‘It’s big, it’s dumb, but it’s a whole lot of fun, and exactly what you’d expect it to be’ - MacDara Conroy on disaster epic San Andreas
A roundup of new releases from Alaskan, Loch Ness Mouse & His Sweet Surprise (aka former Green Party TD / pottymouth Paul Gogarty).
'Striking the right balance between forward thinking right-on-ness and inclusive just-want-to-dance-ness' - John Lynch on Shamir's Ratchet
After the disappointment of Super 8, Watchingcattle gave Steven Spielberg a second chance to see if he could redeem himself with The Adventures Of Tintin. Spolier alert: He didn't.
"It is no easy album to parse, to sum up with a quick line and a full stop. The stories in the album, and around it, resist that on all sides." - Ian Maleney on Pelt's Effigy.
‘It shouldn’t work - a heist thriller with car chases that’s also a stealth musical?’ - MacDara Conroy on Baby Driver
War for the Planet of the Apes is ‘a superlative cap on a genre trilogy with qualities far above its station’ says MacDara Conroy
"an aural guide book, one that’s living and breathing and in constant motion" - Dara Higgins on Fiona Brice's Postcards From
"The Promise, beautifully shot and authentically dressed, is a sprawling epic, in the grand manner" says Dara Higgins
Call Of The Void's debut Dragged Down A Dead End Path is a 'relentless torrent of downtuned doom grind' says MacDara Conroy