Album Review – With You-th by Twice
I’m at least two years if not more too late to the Twice hype train. I feel as if I owe someone an apology for this fact because this kind of sugary sweet pop music sounds like it was tailor…
Reviews That Cut Deep
Reviews That Cut Deep
Lucas Allburn
Lucas Allburn is a music journalist from Cambridge, UK.
Album Review – Chapter & Verse by Gabby Barrett
I now have to acknowledge that the songwriter responsible for ‘I Hope’ and ‘The Good Ones’ actually has some talent. I have some conflicting emotions about this. For however much I’d love to cherry pick this album’s bad moments, put…
Album Review – Iechyd Da by Bill Ryder-Jones
Against rich, inviting soundscapes and some decent thematic density, Bill Ryder-Jones delivers an album that’s built for post-breakup contemplation, but unfortunately nothing else beyond that. Musically, Iechyd Da is stately and dignified, but lyrically it’s frustrated and chaotic, as if…
Album Review – Venus by Zara Larsson
‘More Than This Was’, one of the standout tracks on Zara Larsson’s new album Venus, is a breakup song about all the lingering questions that leaving someone you have given so much to might raise, including the possibility that it…
Album Review – Saviours by Green Day
There is nothing surprising about this new Green Day album, and there’s a good reason for that. Their previous record Father Of All Motherfuckers didn’t win the group much in the way critical acclaim or commercial success, so the fact…
Album Review – 2 by (G)I-DLE
All the praise that I have given (G)I-DLE in the past has a pretty major asterisk next to it. That might seem weird to say given that, in my review of this band’s 2022 album I Never Die, I proclaimed…
Album Review – Neck Deep by Neck Deep
It’s difficult to imagine an album that gives me less to say than this new Neck Deep album. The main lesson to be learned from this self-titled album is that decent hooks will only get you so far, especially if…
Album Review – She’s Back! by Mery Steel
It’s a bold title for a debut album, but She’s Back! delivers exactly what you might expect for a solid, infectious, alternative country breakup album. Pairing theatrical performances with a rollicking instrumental palette, it would honestly be a miracle if…
Album Review – Fe304: BREAK by NMIXX
NMIXX are a group with a genuinely good idea. They call it ‘Mixxpop’. The basic premise is that by taking two separate genres and combining them, you can make something fresh and new. This idea, for however interesting it might…
Album Review – American Dream by 21 Savage
21 Savage has a very clear and extremely effective formula: broad strokes stories about street life paired with an understated gritty vocal tone that implies greater sophistication that isn’t really there upon deeper examination. He even includes spoken word passages…