Emily Mackay

Album review: ESG – Dance To The Beat Of ESG (Fire)

Three greatest hits compilations in a decade might seem excessive, but ESG are justifiably about thrice as relevant as any of the other bands...

Album Review: Kort – Invariable Heartache (City Slang)

Seemingly incongruous pairings have illuminated popular music for decades, from a drugged-out David Bowie duetting with a doddering Bing Crosby on TV to Isobel...

Album review: The Phantom Band – The Wants (Chemikal Underground)

With all their talk of man’s inevitable demise and their pride in self-constructed instruments, Glasgow’s Phantoms play down their wry post-apocalyptic pop as if...

Album Review: Ash – A-Z Vol 2 (Atomic Heart)

Ash long ago fell prey to the curse of being consistently good, and therefore boring. Cunningly, they reinvented themselves as masters of the no-concept...

Album Review: Teebs – Ardours (Brainfeeder)

It isn’t surprising to learn that electronica artist Teebs, hailing from Los Angeles’ Chino Hills, is also a devoted painter. On ‘Ardours’, the 23-year-old...

Album Review: Jimmy Eat World – Invented (DGC)

If there’s one thing that this Arizonan four-piece have been masters of since their inception in the early ’90s, it’s consistently possessing the over-bearing...

Album Review: Wolf People – Steeples (Jagjaguwar)

The first British band to be signed to fierce-as-its-name US label Jagjaguwar, Wolf People hail firmly from the stable’s traditional territory of righteously bearded,...

Album Review: DMX Krew – Wave Funk (Rephlex)

As Ed Upton’s work title DMX Krew suggests, his original obsession was breakdance-orientated electro but that has widened out into a love for old...

Album Review: The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Jesus Wept (Damaged Goods)

If you’re gonna write Springsteen-esque paeans to runnin’ away (‘40 Days & Nights’) or sing lines like “Why can’t mankind just get along?” (‘Master/Mistress’)...

Live review: Gorillaz, Madison Square Garden, New York

For all that he’s achieved musically in the last 20 years, Damon Albarn has rarely seemed comfortable in his own skin. The nauseating Mockney...
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