Reviews / Album

The conceptual scene is set, on the stunning title track and opener, as looped samples and spoken-word head a mounting crescendo, which detonates into a fury of controlled riffs and mechanical blast beats that are systematically scrutinised by a scanning synth beam.

Tiny Spiders is a deceptive album in that it succeeds through its simplistic mission statement

Yellow & Green takes itself so seriously that it completely ignores rock’n’roll’s intrinsic sense of hedonism and fun.

A Is For Alpine is an assured and polished debut,

It’s also proof of how strong Salter has become without an engine room behind him to provide the requisite heft and bluster

If you don’t buy into the theatre of Herring’s vocals and the emotiveness of the music, you’ll miss the point entirely

King Con is at risk of sounding too samey and by the end of the album it’s as if you’ve crawled off a merry-go-round after eating too much cotton candy

What makes Nas one of the greatest hip hop artists ever is the ability to present a narrative with crystal clarity while never denting the overdub of emotion; menace, regret, elation, reproach.

Empra puts a unique spin on somewhat generic and familiar musical structures...