Jake Bugg - On My One Review

Whilst there was nothing particularly wrong with Jake Bugg's previous releases, it seemed hypocritical of him to headline bait on how manufactured mainstream pop is when, he himself, uses co-writers and composers for his previous releases.

Whilst nowhere near as heartbroken as Noel Gallagher (although I do agree that he could have been in a band instead to help writing duties), Bugg is always marketed as Diet-Gallagher; headline grabbing, giving zero fucks and simply trying to make a name for himself against the same five people who write the majority of songs in the top forty (seriously folks, Google it).

A Few Words on... Revere - Man of Atom EP

In their ever evolving change of sound, Man of Atom is Revere's jump away from gypsy carnival fanfare and indie-rock into the mostly unknown territory of more electronica and dance influences (I say mostly as their cover of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence serves as a nice precursor to their sound here).

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Review

In the buildup to the release of A Moon Shaped Pool, the video for Daydreaming had Thom Yorke walking through twenty-three doors, likely referencing his past relationship with longtime partner Rachel Owens of twenty-three years before the song ends on a back masked and heavily distorted call of "half of my life".

It'd be easy to blame a traumatic breakup and death of producer Nigel Godrich's father during the time between The King of Limbs and now, but Yorke and Godrich were involved in a solo album and a side-project release whilst the other band members also continued to expand their solo discographies so, before listening to the album, I wondered why it took five years and whether, much like the extended break between In Rainbows and TKoL, whether it was worth the wait.

Worst to Best Radiohead Albums

After years of waiting, nothing came. Until last week when all hell broke loose in the best use of using opaque in living memory.

Yes folks, Radiohead are back with their latest, as of now, untitled ninth album. After a five year long absence which has seen Coldplay release three albums, the Marvel cinematic universe finish it's first and second phases and inexplicably; this once rarely read opinion piece blog mostly focus on rarely read music reviews.

Star Fox Zero Review

When you think Nintendo franchises, you’d immediately be drawn to pick Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong as your holy trio, possibly Metroid if you correctly agree that the series outings on the SNES and GameCube were masterpieces.

Worst to Best Weezer Albums

Weezer have always been a running joke in the music press. A band that had an unbelievable start in the mid-nineties before crashing, trying a more mainstream sound and failing miserable with a sadly accurate period dubbed the decade of decline.

Sure, frontman Rivers Cuomo still sounds like a lovelorn twentysomething fresh off the campus scene over twenty years since the band's debut album and, whilst the band should be applauded for at least trying new things, they're undoubtedly at their strongest when sticking to their formula of killer riffs and nerdy lyrics.

A Few Words on... Animal Collective - Painting With

Whilst Animal Collective's last album did become a grower in the surprising amount of time between it's release and their latest, album ten Painting With sees the band drift further from their experimentation routes to a more formulaic brand of pop (if such a thing was possible with them).