Album reviews
Suede - Antidepressants
There are records that come at you like old friends you haven’t seen in years, and, as soon as you listen, you realise they haven’t been stuck telling the same stories. Antidepressants by Suede is like that: not the return of a glorious band, but the breath of those who have crossed storms and now aren’t afraid to show their broken bones and still-beati…
Deftones - private music
There’s something both touching and absurd about watching Deftones step into 2025 like aging skaters who, instead of breaking ankles on half-pipes, are still pulling tricks no one expected them to land. Once upon a time they were the soundtrack to bedrooms where posters curled at the edges and ashtrays overflowed; now they’re an institution, the kind th…
Modern Life Is War - Life On The Moon
After more than ten years of silence, Modern Life Is War return with Life On The Moon. A title that promises orbits and revolutions, but the impact feels more like a neon-lit parking lot, melancholic like those summer nights when nothing really happens.
Prolapse - I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face
In the ’90s, continuing the thread of the previous decade, Prolapse acted as a bridge between post-punk, shoegaze, noise rock, and post-rock. The Anglo-Scottish formation combined the angular edges of Gang of Four, the theatricality of Public Image Ltd
The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The nuclear war launched by The Hives in 2000 has never stopped detonating. Back then, with Veni Vidi Vicious, the quintet from Fagersta proved that three well-placed chords could be worth more than a thousand experiments. Their electric bursts tore through radios and clubs, cementing them among the protagonists of the garage rock revival alongside the …
The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising
The myth of the English wild woman — a symbol of pagan rebellion and untamed nature — is an archetype often marginalized or romanticized. The New Eves, a Brighton-based quartet, fully embody this spirit, rejecting any confinement imposed by contemporary musical conventions. To call them simply a folk band would be reductive: their sound is a hypnotic fu…
Bush - I Beat Loneliness
They arrived late, and in the wrong place. When they broke out in ’94 with Sixteen Stone, Bush seemed like yet another British surrogate of a sound — grunge — that already had its prophets across the ocean. Too derivative for the purists, too polished for those nostalgic for Seattle’s mud. And yet, over time, they held their ground. Album after album, G…
Leo Luchini - Slug It Out
Anyone who grew up with The Downward Spiral in their ears, smashed something while listening to early Deftones, or danced in anger to a Fear Factory remix cannot stay indifferent to Slug It Out. Leo Luchini takes the noise and tension of that world — industrial, nu-metal, contaminated drum’n’bass — and reshapes it for the present. Not out of nostalgia, …
Atom Juice - Atom Juice
They come from Warsaw and present themselves as the missing link between Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker. The psych landscape may be crowded, but Atom Juice stand out with a debut that surprises through flair: within the psychedelic framework they weave elements of jazz, hard rock, funk, and cinematic storytell…