Naaman Zhou, Journalist

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Various - Rice Is Nice Mixtape Volume II

"It’s an angular, lo-fi bundle held together with tape, a series of uniques rubbing abrasive shoulders"

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Mary Lambert -- Heart On My Sleeve

"Lambert saturates her record with anthemic ballads, making it powerful but sometimes unmemorable."

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Album Review: Microwave Jenny -- Microwave Jenny & The Six Song EP

"Made of very discrete, quantifiable parts, the EP always feels like everything is in its place."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Deena - Black Cat

"This is a singular talent wrapped in common foliage."

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Album Review: Tom Lark - Tom Lark

"A stark admission that Lark needs more arrows to his quiver."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Meghan Trainor - Title

"Digestible despite all good sense."

Features / Music

The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Naaman Zhou

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Various - Sounds Of The 80s

"Sounds Of The 80s is uninspiring."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Bertie Blackman - The Dash

"While the appeal of The Dash is undeniable, it’s also less unique."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Broods - Evergreen

Their debut is devoid of missteps, hesitancy or anything wobbly-legged

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Album Review: Emma Heeney - After The Fireworks

It’s a record about regret and missing out – the sense of an ending in a few soft-strunmed chords.

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