Album Review: Rise Against – Nowhere Generation
6.5/10
Rise Against began their career on the Chicago scene before the decision to sign with a major left the punk community underwhelmed.
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Album Review: Rostam – Changephobia
7/10
Careers don’t come much more impressive, or arguably have less of a need for recapping, than Rostam’s.
Album Review: Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
9/10
Wolf Alice had arguably punched way above their weight with their first two releases, each critically applauded and commercially successful.
Album Review: Night Beats – Outlaw R&B
7.5/10
Blackwell records as Night Beats, although to all intents what was at one time a band is now just him.
Album Review: Lambchop – Showtunes
7.5/10
For Lambchop there may unwittingly be an expiration date on the music which the biggest global crisis in a century has spawned.
Album Review: Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods
7.5/10
Gruff Rhys goes where many others fear to tread; in a fifteen-year solo trot he’s made records about, John DeLorean and John Evans.
Album Review: St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home
7/10
As St. Vincent, Clark has continued her project-to-project metamorphosis.
Album Review: The Chills – Scatterbrain
7/10
This is the most stable line-up of The Chills there’s ever been throughout the Dunedin band’s four-decades-plus history.
Album Review: Will Stratton – The Changing Wilderness
7.5/10
Like many of us, Will Stratton has had plenty of moments over the last eighteen months in which to reflect.
Album Review: Squid – Bright Green Field
7/10
Nearly always experimental and in places chaotic, Squid have made a record with which it’s impossible to have a casual relationship.
Album Review: Leon Vynehall – Rare, Forever
8/10
Leon Vynehall doesn’t really tick many of those front room boxes; cerebral but intense, he's far from most people’s stereotypical producer.
Album Review: Royal Blood – Typhoons
7.5/10
A new album from a band like Royal Blood always fuels that kind of perpetual meta, the one about guitar music as we head into the 20s proper.