Deerhunter’s eighth album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? features more acoustic and Baroque influences with existential, trance-like lyrics as opposed to their trademark alt-rock style. It is fundamentally tethering itself to environmental and societal decay with scenes of dissatisfied workers immersed and trapped in a barren wasteland that has not quite yet “disappeared” but instead […]
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Album Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s IC-01 Hanoi
It had been 6 months since our ‘Ffunny Ffriends’ Unknown Mortal Orchestra released their last full-length album, the contemplative and empathetic Sex and Food, and a further three years since they released the bright, brilliant, and vulnerable Multi Love, which rocketed the band to critical acclaim. As a long-time fan of the psychedelic group, I […]
Live Review: Thank You Scientist @ Exeter Cavern
Thank You Scientist is a band that is impossible to pin down. On the one hand they kind of sound like an orchestra on meth, yet on the other they incorporate some beautiful guitar driven melodies into their music. In speaking to songwriter-in-chief and the driving force of the band, guitarist Tom Monda, he summed […]
Album Review: Kelela – Take Me Apart
I first heard Kelela Mizanekristos’ brand of experimental R&B-infused electronica back in October 2013, when I downloaded her Cut 4 Me mixtape upon receiving a recommendation from one of my favourite blogs at the time. I fell in love shortly after pressing play. Unfortunately for me, it would be another two years before she dropped […]
Album Review: Jake Bugg – On My One
Jake Bugg has returned with what he has called his ‘make or break’ third album. With these self-imposed high stakes, it is interesting that Bugg has chosen this to be the album with which he has experimented the most, dipping his toes into genres as diverse as folk, blues, country, rock and even rap. On […]