Mogwai @ Meltdown
The post-rock band delight with a set drawn from across their back catalogue»
Articles
chrisshipman has written the following articles:
Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
The Smashing Pumpkins in 2018 are an anachronism»
Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today
Nine albums in, Death Cab for Cutie are just about holding it together»
Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
It’s brutal and brilliant stuff»
A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
A Perfect Circle’s return to active duty as a living, breathing band is broadly speaking a good thing for the hard rock scene»
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
In his mid-thirties, Gothenburg’s favourite son remains a vital artist»
The Great Divide? The challenges of creating music in Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Can Mekudeshet Festival demonstrate that tolerance, inclusivity, and cooperation can exist in a land of conflict?»
Max Richter Live at the Barbican
Chris Shipman finds that a shortened Sleep is no substitute for the full eight hours...»
Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - Collaborative Works
What it lacks in structural polish, it makes up for in quality»
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
A rich, dense and rewarding album»
Kwabs - Love + War
A solid – if imperfect – debut which demonstrates a serious talent whose star will undoubtedly ascend»
The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It
An album where threat and violence sit ever on the edge of things»
Jóhann Jóhannsson and Bill Morrison – The Miners Hymns @ Barbican, 9 March 2014
It’s these generations of men, and the communities they called home that filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson have turned their focus to for this collaboration...»
British Sea Power - From the Sea to the Land Beyond
From the Sea to the Land Beyond sees British Sea Power operating on a different level.»
Glasvegas - Later... When the TV Turns to Static
Alarm bells probably started to sound around Later… When the TV turned to Static when Glasvegas frontman, former footballer, and self-styled people’s poet James Allan opted to record the band’s third album on Pavarotti’s mixing desk...»
Daughn Gibson - Me Moan
Me Moan is a remarkable record that takes a genre rooted in formulae and clichés – country – and spins it into something fresh, compelling and edgy.»
Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Inspiring stuff indeed.»