Anna Rose, Journalist

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Bench Press - Not The Past, Can't Be The Future

"An enigma of a release that... still manages to penetrate the eardrums and leave a suitably filthy residue."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: The Saboteurs - Help Us Stranger

"Poetically profound, melodically mad, [and] instrumentally ingenious."

Features / Music

Baroness: The Rehabilitating Feeling Of Airing Grievances With Yourself In Public

John Dyer Baizley of heavy-metal outfit Baroness explains to Anna Rose how the band were driven forward with their fifth album 'Gold & Grey' by a kind of "weird anxiety".

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Chris Shiflett - Hard Lessons

"[S]imple story, basic chords, no frills, all thrills."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing

"[Only Gallagher] could get away with something so cosmically conflicting."

Live Review: Karnivool

"[A]s tight and as relevant as ever."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds

"Dry and uninspiring."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Jimmy Barnes - My Criminal Record

"Jimmy Barnes ticks all the boxes as a singer, songwriter, and true blue Aussie."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Eat Your Heart Out - Florescence

"[Eat Your Heart Out's] music will appeal to everyone."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Little May - Blame My Body

"An unapologetic and powerful release."

Live Review: Sevendust, Red Hook, Reliqa

"Immerse yourself in their music, and you’ll come out feeling something more than human."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Local Natives - Violet Street

"Instead of being a rich Tim Tam of flavour and experience... all the band seem to come up with are soggy biscuits."

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