Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth AlbumAlbum by Kaiser ChiefsReleased 1 March 2024Pop RockLabel – V2Rating – 3/10 Mm, not really sure why I reviewed this. – I remember being a little bit irked by Kaiser Chiefs cleaning up their act. Bad-mannered social ambivalence traded its scruffy barnet for a nicer haircut over a decade ago, possibly […]
GUTSAlbum by Olivia RodrigoReleased 8 September 2023Pop Rock / Pop PunkProduced by Dan NigroRating – 7/10 Olivia Rodrigo saves the day. – What separates Olivia Rodrigo from any other sensationalist pop music rookie? Taking to the re-commercialisation of pop punk like a duck to a road of infinite wetness – and in a way that […]
So Much (for) StardustAlbum by Fall Out BoyReleased 24 March 2023Pop RockProduced by Neal AvronRating – 6/10 Brought to you by nostalgia. – Growing up with a number of friends reliant on the emo scene of the mid-to-late 2000s (I mean, it still exists, just not quite so much in popular music), I’m very familiar […]
Air GuitarAlbum by SobsReleased 26 October 2022Power Pop / Dream PopLabel – TopshelfRating – 8/10 Sobs’ sound haven, revising genres and production tricks under the guise of pop music. – The title track from Sobs’ Air Guitar is a canvas intent on blowing up into greater pursuits. Kicking off the album, the second by the […]
Alpha ZuluAlbum by PhoenixReleased 4 November 2022Synthpop / Pop RockLabel – GlassnoteRating – 6/10 Phoenix scour for olive branches…in a museum! – The Musée des Arts décoratifs is a decorative arts museum – no shit – located within the north-western wing of the Louvre Palace. Versailles indie pop-synthpop veterans Phoenix recorded their seventh album in […]
Being Funny in a Foreign LanguageAlbum by The 1975Released 14 October 2022Indie Pop / Pop RockLabel – Dirty HitRating – 7/10 Matt Healy finds new ways to open up. – It must be difficult to be funny in a foreign language; there’s a chance of having no idea if you’re hitting the right notes, inflecting […]
Viva Las VengeanceAlbum by Panic! at the DiscoReleased 19 August 2022Pop RockLabel – Fueled by Ramen / DCD2Rating – 2/10 Overwritten, overperformed, overproduced; a front-to-back crap haven. – Panic! At The Disco’s Viva Las Vengeance opens with the riff from The Clash’s Career Opportunities, tainted by production likely expensive, sounding as cheap as something you […]
Oxy MusicAlbum by Alex CameronReleased 11 March 2022Soft RockLabel – Secretly CanadianRating – 4/10 Novella without a purpose. – “You never know on which side you’ll fall when you’re sitting on the fence”. Oxy Music owes itself to fence-sitting; each narrative Alex Cameron offers is unargumentative, purposefully inconclusive as the album returns to characters and […]
Music of the SpheresAlbum by ColdplayReleased 15 October 2021Pop / Space RockLabel – Parlophone / AtlanticRating – 2/10 Any creative refinement of Coldplay’s space-bound concept album is sucked up by a black hole. – Coldplay’s ‘Coloratura’ deserves the utmost credit. Culminating ‘Music of the Spheres’, the album’s closer heroically wades its way through altering passages […]
Lately I Feel EverythingAlbum by WillowReleased 16 July 2021Pop-Punk / Alternative RockProduced by Willow / Tyler ColeRating – 6.5/10 Willow uses the nostalgia of pop-punk to conquer the pitfalls of young adulthood on her latest album. – I’d always known Travis Barker to collaborate with hip hop and electronic artists, so it was no surprise […]
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