The Mercury First Listen Review: Everything Everything
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aidanreynolds has written the following articles:
The Twilight Sad - It Won/T be Like This All the Time
This is how the band was always meant to sound»
The Prodigy - No Tourists
The whole of No Tourists unfolds like a band on a monstrous reunion union tour who can’t quite remember how to play their greatest hits»
Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
That a 20-year-old band is still finding new ways to collaborate is immensely satisfying»
Skating Polly - The Make It All Show
I’m rooting for them to be the biggest band in the world»
The Fangasm: Handsome by Handsome
A document of a band totally in sync and thriving on the tension that would eventually destroy them»
The Used - The Canyon
There’s a huge amount of sadness and death within The Canyon, but the music brims with life»
Bully - Losing
Retconning a slacker aesthetic and signing to Sub Pop isn’t enough to grant a pass»
Roddy Woomble - The Deluder
Both the most stripped back and full record the singer has released under his own name»
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
The band have torn themselves apart just to see what’s inside»
Ride - Weather Diaries
The absolute best thing to emerge from Beady Eye's split was Andy Bell’s new freedom to return to **Ride»
Sleep Party People - Lingering
There are so many clashing tonal ideas that it can’t possibly hang together»
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
This is a Whigs record to the core»
Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness
If this were a Sonic Youth record, it’d be a raging mess, but here everything works in unison»
Bush - Black and White Rainbows
Every edge sanded smooth, compliant and utterly indistinct»
Meat Wave - The Incessant
An absolute creative peak»
The Friday Fangasm: Elliott Smith by Elliott Smith
If you let it, this record will protect you for the rest of your life»
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
It’s a wonderful thing to hear Jimmy Eat World rediscover the form that stretched from Clarity through Futures»
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired for Sound
The band have retreated back to their pre-4AD line-up and reined in the overtly pop instincts»
Vomitface - Hooray for Me
They’re better at being Pixies, Nirvana, Mudhoney and Pavement than anyone else right now»
Blink 182 - California
Hearing a 44-year-old man make a premature ejaculation joke has never been so enjoyable»
Augustines - This Is Your Life
Augustines have no real right to exist within this climate, but yet that’s precisely why we need them»
Fog - For Good
The most focused Fog has ever sounded»
Frightened Rabbit - Painting Of A Panic Attack
This still feels exactly like the record they had to make»
Mogwai - Atomic
It sounds like the result of a group refreshed, hungry and eager to grow»
School Of Seven Bells - SVIIB
The whole thing is put together with such love that nothing ever feels like a burden, nor an obligation»
TRAAMS - Modern Dancing
There isn’t a second wasted here»
Young Fathers - White Men are Black Men Too
What do Young Fathers mean to you? Chances are, you’re wrong.»
Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic
It’s rare to find an artist so willing to stretch themselves that they create an entirely new way of writing music»
Finch - Back to Oblivion
How this LP is received will ultimately decide Finch's fate, but all they've done on Back To Oblivion is exactly what they wanted to do.»