Louis Pattison

Giggs – ‘Landlord’ Review

With grime topping festival bills and making serious dents in the charts, it’s easy to forget there’s a parallel strain of British street music...

Flowdan – ‘Disaster Piece’ Review

While a founding member of Roll Deep – the east London grime crew that’s seen everyone from Wiley to Dizzee, Tinchy Stryder to Skepta...

Mayhem: Meet The Band With The Wildest Story Ever Told

For the first time, a book tells the story of black metal band Mayhem from an insider’s perspective – that of bassist Necrobutcher. And...

Aphex Twin – ‘Cheetah’ Review

It’s either feast or famine in Aphexland. You’ll not hear a peep out of the Irish-born electronica maestro for a decade. Then all of...

DJ Shadow – ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ Review

‘Endtroducing’, DJ Shadow’s debut, made for one of the most innovative and cool albums of the ’90s. An instrumental hip-hop record built entirely from...

Skepta – ‘Konnichiwa’ Review

There are probably many reasons why grime, after a brief and thrilling heyday followed by a lapse into awkward pop crossover and Robbie Williams...

J Dilla – ‘The Diary’ Review

If James Dewitt Yancey has been all but canonised by a certain corner of hip hop fandom, it’s easy to see why. In part...

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – ‘This Unruly Mess I’ve Made’ Review

Being a white rapper has traditionally brought with it a certain amount of baggage. Eminem fronted out his lack of melanin with ferocious technique...

Parquet Courts – ‘Monastic Living’ EP

If you’re a bloody-minded artist of a certain stripe, success – even critical success, the kind you can’t take to the bank – can...

Sunn O))) – ‘Kannon’

For a group founded around the premise of turning heavy metal into something as slow, deep and tunes-light as possible, Seattle's SunnO))) have gone...
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