Category: Album Reviews

Any band that has a pun in their name immediately piques my interest. From Korea’s Seoulful capital, and also based in London, Soul Delivery are a group of musicians creating…

“If everybody’s looking through me, I don’t exist” sings Vicky Egam, lead vocalist of Torontonian indie rockers Fjord Mustang on Five Years, the impressive opening track on their newest album…

Delay 45 are a jazz ensemble from Sydney, Australia. Just as that cosmopolitan city is set into its vast red continent, the group set traditional jazz elements; piano, trumpet, bass,…

Monologues is the most recent album from London-based ambient producer Iván Muela. Released on the Rusted Tone tape label, the album sees the artist develop intense and brooding atmospheres over…

Liverpudlian-cum-Kerry man Laurie Shaw is a hard artist to keep up with. By the time you’ve got around to listening to his new album, another one has been released. Ostensibly…

A stunning release from Korean multi-instrumentalist composer Park Jiha, The Gleam ruminates on the essence of light, that ubiquitous electromagnetic radiation that comes and goes as does the day and…

An ambitious eighteen-track project recorded “in the field, from the grassroots up'” on various islands across the Pacific and Indian ocean, Small Island Big Song is a beguiling document of…

Sergiu Celibidache once described time as a ‘condition’ by which ‘the multitude of information contained in sound can be reduced to a unity.’ On Formations by Sunhaus, the tracks seemingly…

Rich Freitas has been behind the drum kit for seventeen years now. For bands like Low-beam and Slander, he has been patient in developing his own musical voice. His debut…

Quebecois neoclassical composer Jean-Michel Blais has been releasing his own brand of piano-focused instrumental music since his much-acclaimed debut Il came out in 2016. His third album, aubades, sees the…