Album review: AZD – Actress
The charismatic Actress returns with AZD, his fifth album apparently inspired by the material of chrome and obscure outsider art. But look past the lofty theorising, advises Piers Barber, and you’ll […]
Category Archives: Albums
The Music Factory’s Favourite Albums of 2016
2016 saw the release of some of memorable new music, including important albums that challenged conventions, reinvigorated established styles and enshrined burgeoning reputations. Here, Phil Smith and Piers Barber present a run down of the Music […]
Classic albums: Global Communication – 76:14
Following the release of Mark Pritchard’s mighty Under The Sun LP, Piers Barber invents a new feature in order to pen an ode to one of the pioneering producer’s finest moments to date: […]
Album Review: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
After five years of waiting, we finally have a new Radiohead album to enjoy. Here’s Buster Stonham on whether it was worth all the fuss. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) After five […]
Album review: Kowton – Utility
Kowton’s debut full-length, the first by an individual artist on the pioneering Livity Sound label, is an unsurprisingly potent selection of pulsing techno rollers and expertly crafted DJ tools, writes […]
Album review: Fatima Al Qadiri – Brute
Piers Barber checks out Fatima Al Qadiri’s characteristic take on protest music and discovers a record often stunning in its relevance and condemnation of authoritarian state violence. Fatima Al Qadiri – […]
The Music Factory’s top 20 albums of 2014: Part one – 20-11
So then – that’s your lot for 2014. It’s been a year we’ll remember for James Rodriguez, Alex Salmond and completely futile iPhone launches, but it’s also been one that’s seen the seen […]
The Music Factory’s top 20 albums of 2014: Part two – 10-1
So then – that’s your lot for 2014. It’s been a year we’ll remember for James Rodriguez, Alex Salmond and pointless iPhone launches, but also one that’s seen the seen the release […]
Album Review: The Drums – Encyclopedia
The Drums’ third album showcases a band that, despite rapidly losing members, is finding an impressive potency and maturity as they grow into indie elder statesmen. Adam Terris listens to a true album of the […]
Seven of the best: Album openers
It’s an almost impossible task, but the brave Adam Terris was man enough to take it on: here are seven of his favourite ever album openers. The start of an album can be magical, it can […]
