Gizzard's longest album is without a doubt their most sprawled and chaotic, drawing together tons of sounds that they've delved into over all of their past albums. After a few listens you certainly feel the weight of the run time, but regardless there's still some shining moments, and it's for sure one of their most interesting listens by a pretty large margin.

Favourite Song: The Dripping Tap

Best: Magenta Mountain, Kepler-22b, Gaia, Ambergris, Sadie Sorceress, Blame It On The Weather, ... read more

Louis Cole can't stop making the same one song (even if he's not singing), but he knows it's a damn good one. He's like Jacob Collier but funky, actually listenable and reasonably charming. KNOWER FOREVER is all around a jazzy good time, and to answer the age old question, I do in fact believe hot girls enjoy some chords now and again.

Favourite Song: Do Hot Girls Like Chords?

Best: I'm The President, The Abyss, Real Nice Moment, Nightmare, It Will Get Real

Worst: Same Smile, Different Face

An emotional breakdown disguised as an album, and a pretty weird one at that. There's so many purposefully deranged things going on here for the sake of drama and intrigue, and sometimes it works but sometimes it is a bit jarring. The Idler Wheel is not as consistently brilliant as her first two albums, but it's certainly still a good listen due to Fiona's usual lyrical genius and her all around weird natural piano laced charm as an artist.

Oh and Hot Knife is a theatre kid song. Sorry. ... read more

A really lovely country effort with a dash of indie rock thrown in for good measure. Farwell Transmission is a transcendent masterpiece of a song, and the album does a great job at showing the ends that country and Americana can reach.

Favourite Song: Farwell Transmission

Best: I've Been Riding With The Ghost, Just Be Simple, Almost Was Good Enough, The Old Black Hen, John Henry Split My Heart, Hold On Magnolia

Worst: Peoria Lunch Box Blues

RENAISSANCE II: Electric(ish) Boogaloo

"Yeah man, Blackbird is my favourite country song."

COWBOY CARTER is a fascinating listen for many reasons. Let's get the obvious out of the way: it's a country based double album from a predominantly pop and R&B artist, which is already a bit of an oddity if it weren't for the fact that Beyoncé already did a country song back on Lemonade. If any pop star was going to attempt an all around country effort, it would be her I guess. ... read more

It baffles me how we as a society chose to give all of our alt R&B praise to Frank Ocean. Sampha is literally out here bending heaven's will with some of these beats and we're still pining for more music from the man who's reduced his fanbase to recipients of an overpriced cock ring.

Process takes a heavenly electronica focused approach to R&B, but it's not done in an abrasive way. Instead the production cruises around Sampha's sultry voice, and creates some really interesting moments ... read more

It's been eighty four years. I'm almost at the end of the King Gizzard discography.

I can't lie, when I started the Gizz journey I found the first half really easy to get through, but from around Polygwondwanaland I've really been struggling to keep my interest in this venture going. It's not even that their discography is that overwhelming, I guess it's just the case that the band can get really tiring to listen to sometimes when they don't switch up what they're doing enough. And when I make ... read more

Trippy and spacious, and a nice synth-ridden departure from the usual Gizz tactics that doesn't sacrifice too much of their identity.

Favourite Song: Shanghai

Best: Yours, Dreams, Blue Morpho, Interior People, Catching Smoke, 2.02 Killer Year, Butterfly 3000

Worst: Ya Love

I can't add much to The Glow Pt. 2's discourse that hasn't already been said, so I'll just leave it as an album that I did enjoy but not one that I wholly see the incredible astounding music-defining hype for. This album's greatest strength to me is its ability to revel in an atmosphere of the blissful unknown, leading to quite a long track list with a handful of songs lacking direction or identity, but it's also kind of a flaw to the album. The first three tracks are phenomenal, but then the ... read more

To Bring You My Love is exciting, unpredictable, and heavy yet pretty, but it's most importantly a shifting rock record that remains anything but complicit in one style or approach. Harvey is such a wonderfully unique artist and I'm eager to delve deeper into her discography.

Favourite Song: To Bring You My Love

Best: Meet Ze Monsta, Working For The Man, C'mon Billy, Teclo, Long Snake Moan, Down By The Water, Send His Love To Me, The Dancer

Worst: I Think I'm A Mother

Listening to this live piece with and without the concert film made me realise just how visual-based The 1975 are as a band. Whether it be with their playing styles, their antics, the funny rectangle, the light shows or whatever else, seeing as well as hearing is such a fundamental factor to the band's level of quality. Listening to the album version of this without the visuals is really jarring, because I remembered loving the concert film, but suddenly the music lacks a little oomph when you ... read more

Soothing yet devastating, Either/Or marvels in its deceptive simplicity and creates a very human world within Smith's words. It's just a man, his guitar, and some loneliness on the side, and it's quietly enticing.

Favourite Song: Angeles

Best: Speed Trials, Alameda, Ballad of Big Nothing, Between the Bars, No Name No. 5, Rose Parade, Say Yes

Worst: Cupid's Trick

To the surprise of literally no-one, IDLES sounds really good live. Though their earlier stuff produced their most consistently good crop of songs, when you essentially listen to their first two albums back to back being played live, it grows a little tiring after a while. I am for one glad that TANGK and CRAWLER are changing the direction of the band, because even though this live album is decent, it's a hell of a lot of the same sort of thing.

Favourite Song: Colossus

Best: Never Fight A ... read more

L.W. is in my opinion a much stronger counterpart to K.G., with more interesting directions that it takes itself and with many more bangers and just general intrigue injected into the track list. These two albums still aren't anything majorly worthwhile though, but this one at least has more of an identity and is plain and simple just more fun.

Favourite Song: See Me

Best: If Not Now Then When?, O.N.E., Pleura, Supreme Ascendancy, Static Electricity, East West Link,

Worst: Ataraxia

Mountainhead has some nice production and has the typical Everything Everything likeable quirks, but did this really need to be over 50 minutes long and have 14 tracks? When so many of the songs kind of just fall under the blanket of 'It's an Everything Everything song and nothing else', you really have to dig deep to justify having such an elongated and samey track list throughout. Despite having a couple of good songs in there, they keep seeming to default to the same sound they've been doing ... read more

The most King Gizzard album imaginable, fit with all of their usual psychedelic tricks. It's alright, but very formulaic and lacks pretty much any distinguishable features compared to their already psychedelically worn out discography.

Favourite Song: Minimum Brain Size

Best: Automation, Ontology, Oddlife

Worst: Intrasport

Fender's popularity bloom in recent years has very much been earned, and it all comes from this little album. It's a collection of personal tales mixed with dollops of catchiness and simple yet very effective production. Seventeen Going Under is a little predictable and tame in many regards, but it doesn't need to be more than that to make each of Fender's songs feel impactful in numerous different ways. Though the overt political efforts may feel a little out of place like on Aye, the more ... read more

Fun fact: The Rat is IDLES frontman Joe Talbot's favourite song! :)
Less fun fact: The Walkmen are a one hit wonder :(

Bows + Arrows is a dreary and tired 2000's post-punk effort, which attempts to live up to the other bands that were popular at the time, but they couldn't hit their niche hard enough with any songs other than The Rat. That song is phenomenal by the way, but everything else is either too slow, generic or just generally uninspired. A real shame.

Favourite Song: The ... read more

It's boogie time, baby!!!

A hellishly fun, groovy and high octane time, and just in case you forget the inspirations behind this album, they make sure to say the word 'boogie' once every two seconds. One of the band's most unique listens and undoubtedly one of their best.

Favourite Song: This Thing

Best: Fishing For Fishies, Boogieman Sam, The Bird Song, Plastic Boogie, The Cruel Millennial, Acarine

Worst: Cyboogie

It's insane to think that this band released five albums in 2017 and only one of them felt lacking in some sort of way. I seriously cannot wrap my mind around the Gizz's knack for consistent quality.

Gumboot Soup is quite a peculiar album, with it basically being Oddments II in terms of stuffing together stuff that could've been on past albums but didn't quite make the cut, and there's also two songs which would end up fitting on later albums too with the wonderfully metal Great Chain of Being ... read more