Mental Cruelty – Echoes Of A Forlorn Land: Album Review
Blending mythic grandeur with unrelenting brutality, Mental Cruelty continue to redefine the limits of modern deathcore.
Quick Takes – November 2026 (1): Album Reviews
Part 1 of our monthly appraisal of albums that were too good to get away. This month’s first crop includes Sundots, Dikajee and Cats In Space.
Konvent – Firesky: Album Review
Danish quartet, Konvent, return with an assured confidence on their third full length, Firesky.
Midge Ure – Chapters: Album Review
Another Midge Ure ‘best of’ collection? Surely we don’t need another version of If I Was? It turns out that we do. We really do.
Bird In The Belly – Only Dogs As Friends: Album Review
A red-top riot of newly written broadsheets from Bird In The Belly to celebrate the seamy, the sad and the dispossessed! Hallelujah!
Strange Pink – Guest Room: EP Review
Sophomore EP from Hull grunge-gaze trio, Strange Pink. Guest Room sees the band add pop and 60s-psyche sensibilities to their signature sound.
Elephant Sessions – This Place Of Ours: Album Review
Elephant Sessions go bravely forth, or fifth even, with plenty enough new to appeal and plenty enough old to entice.
Prog Rock Round Up 1 – October 2026
Recent releases that fit the ‘Prog’ label – make way for some musings on new albums by Pure Reason Revolution, Kavus Torabi, The Pineapple Thief and Lesoir.
Hector Gannet – The Great Shakedown: Album Review
Ring those bells! Bright and breezy brass from North Shields, if tempered by a folk-rock confessional style that builds together both unexpectedly and auspiciously.
Danxgerous – Old Soul: Album Review
A masterful fusion of alt-folk, dream-pop and indie-rock to confront her insecurities and search for a way home, on the Danxgerous debut album, Old Soul.
Keith Hudson – Melody Maker: Album Review
Long overdue anthology of the influential work of Keith Hudson – Jamaica’s ‘dark Prince of Reggae.’
Quick Takes – October 2026: Album Reviews
Our monthly round up of albums includes Europe, Katie Knipp, Sam Horan , Bamako Express, Kin Hana, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Arborist.
Ministry – Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery): Album Review
Ministry return for their final hurrah. Hate To Go sees old and familiar faces in the fold for Al Jourgensen’s goodbye.
ISQ – The Silence Is Deafening: Album Review
The eagerly-awaited fifth album from ISQ – The Irene Serra Quartet takes its inspiration from women’s lives – the ones lived loudly and the ones lived in careful silence.
Mushroombeard – Mushroombeard: Album Review
If you like psychedelic, progressive, other-wordly concept albums, you’re going to absolutely fall in love with Mushroombeard