2010 – 2019 in music, ranked for your pleasure. Lists. All the rage these days. Not least when we’re coming to the end of days. And by end of days, I mean the end of the decade. We may well be coming to the end of days itself but let’s keep it positive for now, […]

6 years ago

A stunning stride that belongs in any good sci-fi film. Dublin instrumental trio Alarmist have been crafting beautiful sonic landscapes for a few years now, generally raising their game with each new release. Patient, probing and inventive, an Alarmist track is really more of an experimental wandering, the kind of delicately assembled yet often daring adventure […]

7 years ago

Don’t play with our hearts like this, Frank. It’s difficult not to love Frank Ocean. He has one of the most beautiful voices in the world, his songwriting abilities are second to none, and he seems like a really cool guy. But there is one issue that we have with the man – he doesn’t […]

7 years ago

He’s done it again. Ever since he’s been given his own radio show on Apple Radio, Frank Ocean has been in something of a giving and overly creative mood. A few weeks ago he gave us his track ‘Chanel’, which promptly sent the internet into something of a collective meltdown. And that wasn’t long after […]

9 years ago

Frank Ocean’s music has a lot in common with busses, apparently. You wait for one to arrive, and now they’re all seemingly coming at once. Channel Orange showed up in 2012, then we were left waiting desperately for the follow-up, before he dropped visual album Endless in August 2016, and the very next day he dropped his […]

9 years ago

He knows how to produce a CHEWN, doesn’t he? Calvin Harris has had an interesting time of it lately with his personal life, but you wouldn’t know it from the music he’s been putting out. Following on from ‘How Deep Is Your Love’, ‘This Is What You Came For’, ‘Hype’ and ‘My Way’, we’re now […]

9 years ago