Chris Catchpole
Crashes about with a wonderfully unpredictable joie de vivre.
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4w
Anyone who fell for Fontaines D.C.'s 2019 debut Dogrel should find plenty to love in this first offering from Cork's Cardinals.
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4mo
High-tempo Jersey club, EDM, hyper pop, trap, Chicago house and more hurtle past as if Parks is feeding them into a large hadron collider, her avant-garde verve on the likes of A Computer Love’s cacophonous glitch storm and Ms Pac Man’s tongue in-cheek profanity creating entirely new forms in the process.
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7mo
EURO-COUNTRY is everything great pop music should be: smart, subversive and tremendous fun.
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10mo
Richard Fearless processes life, death and techno on first DIV album since 2016.
1y
A Study Of Losses’ deep dive into grief and impermanence indulges Cordon’s already melancholic disposition for what might be his most beautiful record to date.
1y
Due to the circumstances, guitarist Jez Williams takes the lead on more tracks than is customary, including gorgeous, Smiths-referencing highlight Last Year’s Man. But despite a difficult incubation, Doves soar here.
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1y
Booker has relocated to a more contemporary - and sonically speaking, far more interesting - place here.
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1y
The inventiveness on display is undeniably impressive,but the process sometimes hides a little too much of the artist behind it.
3y
Over 14 bruising tracks, there’s no sign of frontman Joe Talbot’s unambiguously right- on polemic, not much humour and little in the way of festival-ready shoutalongs. It also might be the band’s most satisfying collection of songs to date.
4y
It's undoubtedly a sad voice she presents on Reward, but one that is unlike anyone else's.
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5y
An utterly captivating record from its first second to its last.
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5y
There's nothing here likely to be adopted as a stadium chant, but in its tethered imagination, Boarding House Reach is the most surprising and eccentric record White's made.
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5y
An album that repeatedly pulls you back in to try and decipher its charms.
5y
Anthems For Doomed Youth has plenty of reminders of why people fell in love with The Libertines in the first place ... For better or worse, the habit of both spinning and dwelling upon their own mythology remains too.
5y
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