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 […]

Adrianne Lenker – Abysskiss – Album Review Out 5 October 2018 on Saddle Creek LIVE on 16 January 2019 at Button Factory, Dublin While many may think this is Adrianne steeping away […]

Kurt Vile – Bottle It In – Album Review by Killian Laher Kurt Vile puts a lot of effort into sounding like he puts no effort in.  Confused?  You will be listening […]

Low – Double Negative – Album Review by Killian Laher Low are releasing their twelfth album, a fact which in itself is unremarkable.  But if you ever thought Low are just not […]

Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog – Album Review by Killian Laher Alice in Chains release their first album in 5 years and their third since getting back together post-Layne Staley.  These […]

Interpol – Marauder – Album Review by Killian Laher Interpol’s sixth (sixth!) album is their first in four years.  This time around they appear to have modified the formula with Paul Banks […]

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – With Animals – Album Review by Killian Laher This is Mark Lanegan’s second full length album collaboration with Duke Garwood, and it mostly consists of dark, […]