MacDara reviews Spacemad, the debut album from :Hounds: which is due for release on 1st January.
Dara Higgins revisits 2016 releases from Julia Jacklin, Tim Burgess, Dinosaur jr, The Divine Comedy, Mick Harvey & The Felice Brothers
'a triumph of non-understanding over literalness; of reaching and grasping and flailing in the dark and realizing you enjoy that a lot more than having an issue spelled out to you' - John Lynch on 50FootWave's Bath White
Adebisi Shank 'still exists. Only more crazy' -Niall McGuirk on This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
'It’s all beauty in song drifting on the river between joy and fear' – MacDara Conroy on Áine O’Dwyer’s Music for Church Cleaners Vol I & II
'enough layers and tangents, hidden threads amongst the songs to continually arrest the ear' - Dara Higgins on Andrew Judah's forthcoming LP, Monster
'we see what happens when the political becomes deeply personal' - Hugh McCabe on Anohni's HOPELESSNESS
Wisconsin drone artist's first LP in two years doesn't quite live up to its grand ambitions, says Ian Maleney.
"When I play the songs I forget about all this" - Niall McGuirk on Arbor Labor Union's Sub Pop debut I Hear You
"It's difficult to know how to take it really, are you being condescended to? Are you in on the joke? Is it a joke? It's pleasant to listen to anyway, but its purpose – if it has one – is difficult to divine." - Ian Maleney on Mature Themes, the new album from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.