Album review: Ho99o9 – Tomorrow We EscapeAnarchic duo Ho99o9 are more focussed and exacting than ever on explosive and surprisingly personal third album, Tomorrow We Escape.
Album review: Starset – SilosWait ’til the neighbours are out and get into orbit with this fifth instalment of cinematic genius from futurist alt.rockers Starset.
Album review: Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage‘Moancore’ progenitors Not Enough Space make room for themselves in the metalcore scene on fiery debut.
Album review: Maruja – Pain To PowerSurely one of the year’s most important records: immersive soundscapes and spiritual healing fuel righteous protest on debut album from jazz-punks Maruja.
Album review: Die Spitz – Something To ConsumePunk, thrash and noise-rock collide head-first as relentless Texas troublemakers Die Spitz present a debut album of unpredictable mayhem.
Album review: I See Stars – The WheelI See Stars let the universe guide them through hard times on their first album in nearly a decade.
Album review: The Rasmus – WeirdoUnflappable ’00s chart stars The Rasmus bounce back with tuneful, layered album of professionally steered soft rock.
Album review: Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me“Like latter-day Parkway Drive if someone peeled off all their skin”: Lorna Shore plot a course to the top of the metal mountain with ferocious fifth album.
Album review: FAUN – HexGerman neofolk veterans FAUN weave poppy hooks from pagan memory on bewitching 12th album Hex.
Album review: Black Satellite – AftermathBlack Satellite’s second album wants to be knife-sharp, and sometimes succeeds, but ends up feeling bloated…
Album review: Blessthefall – GallowsBeau Bokan and co.’s metalcore leaves you wanting metal-more, for various reasons, on Blessthefall’s seventh album.
Film review: The Conjuring: Last RitesOne last fright? The Conjuring comes to a close with decent but disappointingly un-bonkers final hurrah.
Album review: Faetooth – LabyrinthineLos Angeles-based ‘fairy doomsters’ Faetooth fill the void with even more dark atmosphere on second album.
Album review: La Dispute – No One Was Driving The CarModern malaise and technological over-reliance weigh heavy on the densely layered, subtly devastating new masterpiece from La Dispute.
The big review: Supersonic 2025Feeling Supersonic! Brum hosts three days of the weird and wonderful as Backxwash, Witch Club Satan, Death Goals and more hit the city’s annual celebration of musical freakery.
Album review: grandson – INERTIAJordan Benjamin’s live-wired third album paints a scathing portrait of permacrisis – and he sounds better than ever.
