Album Review: Bicep – Isles
7.5/10
It’s far from unusual for producers of electronic to turn themselves into live performers – a move paralleling Kraftwerk’s ironic substitution of themselves for dummies and beyond – but …
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Album Review: Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns
7.5/10
Kiwi Jr.’s debut Football Money may have given the impression in places that it was a little fingers and thumbs, but it sounded no worse for it. Indebted to …
Album Review: Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
8/10
By the time it’s over, there won’t be many people left unaffected by the events of the last twelve months in Britain. It took a pandemic to do it, …
Album Review: Pom Poko – Cheater
7/10
It’s always a shrewd move to release an album in early January. New releases generally dry up before the festive period, for good reason. The charts are clogged up …
Album Review: Shame – Drunk Tank Pink
7.5/10
More than half of the citizens of this planet have non-linear lives at the moment, so putting musicians on a pedestal would be the worst kind of exceptionalism. But …
Album Review: Shed Seven – Another Night, Another Town
7.5/10
Catchphrases from adverts are by definition meant to become part of language – that’s the point. In Britain, one that’s wedged itself into everyday conversation is for a wood …
Album Review: Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, Live At Brixton
8/10
There’s a certain double edged resonance to Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman singing, ‘I want to go back to old times’, on The Hill, arguably the moment from their …
Live4ever Presents: Blanketman
The latest instalment of Live4ever’s Presents introducing series features Blanketman.
Live4ever’s Best Of 2020: A terrible year soundtracked by brilliant music, topped by The Lounge Society
Click here to listen to The Lounge Society and the full list of Live4ever’s 20 tracks of the year. Well, that was a laugh wasn’t it? Officially The Worst …
Live4ever’s Best Of 2020: The Albums
After taking in Live4ever’s albums of the year, click here to read much more on why our number one is so prescient for 2020. 20: Working Men’s Club – …
Album Review: Belle And Sebastian – What To Look For In Summer
8/10
Whenever rival fans are looking up cliches to support the assertion that indie music is twee, Belle And Sebastian are usually one of the bands which they like to …
Album Review: The White Stripes – Greatest Hits
7.5/10
There was always a weird sort of make believe to The White Stripes, a job lot of superstitions it felt hard to not see as folklore. Jack White’s obsession …