Lisa Wright
Five albums in and The Horrors have obviously found a new lease of life. This ‘V’ is for victorious.
8y
‘Fake Sugar’ paints Ditto as a more diverse, often even restrained artist than the larynx-shredding punk aggressor of the mid-00s.
8y
‘Pure Comedy’ needs investment. It’s verbose and it aims high and it’s not a record you can stick on in the background while you play Candy Crush. But unplug from this modern game of life just for a little while and it’s a very, very special reward indeed.
9y
It’s a record that’s well-travelled, that’s absorbed a whole myriad of influence and taken two years to digest it into something cohesive. But, impressively, it’s a record that still holds its identity despite all the ideas it’s binding together.
9y
'St Catherine’’s surface may be polished to perfection, but much of what’s underneath feels hollow.
10y
They’re too wilfully mad to emulate Tame Impala’s success, but if you’re after a freaking out, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s outrageous noise deserves attention.
11y
The real magic here is that, despite expanding their sonic remit further than ever, Queens Of The Stone Age are still the same peerless band, indebted only to themselves.
13y
While ‘Nocturne’ is gorgeous, it’s a little too predictable to become truly exciting.
13y
‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’ is a more than enjoyable collection of old-school indie gems.
13y
It doesn’t push any boundaries ... but, like anyone who remembers the giddy highs of 03-07 will know, none of that matters when your feet hit the floor.
11y
The Brooklyn quintet’s debut is louche, cool, and wickedly and exuberantly playful.
14y
From its spacious, shoegaze-inflected production to the surprisingly clean melodic lines that resonate throughout, this is an album that rings with the honed precision and craftsmanship of a job thoroughly done.
13y
‘Born To Die’ may ultimately prove too-blinkered a vision to fully appeal to the Sheeran-loving public in the long run, but Lana has certainly proved that she’s not just here to play games.
11y
Summer may have lasted approximately three and a half minutes, but Real Estate don’t care about technicalities like that. In their world the sun is perpetually setting, romance abounds and we’re all constantly a little bit stoned.
11y
Two years, lots of touring, and a wad of cash from Domino Records later and the New Jersey four-piece have shaken off the sun-flecked dust of that haphazard genre to reveal a clean and canny record.
11y
There are so many distinct yet intertwined influences peppered throughout ‘Slave Ambient’ it would be remarkably easy to lose the thread altogether. Yet somewhere in the haze it all just kind of… fits.
14y
