Gorillaz - Humanz Review

To say the world, let alone just the music industry has changed dramatically since 2010 is an understatement.

Disney was earning megabucks with films, only it wasn't superheroes and Star Wars, Robbie Williams rejoined Take That to starve off the midlife crisis on mum's everywhere, Suede and Pulp got their bands back together in the fall of Oasis dying the previous year and, linking us back to why you're here in the first place, it was the last time virtual band Gorillaz released not one, not three, but two albums.

In the gap between The Fall and now, Albarn has kept busy, reuniting his original moneymaking band Blur to a surprisingly good return with The Magic Whip, he brought out a sombre solo album which again, was pretty good and, for Gorillaz fans, he got into an argument with Gorillaz' other half Jamie Hewlett and subsequently put the band on hiatus, possibly for keeps.

Album Rankings for 2016

Another year, another list because everyone loves lists.

A Few Words on... Feeder - All Bright Electric

Back in 2014, Grant Nicholas released an uninspired and dull solo album that only fanned the flames for a return of Feeder, even album after album of meddling returns.

The band's ninth studio album All Bright Electric again asks whether Feeder can return to their glory days of the decades prior or simply settle with pleasing their rabid fanbase.

Lady Gaga - Joanne Review

One of my favourite reviews I've ever written was on Lady Gaga's last album ARTPOP. Whilst at the time I was besieged with a bad album (along with a few interruptions from telephone scammers), it appears I wasn't the only one who thought the album was pretty dire.

But with every cloud, the silver lining was ARTPOP inspired me to do something different and, because of how bad it was, I had ample material to draw upon, even as I hammered away with the album still making it's first play.

A Few Words on... King of Leon - WALLS

Whilst Kings of Leon have been nothing short of a major success story (with five consecutive number one's in the UK anyway), whether it's their more mainstream sound or the fact that their last two albums have been progressively decreasing in quality has rubbed people up the wrong way.

Pixies - Head Carrier Review

Back in 2014, Pixies released their first album in over two decades without their original bassist to middling reception. Not me however, I really liked Indie Cindy and still listen to it from begining to end when I need a forty-five minute burst to the ear drums.

Later that year, the band released an additional track for Record Store Day called Women of War which I absolutely adored and, whilst a hold over from Indie Cindy, it gave me hope that there was more to come from the band and, just over two years later, my prayers were answered.

Wild Beasts - Boy King Review

Despite being the band behind two of my album's of the year, I never found the time to review the past two Wild Beasts albums, even though, no surprises, they're one of my absolute favourite bands, ever.

Best described as Kate Bush's eccentricities with David Bowie at his most flamboyant and moulded into indie-rock, the Kendal four-piece have come far from their baroque-pop debut but still retain all the gratuitous amount of clever wordplay and vocal performances that craft them as a strange but unique band amongst their more generic compadres.