John Robb
Tallulah Sim-Savage commands the mic with her visceral vocals, whilst the rhythm section has the power dynamics of early Nirvana with the cyclical throbbing bass lines of Lola Sam and drummer Alfie Sayer’s powerhouse hammering.
1y
She is not so much a death disco as a breath disco, FKA twigs sounds like nothing you heard before, and she has come from places you didn’t even know existed, and she defines groundbreaking with sounds you didn’t even know you needed.
1y
Here we are with a bleak album that dares to own up to the most profound truths in life with a stark yet melodic powerful music and those deeply personal gorgeous vocals.
1y
This is the album that will break them out because they dared to dream and they dared to make the personal public, and they dared to take their much loved shadowy sound and turn it into glorious yet introspective 21st-century pop music.
1y
Happenings is an enticing album from a band that exists beyond fashion.
1y
It was never intended as an end piece or a pointer to a future but as a snapshot of a genius musical combination and sounds as thrilling and fresh as anything they have ever done.
2y
There is a genius at work here, a bubbling surfeit of imagination as it confronts the inner darkness and the late-night craving of the city as every hungry animal.
2y
It’s these glimpses into her soul that combine with the perfectly realised songs that make this already one of the albums of the year and an album that very much sounds of the now swerving the futures and pasts of most pop culture and a template album for other artists to follow.
2y
This is deeply intelligent, thoroughly modern music and perhaps the best of a clutch of bands who have dared to take on post-punk and shunt it into another future in a different kitchen.
2y
Often an angry band paints itself into a corner but Bob Vylan were always more than blind rage. Taking the message to the masses without losing the edge is the conundrum that the Bobs are dealing with, and Humble As The Sun sounds like the beginning of their next adventure…
2y
They are still deconstructing their music and creating shapes. They still sound like future and their restless creativity and perfect playing marks them out as the alpha band in the cutting world whilst having huge hits in the other universes.
2y
As ever, Swans are full of surprise and enigma. They paint pictures and atmospheres that other bands can only dream of.
2y
It’s a wonderful record. It makes you dance, think, feel wild and gentle, sing and shout and want to change the world whilst embracing everyone you can in a physically socially distanced but mentally very socially attached kind of way.
5y
An album that leaves you exhausted and bathed in sweat when you listen to it and emotionally and physically turned inside out.
4y
Already locked in for album of the year, this is a masterful work from a group that have already defined the word epic on their mysterious and powerful releases over the years.
5y
Skip the ballads for many moments of dislocated dark pop groove genius for what could be her best album yet.
6y
An album of heartbreak and imagination, of stunning musical boundary breaking and raw emotional power – and an album that appeared out of nowhere and in a rush.
6y
To Be Kind is this years first masterpiece. A stunning, sprawling record that stands tall in a yer surrounded by the yapping mice of attention seeking chancers, a stunning work of art in a gallery of fools and the totem release in a year that’s also full of intriguingly ground breaking records.
6y
There has been a lot of talk about Nirvana recently and how they changed music forever and this is true but if only the world could hear The Icarus Line’s stunning new album then rock n roll could be cut loose and set free again.
2y
Ostensibly some sort of black metal band or post black metal band or some sort of ambient post shoegaze band or a blackgaze band or whatever- this is the sound of barriers being smashed.
3y
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