A less marketable, but equally accurate description is blooming enjoyable pop music.
Lisa Hannigan seems to have an overflowing idea bank with which to go forth and flourish.
Not all surface and definitely not so silly
Textbook examples of electronica
Great company if you're in a certain mood. But possibly not if you have a headache.
A smooth mix of political and personal, sincere and satirical.
An unapologetic homage to the celluloid and stage musical.
Success and autonomy, accessibility and creativity. All in a day's work for White Denim.
The record is the ultimate, all-encapsulating mood swing of its matriarch.
An album doubtless more fun to perform than to hear.
Mr E turns lupine, gets primal and cranks the dial to distort.
Fin Greenall presents a third outing in his singer-songwriter hat.
Journal For Plague Lovers is enigmatic, engulfed, enraged.
The band strike while their iron’s hot, but fail to set anyone’s world on fire.
Manchester offers up its latest rock offering.
Funk-tinged pop to an audience engrossed in the fashion for fusion.
The Glaswegian indie pop band grow more epic with their fourth long-awaited album.
A delicious and surprisingly commercial mix.
Already lightly blessed by good time associations.
The second chance may well have been squandered.
A band you want to like, but based on this sketchy offering it's hard to see the point.
One band who have dodged, or shunned the draining corporate mentality.
Performed with the personality with which it is imbued.
It's a knowing but loving, and exuberant dissection of their native culture.
Tonight is a half-realised dream.
This album is a great teaser for future gems.
The walls and surfaces here are as much an instrument as the drums themselves.
Because they don't sound like anyone else.
Missiles is not an accurate representation of what The Dears have to offer.
A quality ensemble playing tracks already beloved in their original form
If you like landscapes with your soundscapes, this one's for you.
Deserving of your full attention
An album rich in character and full of nostalgic spirit.
Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
This former buzz band have missed the boat.
