Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend
August 20th, 2019 | by Nicole Glennon
A decade on from Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’, pop seems to have arrived at a place where girls kissing …
Album Reviews
Clark – Kiri Variations
August 9th, 2019 | by Dominic Edge
In 2018 a British TV miniseries, Kiri, was revered for admirably broaching the contentious topic of transracial adoption. Viewers and …
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
July 25th, 2019 | by Maija Makela
David Berman quit music in 2009. The reasons for retiring his two-decade spanning cult indie-country-rock project as Silver Jews were …
Thom Yorke – ANIMA
July 12th, 2019 | by Andrea Cleary
A potent side-effect of modernity is the prevalent disconnection we experience from our inner selves; Freud identified the basic, instinctual …
Palehound – Black Friday
July 9th, 2019 | by Justin McDaid
With a warm, longing ode to a friend, Palehound’s third record opens with the kind of astutely observed, compassionately wrought …
Bill Callahan – Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
July 5th, 2019 | by Cathal McBride
From his extremely ramshackle 1990 debut Sewn to the Sky up until 2013’s far more polished Dream River, Bill Callahan …
The Divine Comedy – Office Politics
June 28th, 2019 | by Sean Kennedy
Neil Hannon has always been, one thinks rather consciously, something of an anachronism in contemporary pop – an urbane, somewhat …
Julia Shapiro – Perfect Version
June 20th, 2019 | by Mitchell Goudie
Perfect Version finds Julia Shapiro wrangling with the idea of the self at a tumultuous time in her life, cataloguing …
Cate Le Bon – Reward
June 8th, 2019 | by Maija Makela
The songs on Cate Le Bon’s fifth album, Reward, came about as the result of time spent in a cottage …
In Their Thousands – Acrasia
June 7th, 2019 | by Caolan Coleman
Donegal’s In Their Thousands are no overnight story, it’s fair to say: brothers Aidan and Declan McClafferty have been playing …
