Album review: Prince – Piano & A Microphone 1983
Prince’s people have finally opened his famous Vault for the first of surely a long line of posthumous releases. But, as Piers Barber writes, this first effort – an intimate, tantalising stripped […]
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The Music Factory’s favourite albums of 2017
It’s time for the annual round-up of the our favourite full-length albums of 2017, this year picked by Buster Stonham and Piers Barber. The rundown this year is punctuated by unexpected returns to […]
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 […]
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 Favourite Albums of 2015
Here it is, another edition of the Music Factory’s world famous List Of Some Albums We Liked Most Out Of The Ones We Had Time To Listen To This Year: 2015 edition. […]
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 […]
