Album Review: Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
With ‘Boys & Girls’ being one of the runaway successes of 2012, Alabama Shakes’ follow-up was always going to be faced with high expectations. Any bands’ sophomore album is always….
Category: Reviews
Album Review: Lace Weeper – As The Crow Flies
Lace Weeper formed in 2011, and have released an EP every year since then. Now, we look at their first full-length album, ‘As The Crow Flies’. Wicklow is currently known….
Single Review: Amano – Skies
The inevitably rising Kerry star releases her debut single, ‘Skies’, and it’s wonderful. Amano has been building on a respectable fan base on YouTube due to incredible covers including songs by Ed….
Live Review: Mind Riot – Whelans, Dublin – 09/04/15
With over two decades of experience, Mitchelstown’s Mind Riot finally played their first Dublin headline show in one of the city’s hottest music venues, Whelans. Whelans has seen a lot….
Live Review: The Qemists – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
There are so many things to hate about a Monday. With the inevitability of going back to work or school after a couple short days of partying and freedom, it….
Music Video Review: Flying Lotus – Ready Err Not
Filled with a plethora of interesting sounds intricately laid out, the corresponding video for Flying Lotus’ Ready Err Not, leaves you wondering how it all fits together. Yet if you….
Album Review: Aureate Gloom – Of Montreal
Having listened to this album on repeat for two days, I feel both gratified and misled. Like Odysseus wrestling with Proteus on the sands, at the beginning of this experience,….
The Old Dirty Brasstards @ Brooklyn Bowl
Tonight’s Brooklyn Bowl is a great venue based at the back of The O2. An American style bar/ restaurant and bowling alley, an ace place that plays Queen, Guns and….
Album Review: Callisto – Secret Youth
“Art should be not branded,” the appropriately named keyboardist Arto Karvonen opined back in 2006, and, indeed, this assertion could well become the band’s motto. Consistently surprising both their followers….
Live Review: First Aid Kit – Manchester, 02 Apollo
First Aid Kit relished the pleasure of releasing a critically and commercially successful third album in 2014. On top of that, their current world tour gives the impression that the….