Kings of Leon - EP #2 (Album Review)

It’s been a prolific period for Kings of Leon, fresh from strong reviews for their most recent album ‘Can We Please Have Fun’ and several collaborations with Zach Bryan. Their first EP in more than 20 years marks a return to the raw sound of their early work and, while it might only amount to four tracks, it shows the group haven’t wholly abandoned the formula behind Molly’s Chambers for stadium anthems.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 10 November 2025

Witch Fever - FEVEREATEN (Album Review)

Photo: Frank Fieber Three years on from their debut ‘Congregation’, Manchester quartet Witch Fever have returned with a record that’s both more refined and more in hock to doom-metal — ‘FEVEREATEN’ brims with creativity, catharsis, and a sense of atmosphere. Amid its tumultuous guitars, brooding instrumentals, and sense of rage, it showcases new depth that keeps the listener on their toes.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Friday, 07 November 2025

Creeper - Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death (Album Review)

Photo: Harry Steel While Creeper’s 2017 debut LP ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’ propelled the horror-punk band towards the mainstream, they haven’t sought to replicate its crossover blueprint in the intervening years. Their latest effort, ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death’, is a tantalising theatrical successor to the critically acclaimed ‘Sanguivore’, taking musical inspiration from heavy metal legends Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Written by: Issy Herring | Date: Friday, 07 November 2025

Skullcrusher - And Your Song Is Like A Circle (Album Review)

Photo: Adam Alonzo Skullcrusher’s ‘And Your Song Is Like A Circle’ is a gorgeous, shimmering slice of folk with layered, ghostly harmonies. With songs built around elegant piano and acoustic guitar, plus scattered electronics and beats, New York singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine creates a dreamscape as she probes the way grief turns itself out, the feeling itself becoming as real and substantial as what’s been lost.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Thursday, 06 November 2025

Cat Burns - How To Be Human (Album Review)

Following a Mercury Prize nomination for 2024’s ‘Early Twenties’, Cat Burns confronts grief and heartbreak with unflinching honesty on her second album. Across 16 tracks, ‘How To Be Human’ documents the loss of her grandfather and post-breakup devastation alongside the blossoming hope of new love, trading sonic ambition for emotional directness.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Wednesday, 05 November 2025

Claire Rousay - A Little Death (Album Review)

Photo: Katherine Squier Fittingly, given its Halloween release date, ‘A Little Death’ is one of those rare albums that you don’t really notice at first, before it creeps up on you and worms its way inside your body and, finally, your soul.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Tuesday, 04 November 2025

Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Album Review)

Photo: Autumn De Wilde On ‘Everybody Scream’, it feels like Florence Welch has become more myth than person, more folk goddess than a singer in a timeless band. Boasting an enchanting theme tightly woven like medieval tapestry, here Florence walks candlelit corridors while reciting a soul-bearing odyssey. The record’s Halloween release date is surely no coincidence as the band gleefully leans into imagery of witches and sorcery, perhaps inspiring the formation of a coven or two.

Written by: James Palaczky | Date: Tuesday, 04 November 2025

The Charlatans - We Are Love (Album Review)

Photo: Cat Stevens The Charlatans have been mainstays on the UK indie scene since the early ‘90s, with hits like One to Another and The Only One I Know among 22 Top 40 singles. Off the back of that, the band continue to be festival favourites, but they have been surprisingly quiet of late when it comes to original material. 

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 03 November 2025

Circa Waves - Death & Love Pt.2 (Album Review)

Photo: Polocho Released at the start of the year, Circa Waves’ ‘Death & Love Pt. 1’ found Kieran Shudall mulling over starting from scratch after his lowest point and a brush with mortality. Its follow up, though, marks a new wave of expression for the Liverpool band — it’s a bubbling, Strokes-inspired payoff to a period of hard graft.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Monday, 03 November 2025

Demi Lovato - It's Not That Deep (Album Review)

Photo: Paris Mumpower Demi Lovato’s ninth studio album is a refreshing departure in sound and substance, embracing techno, dance-pop, and EDM with a barrage of infectious hooks and thumping instrumentals. Newly married and entering a new chapter of her life, Lovato is seemingly at her happiest and most comfortable creatively on ‘It’s Not That Deep’, skipping around any desire to be diaristic or relive too many of her traumas. After all, so much of her personal life has been, unfairly, made so very public.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Friday, 31 October 2025

Sigrid - There's Always More That I Could Say (Album Review)

Photo: Charlotte Alex Having established herself as modern Scandi-pop royalty, Sigrid could have played it safe. Instead, her third album ‘There’s Always More That I Could Say’ prioritises creative vision over commercial formula, pivoting towards noughties indie-pop while maintaining her pop instincts.

Written by: Jack Press | Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025

Brandi Carlile - Returning To Myself (Album Review)

Photo: Collier Schorr  Brandi Carlile has been a star of Americana for more than two decades, but interest in her work in the UK has reached a new level after the release of ‘Who Believes in Angels?’, her hit collaboration album with Elton John. Not content with standing still, she returns here with a solo record that contains her trademark powerhouse vocals and distinctive take on country-rock.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025

They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - Lotto (Album Review)

Photo: Brian Karlsson After flirting with electronics and ambient sounds, experimental Philadelphia shoegazers They Are Gutting a Body of Water go back to basics on ‘Lotto’, their fourth studio album. It’s an uncompromising, unflinching, confessional record with menacing, fuzzy, scratchy guitars. Clocking at just over 27 minutes, there’s not an ounce of fat here.

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Sudan Archives - The BPM (Album Review)

Photo: Yanran Xiong Sudan Archives thrives in contradiction — bold yet self-conscious, experimental yet rooted in instinct. On her third album she trades the sun-kissed exuberance of ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’ for something grittier and more nocturnal: a breakup record that sweatily dances its way through the rebuild. It’s a versatile and cathartic record that may well break the LA violinist-singer-producer into the mainstream.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025

Of Monsters and Men - All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade (Album Review)

Photo: Eva Schram Of Monsters and Men have been at the vanguard of indie-folk since the release of their debut album in 2011, accompanied by their enduring single Little Talks. The Icelandic group now returns with their first album since 2019: ‘All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade’. It’s immediately obvious from Television Love that this is a return with purpose, immediately appearing more introspective and darker in sound.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Monday, 27 October 2025

Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (Album Review)

Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski More than 20 years after Soulwax helped wire rock music to the club mainframe they return with ‘All Systems Are Lying’, a record that, like Daft Punk's ‘Random Access Memories’, feels both ferociously modern and defiantly handmade.

Written by: Jacob Brookman | Date: Friday, 24 October 2025

Tame Impala - Deadbeat (Album Review)

Photo: Julian Klincewicz Kevin Parker’s fifth Tame Impala album is a swing and a miss. ‘Deadbeat’ is one of the more versatile works in the psych-pop star’s catalogue, with shifting genre tropes throughout its tracks, repeatedly offering something different with big riffs and heavy drums. There are a few excellent songs here, but they’re dragged down by many more that amount to lacklustre drum machines and lyrics that sound tired.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Friday, 24 October 2025

Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot (Album Review)

Photo: Rankin On their fifth album in the space of five years, avant-garde indie-rockers Bar Italia are unusually attuned to commercial sounds. On ‘Some Like It Hot’ they have taken notes from the early 2000s post-punk and garage-rock revivals, with hints of Britpop, folk, and shoegaze sprinkled throughout.

Written by: Sarah Taylor | Date: Thursday, 23 October 2025

The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre (Album Review)

Photo: Laura Marie Cieplik The Last Dinner Party’s debut album ‘Prelude to Ecstacy’ helped to establish them as one of the UK’s most unique bands, setting them on a path towards sold out shows and headline festival sets. Hot on its heels they have returned with a confident twist on their baroque-pop sound in the form of ‘From The Pyre’, a second LP that takes their established blueprints and doubles down rather than offering anything more versatile.

Written by: Laura Mills | Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (Album Review)

Now that hardcore is as popular as it’s ever been, the first half of the 2020s has given rise to a host of broadly successful post-hardcore (to flagrantly misuse that term) genre fusions. Militarie Gun play an alt-rock-hardcore blend, throwing a whole spectrum of influences, such as emo, shoegaze and even Britpop in with their harder-edged tendencies. 

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025