Vampire Weekend return with a new album and a steadliy evolved sound palette. OGWAU imo shows a matured band, one that have developed a unique sound which allows them to make music that is unmistakeably VW but has the room to borrow from other influences (I’m particularly getting notes of Sufjan Stevens in some of the songs here?) without it sounding like a radical departure. They cast their net wide but it’s always their net, if that makes sense. Going off Capricorn, the lead ... read more
I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it- I still don’t entirely get why it’s become so acclaimed- but I liked it at the very least.
After nearly a decade of activity, Merseyside act The K’s have released their debut album and unfortunately it showcases a band without any semblance of a unique sound. Everything on display here from the loud, sweeping guitars to the dry, working-class everyman lyrical style adopted by the lead singer has been done before and better. That’s not to say The K’s are really even bad but alas they’re also not really good enough to justify listening to them over the bands ... read more
It’s no DEVIL IS A LIE… and already DEVIL IS A LIE was no MILLION DOLLAR BABY…
The Gallagher brothers briefly go insane and convince themselves they’ve been possessed by the spirit of John Lennon. It’s not even that bad, despite all logic.
What a weird song. Absolutely beautiful though. Sounds like opening a box full of toys you haven’t touched since you were a kid.
This song sounds like a poorly-assembled jigsaw. It has a ton of elements that could make it great but it’s been put together in such a clunky manner that reduces it to one big musical non-sequitur.
i can never not hear the chorus as “beating of a Minion drum, fire of a Minion gun, mother of a Minion son” just thought that was important to note
Clean Bandit made Rather Be in 2014 and for all of 3 minutes and 48 seconds their ‘dance-pop with violins’ idea actually worked. After that we were gifted a steady stream of utterly awful yet inexplicably massive singles like Rockabye and Solo, but then around the post-pandemic disaster strikes and they pretty much ditch the classical instrumentation, taking away the one remaining aspect that made them a unique band and essentially consigning them to being a generic dance act in an ... read more
NO NAME is provably Jack’s rawest and most earnestly rock album since The White Stripes days. It’s a very what-you-see-is-what-you get affair and luckily what you get is great. The production is bare and the mixing is raw which in turn gives a surprisingly intimate feel to the album, where it’s almost as if you’re in the room with Jack. His songwriting is as phenomenal as ever, be it his hooks on What’s The Rumpus or Old Scratch Blues or raving like a delusional ... read more
…yeah, no. I like The Dare, but… yeah, sorry, no.
…hm… maybe? Maybe… no. No.
I’m getting Evil Friends vibes from this song. Particularly the (brilliant!) opener Plastic Soldiers- it’s moody like that but with a folksy edge.
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