Review: Bladee’s ‘333’
Bladee’s music is either airy transcendence...or the worst thing you’ve ever heard.
Review: Haim’s ‘Women in Music Pt. III’
As with other albums scheduled for 2020, the release date for Women in Music Pt. III experienced an upheaval. Having moved from its original...
Cherwell’s albums of the year so far
Ten albums that we've judged to be among the best of this weird, weird year so far
Review: Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Punisher’
with each song, the world becomes blurrier, as if drunk, only to be immediately sharpened again with the piercing nature of Bridgers’ lyrics
Review: Khruangbin’s ‘Mordechai’
Part of Khruangbin’s marketing campaign for Mordechai
features an update to their online playlist curator, AirKhruang. The 2015 website
allowed listeners to create playlists for their...
Album Review: Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’
Promoting her latest album on Twitter, Lady Gaga told fans:
“listen from beginning to end, no need to shuffle, this is my true story.”
Indeed, Chromatica...
how i’m feeling now: Hyper-Pop Masterpiece for the Lockdown Generation
Charli XCX’s lockdown productivity is putting us all to shame. On the 6th of April she announced to fans via a public Zoom meeting that...
Review: The 1975’s ‘Notes on a Conditional Form’
Notes on a Conditional Form, the fourth studio album
by The 1975, has created its own chaotic history even before its release. The
band’s latest record...
Album Review: Hayley Williams’ ‘Petals for Armor’
In ‘Misery Business’, Paramore’s 2007 breakthrough hit, Hayley Williams claimed that “second chances, they don’t ever matter / people never change”. She’s been proving...
Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Song For Our Daughter’
Laura Marling’s seventh album, Song
For Our Daughter, was scheduled for release later this year. But, like many
other artists and entertainers,
the likes of Dua Lipa...
Modern Classical: Locked Down, Looking Back
Ludovico Einaudi is in lockdown. With time to think - to take a
walk in the fresh Mediterranean breeze - perhaps the Italian pianist could...
Review: Fiona Apple’s ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’
“All my particles disband and disperse/And I’ll be back in the
pulse.”
Music, to Fiona Apple, seems like a Schrodinger’s Cat kind of
paradox; it relies...
Album Review: Rina Sawayama’s ‘SAWAYAMA’
Sofia Henderson celebrates a dynamic but thoughtful debut
Album Review: Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia’
Emily Cope defends Dua Lipa's position as 'Britain's leading popstar'.