The National – I Am Easy To Find – Album Review by Killian Laher Some years ago, The National perfected a sort of stately, classy drift in their music.  Eight albums into […]

Versing – 10000 – Album Review by Killian Laher Versing are a band from Seattle, but rather than channel that city’s grunge legends, the band aim for the fuzzy delights of Sonic […]

Stuart A Staples – Music for Claire Denis’ High Life – Album Review by Killian Laher Stuart Staples and Tindersticks have a long association with French director Claire Denis.  This soundtrack is […]

New Music – Karen O & Danger Mouse – Lux Prima A new album by Karen O & Danger Mouse, I hear you say. I wonder what that will sound like? Well, […]

Diät – Positive Disintegration – Album Review by Killian Laher German band Diät draw inspiration from the heavily mined territory of post-punk.  This collection is their second album, and it’s fair to […]

Robert Forster – Inferno – Album Review by Killian Laher When considering what sort of artist would have an album titled Inferno, Robert Forster is not the first name that comes to […]

E.B. The Younger – To Each His Own – Album Review by Killian Laher With Midlake seemingly on indefinite hiatus, following bass player Paul Alexander’s excellent Two Medicine album, singer Eric Pulido […]

The Lemonheads – Varshons 2 – Album Review by Killian Laher Ten years on from the Lemonheads’ last covers album, and last album of any description, the band follow it up with […]

The Twilight Sad – It Won/t Be Like This All The Time – Album Review by Killian Laher A first album in more than four years for Scottish miserablists The Twilight Sad.  […]

Angelo de Augustine – Tomb – Album Review by Killian Laher American singer-songwriter Angelo de Augustine returns with his third album, the awkwardly-titled Tomb.  The title track which opens the album sees […]

Hammock – Universalis – Album Review by Killian Laher After the choral explorations of last year’s Mysterium, Hammock return with a fully instrumental album.  This one is unremiittingly lovely.  Early on in […]

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories for Christmas – Album Review by Killian Laher After this year’s well-received Here Lies The Body album, Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert enjoyed it […]

How I Found Neil Young – by Killian Laher Cooler people than me dropped Neil Young’s name into conversations involving the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.  The extent of my Neil Young […]

Jeff Tweedy – Warm – Album Review by Killian Laher Maybe this should be titled: Jeff Tweedy goes back to his roots?  This, his first fully-fledged solo album, is the most ‘country’ […]

Flasher – Constant Image – Album Review by Killian Laher The unfortunately named Flasher are making serious waves in their native Washington DC.  The trio recently released their debut full-length album and […]

Looking back to Lou Reed (via the Velvet Underground and Nico) – by Killian Laher Not so long after becoming a teenager, I became aware of Lou Reed, through the one song […]

Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. – Album Review by Killian Laher Four years on from Monuments for an Elegy, […]

Ed Harcourt – Beyond the End – Album Review by Killian Laher Ed Harcourt has released seven albums of singer-songwriter music, ranging in intensity and mood since his debut in 2001, Here […]

Ryley Walker – The Lillywhite Sessions – Album Review by Killian Laher Ryley Walker follows up his prog-rock messy Deafman Glance album just six months later with a cover of an unreleased […]

J Mascis – Elastic Days – Album Review by Killian Laher Guitar god J Mascis seems to be alternating Dinosaur Jr albums with solo ones these days.  His fifth solo album is […]

Two Medicine – Astropsychosis – Album Review by Killian Laher Two Medicine is the side project of Midlake bassist Paul Alexander.  It’s in a similar vein to his main band, with the […]