Reviews / Album

This is an album that while raw in delivery is also clever in crafting self-reflection in the listener.

Museum has seen BPM take pause, explore their sound and find their feet to produce a sophomore release with equal measures of happiness and sorrow… because that’s what happens when you grow up.

It doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny, but Toy deserves plaudits for trying.

Album Title Goes Here is banal and clichéd. Its basic techno, house, (terrible) hip hop and dubstep for the uneducated or those with little or no appreciation of electronic music.

Fights remains steeped in Somers’ rustic take on low laments, yet it’s clear that it is also a release, a successful sojourn of the self.

Sad Summer Hits proves that Texas Tea is a veritable institution.

Poliça have proven themselves as inimitably listenable, a multi-layered experiment that knows and understands what it means to be making pop music.

Unremittingly beautiful.

Banks has its moments, but as a complete body of work it doesn’t hold enough edge or depth to really shake the idea that you’re just listening to some strange Interpol B-sides.

While there are small highlights along the way (notably the single Looking Hot), this is for the most part a disappointing comeback album.

This collection could have been a complete debacle if handled in the wrong manner, but all involved have invested enough of themselves to ultimately make it a solid collection of songs reflecting the innate drama of the male/female dichotomy.