Release Date: 29th May 2014 Genre: House/ Pop/ UK Garage Label: Warner Music Purchase: iTunes All in all Clean Bandit’s New Eyes is a bad album with a few good songs It’s been more than two years since I first wrote about Clean Bandit and I’ve been keeping an eye Continue Reading
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Album Review: Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour
Release Date: 26th May 2014 Genre: Soul/ Pop Label: PMR/ Capitol Records Purchase: iTunes Sam Smith’s debut album In The Lonely Hour is one of the best albums of 2014 Following on from featuring on Disclosure’s first hit “Latch” in 2012 and Naughty Boy’s first UK Number 1 “La La La” Continue Reading
Album Review: Rick Ross – Mastermind
After several plays, what Rick Ross has mastered is hard to define. The intro offers a description of the term ‘mastermind’ but the album adds little context to this. “First of all, it is the principal through which you may borrow and use the education, the experience, the influence and Continue Reading
Album Review: Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron
According to Oxford Dictionaries an oxymoron is “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).” On the face of it, Oxymoron is an album that falls right into Hip Hop’s stereo type: drugs, guns, drugs and women. But closer inspection reveals Continue Reading
Album Review: Beyoncé – BEYONCE
Out of the blue Beyoncé dropped her self titled fifth solo album, BEYONCE, last week. It is one of the most exciting Pop albums in a while, not just because this is Beyoncé’s first studio album in two years. But also because of the production; all too often Pop music Continue Reading
Album Review: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
It’s been thirteen years since Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP and alot has changed since then but one thing has stayed the same. Eminem has had an incredible run of seven number 1 albums in the UK. A feat matched only by The Beatles (whose record he’s equaled with his Continue Reading
Album Review: AlunaGeorge – Body Music
Aluna Francis and George Reid are fast rising dance duo AlunaGeorge. Pinning them down to one particular genre is not the easiest thing to do but their debut album, Body Music, seems to have alot of clues. Is the album any good? Do AlunaGeorge still make Bass Music? Read on Continue Reading
Album Review: Kanye West – Yeezus
Yeezus feels like a continuation of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy mixed with 808s and Heartbreaks. Upon hearing Yeezus, it is not such a surprise that fellow label mate J. Cole decided to release his new album Born Sinner on the same day as Kanye. Yeezus does not have a Continue Reading
Album Review: J. Cole – Born Sinner
While the production is good, there are far too many average songs J. Cole moved the release date for his second album Born Sinner forward to coincide with the release of Kanye West’s new album Yeezus. A bold thing to do considering the power of Kanye, he beat 50 Cent Continue Reading
(Album Review) Disclosure – Settle
Settle is an intriguing album title because one would hope that is the last thing that an artist does approaching their debut album, writing and finishing it. Interestingly that is the name for brotherly production duo, Disclosure’s debut album. Read on to find out what it is that they settle Continue Reading