Johnny Sharp
There’s an alluringly atmospheric feel to the six-minute “Epilogue”, but these remain cute sketches in need of more colour to fully draw us in.
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2y
She relies on relative conservative house music tropes sometimes, but the hooks never fail to cut through.
3y
Her vulnerability is more affecting on the wistful break-up anthem "Losing", before "Younger & Dumber" closes the set with a pedal steel-laced paean to the woman she used to be.
3y
Food For Worms sometimes sounds like the work of a band running on fumes.
3y
South Londoners strike a balance between anthemic and cacophonous on third LP.
3y
Coruscating post-punk guitars, gnarly bass, gutsy soul vocal licks and infectious funk grooves elbow each other around.
3y
Worth a quick visit, but no need to hang about.
3y
If the reggae-metal of "I'm Insecure" is a little club-footed, the charisma of her delivery still wins through.
3y
Although his dabblings in bluegrass pastiche are less convincing elsewhere, it’s all shot through with characteristic, likeable idiosyncrasy.
3y
As the title suggests, Brooklyn-based Sarah Beth Tomberlin's second long-player seems to semi-consciously urge you to move along – nothing to hear here. Yet it creates its own slow-burning allure on repeated listens.
4y
Stereophonics keep up the good work on Oochya!, with a few surprises.
4y
A grab-bag of urgent pub-funk grooves, underpinned by abrasive Burnel-esque bass growls, sardonic chants and hooky shards of guitar make for a debut album bursting with character.
4y
Produced by Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem polymath Al Doyle, this debut album from New-Yorker-in-east-London Babatunde Doherty often sounds like the work of those acts' adopted nephew.
4y
Sixty Summers sees the kitten-voiced Julia take even bolder steps into uncharted territory.
5y
Beneath the smoky fug of a curiously bass-heavy, sometimes semi-psychedelic production, we find all sorts of intriguing experiments.
5y
Wild? Not exactly, but there can’t be many places in the world where it wouldn’t translate.
6y
Aussie psychedelicists King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard go very metal on Infest The Rat's Nest.
6y
Despite some pleasant enough tunes, she lacks the vocal charisma to stand out from other wannabe Rihannas, Mileys and Dua Lipas.
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5y
Sure, they’re keenly aware of their own wackiness, but if that didn’t put you off Primus, it probably won’t bother you here either. And despite the odd cooing Lennon harmonies, we’re a long way from Strawberry Fields.
3y
Alive and kicking: Iggy and co. put the sex in sexagenarian on superbly sleazy new album.
6y