elbow won the Mercury Music Prize for 2008’s wonderful The Seldom Seen Kid, the entire room leapt to its feet and threw their arms in the air – it was the sort of scene you’...
Jason Quever’s fourth record under the Papercuts name is his first on the legendary Sub Pop label (he’s still on Memphis Industries in the UK) and that step up to the ‘big-indies...
Yuck may come from North London, and this debut may be being released in 2011, but in their heads it’s 1994 and they come from somewhere on the...
Oasis were amazing: era-defining, culture-altering (for better or for worse, depending on your views on Stella and gobbing), arms-aloft-spine-tingling crowd pleasers. The record will show that...
After the xx’s sparse debut record was remixed by everyone from...
Even at this stage, almost 20 years after her striking debut album Dry, PJ Harvey is a prime example of an artist who refuses to stand still, constantly evolving...
For more than a decade Ben Chasny has been enchanting a devoted cult audience with various projects that have included psychedelia heroes Comets On Fire...
Caught live
Tonight sees the first of two rescheduled Manic Street Preachers gigs in the capital th...
With temperatures plummeting towards ten below-freezing and a blizzard engulfing the city centre, there are shades of ...
Through frozen streets, over snowdrift-covered roads, braving the sub-zero temperatures of this London December, the Arcad...
It’s about an hour into proceedings when it suddenly hits you: look, there’s those lads off of De La Soul! And there’s Mick Jones! Up there beside Paul Simonon!… And now he...
Pitched as "a brand new music and arts festival taking place against the backdrop of one of the UK’s most creative cities", the inaugural...
Michael Paul Hinson – the full name by which tonight’s main attraction introduces himself – is a decen...
Sunday night in Dublin, and the tip of Hurricane Tomas has been winding its way across the country all day – so it’s perhaps a...
“WHOA-OHHH, CHROMEOOO!”
There are few people in the world who can manage to get away with looking smug. Tonight, however, Dublin's Tripod bears witness to one such i...
Texan psychedelic folksters Midlake are not simply critics’ darlings here in Europe; they have slowly grown into a b...
A rather fitting lineup for the Hallowe’en weekend, this Skinny Wolves-curated affair forms part of the Darklight...
