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9/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. With Blindness, The Murder Capital have delivered the strongest and most fully realised record of their career so far. Not because it is cleaner or more commercially accessible, but because the band finally sound completely unconcerned with fitting neatly inside the increasingly exhausted “post-punk revival” label that…
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8/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. With Open Wide, Inhaler finally sound less concerned with escaping the shadow hanging over them and more focused on becoming the band they were probably always heading towards. For years, lazy discourse around the Dublin four-piece revolved around lineage rather than music. But by the time Open…
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Throwback Review 10/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. Looking back now, The Clearing feels like the album where Wolf Alice stopped trying to prove themselves to anybody. By the time the record arrived in 2025, the band had already survived the strange modern trajectory from indie darlings to Mercury Prize winners to one…
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8/10 There is something quietly cinematic about “Darlin’”, the new release from Irish collective AINM, but not in the overly polished or self-conscious way that term often gets thrown around. Instead, the track feels expansive because it understands atmosphere. It understands restraint. It allows space to exist between the notes. Originally beginning life as a…
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9/10 There’s a very fine line when artists cover Fix You. Get it wrong and it becomes karaoke wrapped in expensive production. Get it right and you uncover something hidden inside the song that listeners forgot was there. Sonaírí achieved the latter. Irish duo Sonaírí, consisting of Irish soprano Amie Dyer and tenor David Corr,…
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8/10 Daði Freyr has always occupied a curious space in modern pop. Too eccentric to be conventional chart-pop, too emotionally sincere to be dismissed as novelty, and too musically sharp to fade into the endless algorithmic sludge currently swallowing the genre whole. Like many others, you may have first discovered Daði in 2020 with his…
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5/10 There are films that know exactly what they are, and then there are films desperately trying to convince audiences they are more intelligent than a man being punched so hard his spine exits his body. Mortal Kombat II spends two exhausting hours trapped somewhere between those identities. The result is a loud, chaotic spectacle…
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7/10 In an era where so much film and television feels algorithmically assembled, loud, cynical and terrified of sincerity, Remarkably Bright Creatures arrives like a deep breath. Quietly devastating and unexpectedly beautiful, Olivia Newman’s adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel understands something many modern films have forgotten: audiences do not need constant spectacle to…
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3/10 There’s disappointing television, and then there’s whatever that Peaky Blinders film thought it was doing. For years, Peaky Blinders built one of the most magnetic anti-heroes modern British television has produced. Tommy Shelby was cold, strategic, and emotionally fractured, yes, but always dangerous. Even in grief, even in addiction, even when the world was…
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