Album Reviews (Page 3)

There has always been something fascinating about artists who reject easy categorisation entirely. And Portland’s Mary Knoblock belongs firmly in that lineage. Existing somewhere between experimental composer, underground songwriter, visual storyteller, and atmospheric producer, she has spent years building a catalogue that refuses to settle comfortably into one shape. ButContinue Reading

There is a long tradition of bands attempting to soundtrack social collapse through noise, distortion and cynicism. But few manage to make that collapse feel this physically alive. On their new album ‘Vivisect’, Knifing Around channel dread, exhaustion and emotional fragmentation into an album that never stops moving, even while staring directly intoContinue Reading

There is an easy, unforced quality to ‘Little Epiphanies’ that gives the record much of its appeal. Built across multiple continents by a group of longtime friends now scattered between Australia, Europe, Asia, the UK and the US, the album could easily have felt fragmented by circumstance. Instead, it carries aContinue Reading

On their third album, The Breakdown move beyond inward-looking songwriting and begin engaging more directly with the fractured atmosphere of contemporary life. ‘Distraction Reaction’ is an album shaped by overstimulation, emotional fatigue and social disconnection, but it approaches those subjects with nuance rather than blunt cynicism. Across ten tracks, the London quintet blend melodicContinue Reading

There is something quietly fascinating about Red Jacket’s fourth studio album ‘Perfect Timing’. Not simply because of how ambitious it sounds, but because of who created it. At just seventeen years old, Dylan Wilson-Rogers is already making records with the emotional patience and artistic curiosity of someone decades older, avoiding theContinue Reading

On his new studio album ‘Home: Universes’, Tamer Sağcan continues building a musical language rooted in atmosphere, reflection and slow emotional immersion. Functioning both as a standalone instrumental album and as part of the wider mythology surrounding his own literary universe, the record feels carefully constructed without becoming overly conceptual or inaccessible. Across thirteenContinue Reading

With his latest endeavour ‘Mono Modern’, Xeno Ray JNB delivers a thoughtful and often challenging record that examines creativity, identity and technological anxiety through a deeply personal lens. Entirely self-written, produced, recorded and mixed by the South Carolina artist, the album feels intentionally unpolished in places, but that rawness ultimately becomes one ofContinue Reading

There is a strange, magnetic beauty running through ‘Not Here Not There’. The album feels suspended in motion, drifting through dimly lit emotional landscapes filled with memory, longing and late-night disorientation. Rather than offering immediate clarity, Mortal Prophets construct a record that reveals itself gradually, pulling us deeper into its hazeContinue Reading

There’s something fascinatingly unstable about ‘housecAt’, the latest release from Austin duo art pop. It’s an album that feels simultaneously intimate and fragmented, polished in concept yet deliberately frayed around the edges. Across its runtime, brothers Max and Miles Grossenbacher construct a world where indie-rock vulnerability collides headfirst with club rhythms, distortion-soakedContinue Reading