Review

Dum Dum Girls: Only In Dreams

Dum Dum Girls is one vintage venerating band that could easily be dismissed as just that, yet another retro reverent band. But that would be reductive criticism. Informed by France’s yé-yé (a contemporary example would be April March of ‘Chick Habit’ fame), they’ve certainly gotten enough criticism of that from their debut. Sophomore album Only […]

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Soft Rocks: The Curse of Soft Rocks

Distancing themselves from the monotony of today’s musical palette, Soft Rocks, out of Brighton UK, have pieced together a musical soundscape on their new album The Curse Of Soft Rocks. After a pause in musical releases spent spinning edgy parties and curating mixtapes for the likes of Beats in Space and ID Magazine, the new […]

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Feist: Metals

It’s a music critic cliché to claim an artist has grown every time they release a new record. So we’ll do one better and say that Feist has always had the maturity despite her traipsing the fine (and rickety) line between artistry and commercial success. You’ve known her through obvious hits like ‘1, 2, 3, […]

Review

Alias: Fever Dream

Anticon was the de facto hip hop collective that was changing the sound of the genre. Being made of predominantly white boys, the then collective (now a record label) built a reputation as experimenters of a type of music that was stubborn to the idea of changing. This naturally led to their distancing themselves from […]

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Salam: Relevant Reggae

Reggae is a difficult genre to tackle, especially in Malaysia where it is more commonly associated with rockers way past their prime who still sport dreadlocks and speak in bad faux patois. It’s either that…

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Sudarshan: Not a Fool

Being a part of Tiga Segi Tiga, which is probably just one in hundreds of bands local Dada frontman Kuning Pening has formed with him, the uninitiated could easily mistake Sudarshan (and by extension the rest of his peers) as nothing more than a novelty comedy act. They’d be right, and they’d be wrong. For […]

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Kai Fish: Homerton Baby

Kai Fish, better known for his role as bassist of indie rock band Mystery Jets, released his debut solo album Life In Monochrome earlier this year. Reflecting a period of transition in the musician’s life; amidst the end of a 6 year relationship and beginning of the new relationship that resulted in his marriage, we […]

Review

The Kooks: Junk of the Heart

The Kooks’s album Junk of the heart

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They Will Kill Us All: ‘Under The Red Sky’

TWKUA’s new single ‘Under The Red Sky’

Review

The Weeknd: Thursday

Coming out of nowhere (aka the internet), r’n’b outfit The Weeknd proves that there’s more to them than mystique