David Bowie - Blackstar Review

We should have seen it coming. It should never have been a surprise.

Back in 2013, David Bowie shocked the music world by daring to release a comeback album. A decent album, let down by it's length and normality. At fourteen tracks, it was a long journey from beginning to end, but it was good nonetheless, not his best comeback but miles better than say, Black Tie White Noise.

Album Rankings for 2015

Another year, another list of albums with hyperlinks to ones I bothered to write about and ones that I listened to, rated and then either had no intention of reviewing or lost momentum to.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review

A decade ago, the Star Wars franchise for all intents and purposes, looked relegated to a children's television series, an expanded universe so deep and large that it was nearly impossible to grasp, the odd, decent game (and a few that should have been flung into the Death Star's core) and a series of web reviews by a senile murderer from New Jersey, which eviscerated the prequel trilogy and provided infinitely more entertainment than they ever did.

Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Review

Whilst last year saw Coldplay release an album so mediocre, it was almost upsetting, A Head Full of Dreams sees the band return to the colourful, simple realms of pure pop and, whether it was Ghost Stories being that bad, A Head Full... is a surprising return to form on what has been alluded to as a final album.

Adele - 25 Review

It's been so long since Adele released an album, that this sporadically updated, poorly written and Freudian piece I call a blog wasn't even reviewing music releases. 

In the four year gap between 21 and 25, the twenty-seven year old became one of the only musicians to make the same money that record labels think musicians can still make, she released one of the better James Bond songs of the past twenty years (although I still like You Know My Name and I know that's wrong), but above all else; she stayed private, thus any return would salivate the press, her fans, your mum, everyone with what she had to offer.

So when Adele returned from normality with what the press dare say, a 'comeback' single called Hello, all the ISIS threats, all the social justice injustices and, well, just about everything, took a backburner for five minutes.

A Few Words on... Hurts - Surrender

I'd say I have a complicated relationship with Hurts, but that would imply I know them rather than simply enjoy their music, despite them sounding like a lot of the generic dross that refuses to leave the mainstream charts.

A Few Words on... Editors - In Dream

Before giving Editors fifth album a spin, I was pretty much settled on the idea that the record would be more of a continuation of the electronic, synth heavy In This Light and On This Evening rather than their good if sometimes flat americana fourth album The Weight of Your Love.