Ice-T’s rap-metal outfit is most famous for 1992’s “Cop Killer”, from their debut album, which caused outrage at the time and had to be removed following heated criticism from many prominent figures i…
Album review: Grimes’ “Miss Anthropocene” is a disappointment compared to earlier works
The first big disappointment of the year. Grimes has gone from strength to strength and got better with every album, but it couldn’t have lasted forever. Could it? It’s a little saddening to have foll…
Album Review: Green Day – “Father of All…”
Re-listening to Green Day’s oeuvre recently left me with the same sinking feeling that I’ve had re-listening to Muse and The Killers, a feeling that the bands which seemed so brilliant in my adolescen…
Album Review: Drive-By Truckers – “The Unraveling”
Possibly the greatest band whom Pitchfork consider it beneath them to review, Drive-By Truckers aren’t just an American Band (the name of their wonderful last album), they’re a great America…
Album Review: that dog. – “Old LP”
One painful incident of media sexism is an article about this band that was cruelly headlined “That Dad”. The snide implication was that the members of that dog. had only made it to a recording booth …
Album Review: Leonard Cohen – “Thanks for the Dance”
I was in the minority who believed that Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker was a stronger end-of-life album than David Bowie’s Blackstar in 2016, and I stand by that opinion now. Deep, dark,…
Album Review: DJ Shadow – “Our Pathetic Age”
DJ Shadow is one of the indisputable masters of electronic music. His 1996 breakout Endtroducing….. is still a landmark in creative sampling, a dizzyingly dense collage of esoteric musical refer…