Spectreview
Here you’ll find a collection of music reviews using the Spectreview system. We cover everything from popular releases to local music.
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Spectreview: Tourist Activities: Off My Mind
Tourist Activities debut EP is an enjoyable, breezy traipse through the shoegaze textures and jangly indie rock of yore.
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Spectreview: non stick – a robust personal mythology
non stick’s a robust personal mythology aims to be gleefully repulsive and succeeds.
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Spectreview: Dave – Psychodrama
Dave’s considerable gift with a pen lifts the ham-fisted story arc of Psychodrama onto a higher plane.
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Spectreview: Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile
Helado Negro’s This Is How You Smile radiates pure, effusive love.
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Spectreview: William Basinski – On Time Out Of Time
William Basinski’s new high-concept diptych of drones and frequencies culled from merging black holes acts as a canvas for meditations on human extinction and communication decay.
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Spectreview: Rabbitkeeper – Rabbitkeeper
Rabbitkeeper’s wide-ranging self-titled album plays like an indie record but attacks with the force of a tsunami.
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Spectreview: Wild Powwers – Skin
Wild Powwers visceral Skin presents a strong argument that grunge still has potential in today’s rock environment.
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Spectreview: Little Simz – GREY Area
Little Sims’ GREY Area is streamlined and ferocious, proving her position as one of the most impressive rappers in the London scene.
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Spectreview: Weezer – Weezer (Black Album)
Weezer’s sixth eponymous album is embarrassing at best and vaguely offensive at worst.
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Spectreview: Bil Palmer – Welcome to Concrete
Bil’s Palmer’s quietly released collection of experimental indie folk is also quietly brilliant.