Album Reviews

Album reviews from Artrocker Magazine.

Washed Out / Within & Without
Washed Out deliver blissful summer euphoria to the ears of Ric Rawlins...
Released 11 July 11 on Weird World | By Ric Rawlins
The Horrors / Skying
Rory Carroll will be predicting your horrorscopes this week. And his prediction is: you are going to buy the new Horrors album because it’s amazing!
Released 11 July 11 on XL Records | By Rory Carroll
Roy Harper / Songs of Love and Loss
Samuel Breen explores this retrospective collection from the Zeppelin-referenced legend of UK folk...
Released 27 June 11 on Believe Digital
Dennis Hopper Choppers / Be Ready
Thomas Norton has a listen to the peculiar - and occasionally clumsy - garage rock of Dennis Hopper Choppers
Released 27 June 11 on D Wink
Is Tropical / Native To
Subversive synth warriors Is Tropical have delivered the goods with their debut album, prompting Ric Rawlins to quote Lord Buckley and generally talk a lot of enthusiastic gibberish!
Released | By Ric Rawlins
Three Trapped Tigers / Route One Or Die
Max Raymond salutes the exhilarating "free-flowing noise" that makes up the new album from Three Trapped Tigers...
Released | By Max Raymond
The Prodigy / World’s On Fire
Rory Carroll invents a 'Prodigy drinking game' to the new DVD/Live album from the techno legends
Released | By Rory Carroll
Barbara Panther / Barbara Panther
Joe Woolmer checks in with the exhilaratingly adventurous Barbara Panther, on her debut solo album...
Released 16 May 11 on City Slang | By Joe Gamp
Thurston Moore / Demolished Thoughts
Steph Kretowicz takes a look at the Beck-produced solo album from Sonic Youth guru Thurston Moore...
Released 23 May 11 on Matador | By Steph Kretowicz
Pete & The Pirates / One Thousand Pictures
Pete and the Pirates are navigating towards legendary status with a fantastic second album, writes Emily Kendrick…
Released 23 May 11 on Stolen Recordings | By Emily Kendrick

In The Magazine

ARTROCKER MAGAZINE ISSUE 118 - ON SALE NOW!

We celebrate one of our all-time fave bands and Artrocker friends The Black Keys with an exclusive interview, photos by the legendary Gavin Watson AND a look back at their first-ever cover feature from 2004! Also: The KLF revisited! New photos, new interviews, new mysteries! PLUS - We chat with the top 10 invading Maccabees, while Atari Teenage Riot bring on the revolution - AND Over 100 records reviewed!