Reviews / Album

This album is a delicious meal of jazz and hip hop, with side orders of blues and funk.

Clutching for times past is probably understandable. But sadly, it’s often dated, or worse, a faded pastiche.

Sigur Rós have created their own universe that no one will ever be able to emulate, and Valtari is an elegiac entry into that world, one that will stand the test of time.

Despite some great moments, there is a sense of disconnection between the vocals and the music, plus it just doesn’t pack as much Ditto as is required.

Adelaide offers their dose of brutality.

Age shall not weary them, and Patti Smith is anything but weary.

Dedicated is a great album and reminds us how influential Cropper has been.

For the most part Trust sound like the dark side of Pet Shop Boys or a psycho-sexual Erasure with only Alfons’ voice taking the music to a different and unsettling place.

This is an outfit going from strength to strength, it’s true musical mastery to take something morbid and frightening and make it so easy on the ears from start to finish.