reviews
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Our Rating 6/10 When BLACKPINK release music, it is never just a drop. It is a recalibration of global pop temperature. Deadline arrives after a period where each member expanded her individual identity. That matters. You can feel it in the control here. This EP is not chaotic spectacle. It is sharpened, deliberate, aware of…
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Our Rating 10/10 flawless. Rosalía has spent years proving she can bend tradition and modernity into something uniquely hers. LUX is what happens when she stops proving and starts claiming. This is not a pop album chasing scale. It’s an album built for it. In interviews around the record, Rosalía said, “Llevo preparándome toda la…
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Our Rating 7/10 Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon doesn’t rap like he’s trying to impress you. He raps like he already knows he can. As of Now is long, loose, and deliberately personality-driven. It opens with humour. Not throwaway humour. Sharp, slightly absurd, meme-aware humour that immediately establishes tone. He understands the internet age of rap, but…
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Our Rating 9/10 In a culture obsessed with noise, Dotts O’Connor chooses stillness. The alternative folk songwriter has built his reputation on restraint. Rooted in rural landscapes and the emotional weight they carry, his work inhabits the space between connection and isolation, routine and longing. Nothing feels forced. Nothing feels ornamental. His songs sound lived…
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Our Rating: 8.5/10 There are countless films about Frida Kahlo. Few allow her to speak for herself. Directed by Carla Gutiérrez in her feature debut, Frida premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award, before being released globally on Amazon Prime Video on March 14, 2024. From the…
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Focus track: “Gang Signs” Our Rating: 7/10 THUMPER have always understood impact. Density. Volume. The physicality of sound. But Sleeping With The Light On suggests something more interesting than just noise. It suggests discipline. The album opens with “The Rip,” and the name is apt. It does not ease you in. It arrives with crunch…
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Our Rating: Nostalgia I have always considered Daft Punk to be one of the rare acts who understood mythology as well as melody. Their split five years ago felt less like a breakup and more like the end of a chapter in modern electronic folklore. They exited quietly, deliberately, without reunion bait or nostalgia merch…
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Our Rating 7/10 Soda Blonde – “Suit & Tie” I have always considered Faye O’Rourke to be one of Ireland’s finest and most undervalued vocalists. How a voice like hers has not travelled globally is something I will never fully understand. Perhaps it speaks less to talent and more to the chronic inability of Ireland’s…
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Our Rating: 10/10From the forthcoming album It’s About Time (March 6, 2026) There are entire stages of women’s lives that popular music still refuses to name. Peri-menopause is one of them. With “Young One,” Ndidi O does not just name it, she sits inside it. Quietly. Unflinchingly. Taken from her forthcoming album It’s About Time,…
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