Category: Reviews

Soundtrack – Singles (Deluxe Edition)
[Epic/Sony] Here we can re-live the 1990s alternative music scene when intense post-punk bands released albums that went straight to ...

Frenzal Rhomb – Hi-Vis High Tea
[Fat Wreck Records] Album number nine for Frenzal Rhomb comes six years after the band last visited the punk rock ...

I’d Die For You & Other Lost Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Scribner; 2017] It can pay to be wary of offerings that appear in a puff of posthumous magic, bearing adjectives ...

DJ Khaled – ‘I’m The One’
DJ Khaled is an #Instagram #Influencer who parleyed a radio gig into a near constant string of guest spots and ...

Broken Social Scene – ‘Skyline’
The “it” Canadian indie rock supergroup, for those unacquainted, Broken Social Scene has always been built around big rock hooks, ...

Deputy Chief Warden – ‘Invited To Parties’
Occasionally a new face hits the scene and produces something really unexpected, but really good. At just 15 years old, ...

The Newsletters – ‘Tuesday’
Fronted by Conor Hutchison (ex-Cat Cat), The Newsletters have been building towards something like this for a while. ‘Tuesday’ combines ...

Alien: Covenant
“One wrong note can destroy an entire symphony.” Quite an apt description for what the prequels are doing to the ...

John Wick: Chapter 2
Man, this film’s a hoot. John Wick: Chapter 2 capitalises on the ‘cool’ elements of the original 2014 sleeper hit: ...

A Quiet Passion
The latest film by Terence Davies manages to deliver a story that departs slightly from both what people expect from ...