Shatter the Standards Album Review: ECLIPSE by B2K Reunited two decades after their teen-idol run, B2K chase grown status through bedroom songs and shopping lists, and they reach it when they sing about a relationship ending. At the beginning of 2004, a few…
Tu Fawning returns with a darkly seductive wintry pop album that our reviewer calls a "a decadent carnival ride." Image: Courtesy Tu Fawning I think I remember you, or at least I think I do. You had the face of…
The Toronto singer-songwriter and cellist has shared its latest single, “In Paint,” a restless, emotionally charged exploration of the habits we struggle to break and the uncomfortable uncertainty of changing alongside someone else. And the music has plenty of tension…
David Bowie died on 10 January 2016. Within days, a grief-stricken Simon Starling had written half of an album. The rest came more slowly, composed in what the band call the longer shadow of that loss, and nearly a decade on, those…
The Four Pillars: Listen, Read, Think, Write Where Could I Go? picks up where their last release, Beg a Promise, left off. It has high energy, maintains a level of catchiness, is incredibly heartfelt, and is rich in texture. It’s…
Reviewed by Dan Barnes A brief reunion in 2012 saw the band making a few festival appearances and a short UK tour before all went silent; until now. This new EP, Big, Bad and Back, sees Little Angels as victims of…
Heavy Metal News and Reviews When I saw Replicant had a new album due on the horizon, I knew it was a no-brainer. Formed in 2014, and hailing from New Jersey, United States, Replicant have only continued to go from strength…
This album is a bit two faced. It is dark and light, night and day. Not with the style or the sound or the song writing, It’s the execution and delivery that’s got two sides. One side, it’s an excellent…
Shatter the Standards Album Review: The Fork and Knife by Skepta Seated at that table two decades into grime, Skepta writes the overwork, a friend’s addiction and an immigrant son’s anger as what the seat costs him. “My mum was…
Decay is the precise title to encapsulate the caustic sounds, the bleak atmosphere, and the crippling emotional pounding the listener absorbs. This is how you begin to end a recorded (and live, unfortunately) career. Decay, the band’s penultimate album, will…
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