Jenny On Holiday - Quicksand Heart (Album Review)

Photo: Steve Gullick The New Year period can provide a strange mix of emotions. We all have a resolution-making, gym-starting posi side, as well as an anxious, ‘what fresh hell is this?’ mood, particularly when viewing the news cycle of early 2026.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Zach Bryan - With Heaven on Top (Album Review)

Since releasing his first album in 2019, Zach Bryan’s earnest, unique spin on Americana has earned him acclaim and a rapidly growing fanbase. As prolific as he is popular, he returns with his sixth album, ‘With Heaven on Top’, which delivers more of what fans have come to love across 25 tracks, clocking in at over an hour. 

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Conway The Machine - You Can't Kill God With Bullets (Album Review)

Conway the Machine is not one for taking a rest. It’s where the ‘Machine’ part of his moniker comes from, after all, and as he continues his run of releasing an album or mixtape every year since 2014, it becomes clearer year on year what a supreme talent he is.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026

The Cribs - Selling A Vibe (Album Review)

Photo: Steve Gullick Brothers Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman are no strangers to mixing a pop sensibility with garage rock, grunge and indie. It’s what earned The Cribs such a dedicated fanbase in the early noughties, and though they’ve been retrospectively pigeonholed into indie-sleaze, they have always encompassed so much more. ‘Selling A Vibe’ is no exception.

Written by: Laura Johnson | Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Alter Bridge - Alter Bridge (Album Review)

Photo: Chuck Brueckmann Hard rock luminaries Alter Bridge have been making waves for more than two decades at this point, with their 2004 debut ‘One Day Remains’ catapulting them out of Creed’s shadow towards an arena-filling identity of their own. 

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Monday, 12 January 2026

Nas and DJ Premier - Light-Years (Album Review)

Photo: Danny Clinch Spit in the air and it’ll land on someone with Nas in their list of all-time rappers. If not, it’ll land on someone with DJ Premier in their top five producers. Needless to say, their new collaborative album ‘Light-Years’ has been a hotly anticipated prospect, especially as fans have known of its existence for two decades.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Monday, 12 January 2026

Sorry - Cosplay (Album Review)

Sorry’s third album is the sound of a band fearlessly throwing off the shackles and refusing to be pigeonholed as Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen explore a diverse and overlapping range of styles, recorded with various collaborators in multiple studios. The production on ‘Cosplay’ veers from lo-fi to full-on multilayered anthems.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Monday, 05 January 2026

Fred Again.. - USB002 (Album Review)

Photo: Theo Batterham Fred Again..’s ‘USB002’ is a massive undertaking. Signalling his status as one of the world’s pre-eminent DJs, it pulls together cuts from his set into an upbeat, high-energy collection of club-tested beats. It’s versatile, with an assortment of massive artists featured across its whopping 34 songs, but the fluid project’s current incarnation doesn’t offer anything unique or particularly fresh.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Monday, 22 December 2025

Dove Ellis - Blizzard (Album Review)

Dove Ellis’s eagerly-awaited debut ‘Blizzard’ occupies two states. It’s an album that switches between sheer emotion, his vocals cracking while delivering the lyrics, and upbeat jangle, his roots in Irish folk always visible beneath it all.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Thursday, 18 December 2025

Zac Brown Band - Love & Fear (Album Review)

Photo: Tyler Lord If Zac Brown Band are aiming for a late-period Dave Matthews Band pivot — towards bigger stages, bigger feelings, a bigger sense of ‘togetherness’ — then ‘Love & Fear’ is the part where they try to turn a decade of arena muscle-memory into something spiritual and widescreen. The problem is that, for all the talk of duality, the album often confuses scale for substance, piling on glossy showpiece moments until the emotional centre buckles under the production’s weight.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Mavis Staples - Sad And Beautiful World (Album Review)

Photo: Elizabeth De La Piedra Mavis Staples stands as one of the defining and most enduring voices in gospel, R&B and soul, her legendary status assured having started singing in family group The Staple Singers more than seven decades ago. At the heart of ‘Sad and Beautiful World’, her 14th solo studio album, is that remarkable voice, which, at 86, exudes quiet gravitas and compassion, offering solace amid heartbreak. Her family were key players in the civil rights movement, and she sees familiar dangers today, vowing to stand alongside those who are fearful. Grim days call for fierce love, she says.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Tom Smith - There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn't There In The Light (Album Review)

Photo: Edith Smith Tom Smith is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Editors, releasing seven studio albums with the post-punk band since 2005. His first solo LP is a departure from the indie sounds of his day job, with ‘There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light’ incorporating elements of folk alongside his signature vocal style.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Friday, 12 December 2025

Isobel Waller-Bridge - Objects (Album Review)

Isobel Waller-Bridge has enjoyed success as a film, television and theatre composer, having previously formulated scores for Fleabag, Black Mirror and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. Written over a period of four years, her new solo album ‘Objects’ provides a sense of stillness, gaining musical inspiration from simple household objects such as a shoe or glass while forcing you to shift into the present moment.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Thursday, 11 December 2025

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Live God (Album Review)

Photo: Megan Cullen Nick Cave has spent the past decade evolving from vampiric soothsayer to gothic preacher, and ‘Live God’ feels like the document of that transformation. Captured across the Wild God Tour of 2024-25, it packages Cave’s late-career evangelism into 18 tracks that blur the lines between rock concert and secular gospel service.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Melody's Echo Chamber - Unclouded (Album Review)

Photo: Diane Sagnier ‘Unclouded’ is the latest chapter in Juliana Melody Prochet’s ongoing attempt to put her own distinctive spin on neo-psychedelia with Melody’s Echo Chamber. It is another dreamy, inviting soundscape that crams plenty of textures and rich detail into its 30-minute runtime, with many of its sub three minute tracks still painting vivid pictures.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Tuesday, 09 December 2025

Ella Eyre - Everything, In Time (Album Review)

‘Everything, in time’ is a fitting title for Ella Eyre’s first full length release in 10 years; a bold, spirited record infused with retro soul, funk and R&B vibes. Not that the years since 2015’s ‘Feline’ have been fallow. After hitting number one with her debut release, as featured artist on Rudimental’s 2013 megahit Waiting All Night, she enjoyed a run of singles chart success.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Monday, 08 December 2025

Jessie J - Don't Tease Me With A Good Time (Album Review)

Photo: Ashley Osborn  After becoming a household name in the early 2010s thanks to hits such as Price Tag, Jessie J has ridden waves of uncertainty in the wake of 2014’s ‘Sweet Talker’, which housed her last genuine smash in the form of the Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj collab Bang Bang. Some level of critical acclaim followed with ‘R.O.S.E.’, but her profile remained at a simmer. That might change with ‘Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time’, a record that’s deeply personal and accomplished.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Tuesday, 02 December 2025

Keaton Henson - Parader (Album Review)

Photo: Danielle Fricke For an artist who’s long served as one of indie-folk’s most reliable confessors, Keaton Henson sounds remarkably uncertain on ‘Parader’. But that gnawing feeling proves to be its greatest asset.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Monday, 01 December 2025

Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - What of Our Nature (Album Review)

American folk music’s heyday was the 1960s — a moment of collective yearning when Woody Guthrie’s protest spirit collided with a mass cultural awakening. Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover are acutely aware of that lineage on ‘What of Our Nature’, a record that consciously throws back to that era’s campfire radicalism while interrogating what’s happened to the country since.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025

Glitterer - erer (Album Review)

Photo: Alex Szantos Over the past few years, what began as a solitary experiment in bedroom synth-pop for Title Fight’s Ned Russin has crystallised into a fully-fledged band with real heft. Leaning into evolution with intent on their first full-length for Purple Circle Records — the new label co-owned by Russin — ‘erer’ is Glitterer’s most focused, immediate, and thematically pointed release so far.

Written by: Maddy Howell | Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025