It’s fascinating to observe just how Mike Hadreas’ music as Perfume Genius has evolved over the last 15 years. When his debut album, Learning, was released in 2010, it was full of fragile piano ...

It’s quite a surprise to see Alison Krauss reuniting with Union Station to produce their first album since 2011’s Paper Airplane. Not because there was any dramatic fallout between the band of course, ...

The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grown Deafheaven have made a name, ...

It takes a special kind of confidence to invite comparisons to one of the most revered albums in history, but if anyone can, ...

The London-via-NYC polymath’s third album is proof positive that the more you write about what you know, the better the ...

This hypnotic response to modern economic crisis proves that even when the cryptic London collective tread familiar ground, they do so with an energy that few can match Few bands are as committed to ...

If you’re having withdrawal symptoms while waiting for the inevitable second Boygenius album, one third of the supergroup has just the record for you The latter is, of course, nobody’s business other ...

Floating somewhere between worlds – spiritual and streetwise, experimental yet grounded, like the smell of incense outside a ...

Also, being a Japanese Breakfast album, there are also moments of deep sadness. Little Girl deals with a father who finds solace in gin and watching ATVs race, while “dreaming of a daughter who won’t ...

The Horrors – yes, those Horrors, the ones who crawled out of the crypt with Strange House, tore the indie rulebook in half with Primary Colours, and caused some people to fucking levitate with Skying ...

Half of The Lemon Twigs dives deep into his mellow, introspective world and gives a glimpse of what’s going on in his head. The other half is along for the ride Tracks like the Paul McCartney-esque ...