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To mark my absence, I thought I would restart the new year with one of my favourite albums of 2020. Future Nostalgia was released 27th...

A Shiver Down Your Spine is the first Halloween EP from South West London three-piece Bosco Bosco (so good they named it twice). This is...

4:44 is the thirteenth album by legendary rap mogul Shawn Carter, a.k.a. JAY-Z. Released in 2017, it was his follow up to 2013’s...

The Young are a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed four-piece hailing from Staines. Putting the rock back into indie rock are brothers Alfie...

To celebrate the release of their latest track ‘Ydekwiws – Live’, I thought I would revisit Pink Mirrors debut single ‘Hook’. Released...

Performance and Cocktails is the second album by Cardiff outfit Stereophonics. Released in 1999, it came two years after their...

GANG is the eighth mixtape released by UK drill star Headie One. Released in April, it follows on from his highest-charting release...

Jar of Flies is the third studio EP released by Seattle grunge outfit Alice in Chains. The EP came out two years after their second and...

Guts (Le Bienheureux) is the 2007 debut solo album by French electronic beat-maker Guts. Guts, pseudonym of Fabrice Henri, started his...

Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. A man that is famed not only for...

The New Abnormal: the sixth album by indie powerhouse The Strokes, and indeed their first since 2013’s The Comedown Machine. The Strokes...

It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot is the 1998 debut album from New York rapper DMX. DMX (born Earl Simmons) grew up in Yonkers, New York and...

Soom T is an Indian-Scottish ragga singer born and raised in a deprived district of Glasgow. Soom T, stage name of Sumati Bhardwaj,...

It was April 1980, an astounding month in a defining year for metal. Week 1: Saxon release their second album Wheels of Steel which has...

What Kinda Music is the sophomore studio album by South London’s finest Tom Misch and is one that fans of his early Soundcloud releases...

In late-2005, Lily Allen was slowly rising through the ranks of the UK pop scene due to her popularity on MySpace. Rewind just a few...

This is Happening is the third album by Brooklyn based electro/indie/punk outfit LCD Soundsystem, fronted and formed by James Murphy –...

Blame it on Baby is the third studio album by Charlotte rapper DaBaby, and indeed his third album in just 13 months. This gives the...

What the Dead Men Say is the ninth studio album by Florida metal group Trivium who have just entered their 21st year of existence and...

I thought I would start off my blogging experience by reviewing a British classic, Urban Hymns – a quintessential album for any indie...