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Track round-up (19th April).

The blog is back, maybe. Lockdown is boring me, so may as well start again. This might just be a couple posts, or I might continue to do it weekly, I’m not too sure. That said, welcome back to my track round up! I’ll be looking at some of the tracks released the week ofContinue reading “Track round-up (19th April).”

My album of the year.

Tyler, The Creator – IGOR. You don’t need me to tell you why to listen to this album. I could go on for hours and hours, and I planned to, but it’s placement on this list should be enough. If you have 40 minutes, a dark room without distraction and a good set of headphones,Continue reading “My album of the year.”

My no. 2 release of the year.

Beabadoobee – Space Cadet. The 90s are back. Kind of. Beabadoobee is a sort-of solo project sort-of band fronted by Beatrice Kristi Laus. Bea wears her influences on her baggy sleeve with her lush signature mixture of 90s alternative music and more contemporary indie elements. This new release infuses some grungier aspects into her sound;Continue reading “My no. 2 release of the year.”

My no. 3 favourite album of the year.

Lotus Eater – Social Hazard. Hailing from the less-than-glamorous streets of Glasgow, five piece metal outfit Lotus Eater have turned heads in recent years with a signature sound incorporating some of the industrial and experimental aspects of Nu-metal with more contemporary flavours of death-core and metal-core. But their sound goes farther than that. It hasContinue reading “My no. 3 favourite album of the year.”

My 4th favourite release of 2019

Oliver Tree – Do You Feel Me? I have very little to say about this album, and that isn’t a negative. The less you know about Oliver Tree the better. Oliver Tree is weird. His music is weird, his personality is weird; everything is one ginormous continuous joke and it’s awesome. This newest album ‘DoContinue reading “My 4th favourite release of 2019”

My 5th favourite release of 2019.

Denzel Curry – ZUU. Denzel Curry is a rapper from Miami, Florida. After his beautifully conceptual and encapsulating 2018 masterpiece ‘TA13OO’, an album that has become a personal favourite of mine for its experimental soundscapes and intriguing narrative concept, (splitting the album into three acts: light, grey and dark) I have clung to Instagram forContinue reading “My 5th favourite release of 2019.”

My 10th – 6th favourite releases of the year.

Welcome to my picks for my 10th to 6th favourite releases of the year. Listed here are the releases that I enjoyed the most from this year, emphasis on the word ‘enjoyed’. This is not an objective list, nor will my picks for numbers 5-1 be. These are purely what I found myself listening toContinue reading “My 10th – 6th favourite releases of the year.”

Updated post schedule (until end of year).

Hello all, apologies for my radio-silence over the past week, but I have been preparing the count down to my choice for release of the year! These releases are chosen purely from what I enjoyed the most this year, not what is technically the most proficient. These are all subjective. The new schedule will beContinue reading “Updated post schedule (until end of year).”

Weekly track round up (1st Dec).

Welcome to another weekly round up, featuring me giving my thoughts on some of my favourite and least favourite tracks from the week beginning the 25th. This week has been very dry. Especially from my personal radar, there have been very few new releases that have grabbed my attention enough for me to give myContinue reading “Weekly track round up (1st Dec).”

Don’t you (forget about Bea).

Indie singer/songwriter comes out with cover of Simple Minds classic. (Yes, I understand that is a cringey title. Let’s just move past it) Beabadoobee has exploded onto the scene in the last two years. Having two great EPs under her belt, the most recently released of the two, ‘Space Cadet’ being one of my favouriteContinue reading “Don’t you (forget about Bea).”