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Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
With each and every passing album Mudhoney seem to be slowly morphing into the best Iggy Pop cover band in the world»
Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
The most exciting thing about 1992 Deluxe is that it can clearly get so much better for Princess Nokia»
John Maus - Screen Memories
With Screen Memories, John Maus has accidentally entered the mainstream»
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
A lot of things about Murder of… shouldn’t work, but they just kind of do»
Peaking Lights - The Fifth State of Consciousness
When handled correctly, nostalgia can be a fine tool. A fine tool indeed.»
Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog
The sound of an artist on top of his game»
Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Badass
The New Yorker's second full length record feels like a culmination of all of the years spent working away at his craft»
British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
It’s instant hit after instant hit after instant hit»
Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
The repetition wears thin»
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Taking on the role of the sexist, deflated man with uncomfortable intensity»
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
The Flaming Lips have managed to take us on apocalyptic journey that’s also fun»
Peter Doherty - Hamburg Demonstrations
He can still pen a tune or two»
XAM Duo - XAM Duo
A kind of musical accompaniment to the bleak events that are currently terrorising TV screens and tablets across the globe»
The Growlers - City Club
Let’s chalk this up as a failed experiment»
The Wedding Present - Going, Going...
The group's best since their sublime Seamonsters»
Titus Andronicus - S+@dium Rock : Five Nights at the Opera
A live record that says everything and nothing at the same time»
Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
It’s Nineties music for the twenty-first century»
Metronomy - Summer 08
Joe Mount has always had an ear for a tune with a capital 'T', but never has he produced such a solid collection of instant classics»
Adam Green - Aladdin
The whole 'soundtrack' concept becomes quite a hindrance to the magic of the album»
Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
Proves just how relevant the group can be in the age of Soundcloud snippets and premium Snapchat filters»
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come to Expect
Time for the lads to put the puppets back in the toy box»
Mmoths - Luneworks
A world of tearful robotics and shimmering melancholy»
So Pitted - Neo
As painfully Sub Pop as it gets, and it’s painful in a wonderful, wonderful way»
Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now…
What The World Needs... is solid proof that reformations never sound good on record»
McCarthy - I Am A Wallet (reissue)
We need more groups like McCarthy these days»
EZTV - Calling Out
EZTV has actually proven that to sound okay, is to sound rebellious»
Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure
No Pier Pressure shows just what too many cooks can do to a Beach Boy's broth»
Only Real - Jerk at the End of the Line
A formulaic, traditional record.»
Troyka - Ornithophobia
Someone should give Thom Yorke a call. Troyka have the tools make his dream a reality. Well, they would do, if they'd just stop with that dastardly noodling.»
Sleaford Mods - Tiswas
Spitting punk pile into the earholes of anyone who will listen.»