A Few Words on... Atoms for Peace - AMOK

Whilst Radiohead continue to tour with hints of new material arriving sooner rather than later, frontman Thom Yorke has been exceptionally busy elsewhere with newer friends.

David Bowie - The Next Day Review

I'll be the first to admit that I'm probably not the best person to review this. My first experience of Bowie came when my Dad asked me to scour the interwebs in search of the Spiders on Mars' album (the actual band, not Ziggy Stardust...) and my friends raving about Life on Mars (the TV show) and having the song of the same name played repeatedly for driving.

Naturally; I was suckered into the hype of David Bowie's first album in a decade. How years of trawling through his back catalogue showcased some of the best albums I'd ever heard. How the media was left stunned that his comeback wasn't on their radar and how the album would see Bowie reinvent himself again as a veteran rock and roller as opposed to the otherworldly persona's seen from his early days up until...2003?

It's a guaranteed number one and might possibly be the best selling album of the year but, at the end of it all, if you move past the hype, the ongoing adulation from other publications; is The Next Day, not only a good album but the comeback that Bowie needed?

A Few Words on... Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

With Porcupine Tree on a indefinite hiatus; all eyes are on Steven Wilson's third solo outing and whether it can top the surprisingly great double album Grace for Drowning.

A Few Words on... The Hunger Games

A Few Words on... Foals - Holy Fire

Before listening to it in full; I had Holy Fire as one of the possible Albums of the Year, taking into consideration how much I liked the singles Inhaler and My Number and how much the band progressed from their debut to Total Life Forever.

Biffy Clyro - Opposites Review

There are only a handful of good double albums, afterall, it's a hard art to master. Instead of showing the creative output that simply couldn't be contained on one disc; it can normally go on for too long. Songs that should have been relegated to B-Sides or, not released at all, are suddenly thrown in the spotlight and the record suffers for it.

Christopher Owens - Lysandre Review

One of last year’s biggest musical casualties was the break-up of Girls. No, not the TV show. No, not the gender itself. Rather, the indie-rock darlings that had the lead singer who sounds like Randy Newman and music that takes more than a fair nod from sixties and seventies’ rock and roll.