SnakeOil’s The Wild Side begins with a question and spends the next thirty-three minutes making certainty feel increasingly unreliable. The debut album from Nick Cutrer’s project draws heavily from the colour and looseness of 60s and 70s psychedelia, but its real subject is perception. Across nine tracks, he moves through classic rock,Continue Reading
On his latest full-length release Fire in the Master’s House, Sheykh Forever brings political subject matter into direct contact with disco, funk, rock and electronic music. The fourteen-track album, written, produced, mixed and mastered at home by Iraqi-born, London-based musician Mostafa Al over four years, centres on war, displacement, propaganda andContinue Reading
There’s this unusual tenderness running through Hank Tree’s Care I. The album is rooted in songwriter Fergus MacDonald’s years working within the care sector, but its real subject is the vulnerability of simply needing another person. Across its eleven tracks, he turns experiences of isolation, resilience, recovery and dependence into anContinue Reading
Tallulah Rendall’s new album ‘Only Human’ is built around the unusually open admission that healing is rarely graceful, linear or complete. Across its twelve songs, she moves through shame, panic, grief, self-worth and belonging, drawing directly from experiences that include a toxic relationship and the death of her father. The album isContinue Reading
Wade Easy has been moving quickly, but Honey Venom doesn’t sound rushed. As his third album in under a year, the record continues the Appalachian psychedelia of Sleeping With the Sun On and Sea of Night while shifting the emphasis towards something more sensual, stripped-back and tactile. Across ten tracks, he combines hazy guitar, loose rhythmsContinue Reading
There’s a satisfying sense of progression running through The Ingredient. The Venus Children’s debut album begins with urgency and impact, then gradually turns inward, allowing its harder edges to give way to something more reflective and emotionally exposed. Throughout this new collection, the band have built it to move through differentContinue Reading
With her new collection ‘RECALIBRATED’, Amana Melome’ revisits the material from Recalibration from a noticeably different perspective. Where the original album focused on reflection, reconnection and personal change, this companion project is lighter on its feet, using rhythm and reinterpretation to explore what comes after that process. The collection moves across deep house,Continue Reading
Martin Kuiper’s Prison Of Modesty brings together songs written across more than thirty years, making it a record shaped as much by reflection as by composition. Some of its earliest material dates back to 1998, while other songs were completed much later, giving the album a naturally broad perspective on relationships, ambition,Continue Reading
After nearly four decades, Bloodkin have accumulated the kind of history that inevitably shapes any new record. Flowers & Ash arrives as the first album the Athens, Georgia band has made following the death of founding member Daniel Hutchens in 2021, and that loss forms an important part of the record’s emotionalContinue Reading
There’s something especially captivating about a record that begins with simplicity and gradually grows into something far stranger than originally intended. And on his latest album One Hundred Billion Points of Light, Bay Area artist Valley Taylor takes that journey in full, transforming the bare bones of intimate home demos intoContinue Reading