Category: Album Reviews

I was twelve years old when ‘Summertime Sadness’ was released, just as myself and everyone I knew was finding puberty and social media. A mess of badly processed Instagram posts, captioned with the lyrics to this 2010s standout, ensued. A lot of us wished Lana Del Ray the way of Carly Rae Jepsen and Rebecca…

‘Shivers’-the second song on Ed Sheeran’s newest mathematical-operation-based series of albums, “=”, comes off as a little incongruous in tone, when you listen to it in context of the album order, as he pleads with you to in the release interview he did with Apple Music. It comes off as incongruous because it is, essentially,…

There’s really nothing to dislike about Biffy Clyro: Three Glaswegians taking a millennial emo sound and putting it in sonic packaging accessible with the generation that the likes of Evanescence and My Chemical Romance might be too….. let’s say ‘fruity’, for. It’s fun for a lot of purists to talk about Biffy Clyro being a…

Here’s the thing about being a swiftie: You tire of the hype, the teaser video promos, the hidden messages in the pre-release singles, and between 11 and 15 tracks of hype and unbridled pop magic. You can have too much of a good thing, as it turns out. Which is why Madame Swift’s 8th album…

Let me tell you a story. I walked out of the Leicester Square McDonalds, to a beautiful, sunny afternoon. Tourists and buskers everywhere. I’ve been a lot of places in this world. Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, whatever, yeah, and since I was 8, I’ve walked around these monolithic metropolises, yearning for a hand…

When I first listened to The Optimist, I was blown away. My massive speakers blaring out these beautifully introspective guitar ostinati and double tracked vocals with a good dash of electronics to boot got my little rock n roll brain all shook up. I listen to it now, and I hear it for what it…