Album review: PRIMO!
Music Reviews Thu, Apr 30, 2020
THERE IS something in the sound and style of contemporary antipodean indie-punk which feels as though it were music recorded sometime in '78 or '79, and left languishing in a vault until now.
Read more ...Album review: Ezra Furman
Music Reviews Thu, Apr 23, 2020
ART HAS the ability to resonate with, and speak meaningfully to, situations it was never conceived to address, and there are points on Ezra Furman's new album that feel as though is speaking about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...Album review: Laura Marling
Music Reviews Thu, Apr 16, 2020
ENERVATION AND melancholy have dominated many albums released so far in 2020 - an understandable reaction to last year with Brexit, the continued presence of Trump, and climate change, as well as an uncomfortable presaging of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Read more ...Album review: Låpsley
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 19, 2020
THE PERSONAL is political is a phrase/slogan/rallying call which has been around since the late 1960s, but is one that feels ever more pertinent and apt.
Read more ...Album review: Autre Monde
Music Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2020
PADDY HANNA has never been afraid to embrace the eccentric and off-kilter side of his creativity on his solo albums, and in Autre Monde songwriter Padraig Cooney, he has met a kindred spirit.
Read more ...Album review: The Hanging Stars
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 27, 2020
THERE HAS been an enervated, lethargic, feel to many of the albums released so far in 2020 - at least to these ears - resulting in some worthy works, which ultimately fail to fully engage.
Read more ...Album review: Grrrl Gang
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 13, 2020
WHILE INDIE fans on this side of the world are open to, and to a certain extent familiar with, indie-rock from Japan and Korea, Indonesia is entirely unknown territory.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser's Best Albums of 2019
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 19, 2019
1. Lankum - The Livelong Day (Rough Trade) - Galway Advertiser album of the year
Read more ...Album review: The Flaming Lips
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 05, 2019
THE LIVE album is very much a 1970s creature. In a time when your favourite band was unlikely to come to your town, it allowed you the vicarious thrill of 'almost being there' once the needle hit the vinyl.
Read more ...Celebrating the quiet man of sixties British pop
Music Reviews Thu, Nov 28, 2019
WHILE THE name Ivor Raymonde may not be familiar, the songs he wrote, produced, or provided orchestral arrangements for, are among the finest of British sixties pop.
Read more ...EP review: Hiperson
Music Reviews Thu, Nov 14, 2019
IN A world so dominated by the English language, it is refreshing when a band goes against the grain and sings in their native tongue. Hiperson, from Chengdu in southwest China, is one such act.
Read more ...Album review: Starcrawler
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 31, 2019
WHAT A difference a year makes. In 2018 LA's Starcrawler's debut album arrived after much hype and celebrity endorsements from Dave Grohl and Elton John. It was spirited and energetic, but scrappy and inconsistent.
Read more ...Album review: Lankum
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 24, 2019
'THE WILD Rover' is known as a rambunctious, 'no regrets' ode, to a one time life of boozing. In the hands of Lankum though, it is a very different proposition.
Read more ...Album review: Daithí
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 17, 2019
INTROSPECTIVE, CONFESSIONAL songwriting is not an approach readily associated with electronic music, which tends mostly towards the austere and abstract on one side, or euphoric, Balearic, hedonism on the other.
Read more ...Album review: Kim Gordon
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 10, 2019
THE EASIEST way to approach Kim Gordon's debut album is not necessarily at the start, but towards the end, with the furious, rampaging, hurtle of 'Hungry Baby'.
Read more ...Album review: Kacy & Clayton
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 03, 2019
THE SASKATCHEWAN cousins 2018 album, The Siren's Song, was steeped in late 1960s British folk-rock, with clear nods to Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Anne Briggs.
Read more ...Album review: Squarehead
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 26, 2019
HAVING TAKEN some time out for "a much-needed mental health break" after three albums in three years and constant touring, Dublin trio Squarehead pick up, not exactly where they left off.
Read more ...Album review: Liam Gallagher
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019
IT IS impossible to read the title of Gallagher jr's second solo album and not hear it as he would say it, delivered, undoubtedly with all the Mancunian cock-sure swagger you would expect.
Read more ...Album review: Pixies
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 12, 2019
WHEN YOU have created the albums Surfer Rosa (1987) and Doolittle (1989), seen them achieve classic status, and their songs continue to find new generations of fans via TV, film, and indie clubnights, there can only be one thought: follow that.
Read more ...Album review: the strange, the brilliant, and the awful from the 60s counterculture
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019
THIS VAST and varied 18 track compilation, spanning 1959 to 1973, and running from the innovative to the period piece curiosity to the 'What were they on?', unearths some overlooked gems worth re-exploring and reconsidering.
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