Methyl Ethel ‘Are You Haunted?’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Are You Haunted? is the fourth album from Australian alt-poppers Methyl Ethel, the beguiling musical brainchild of Jake Webb. He already knows the answer to that question – "we all have these ghosts that linger in our present predicaments" – and just as the speout of the corner of our eyes, the record has no fixed form, shimmering just out of reach of our common understanding.

Metronomy ‘Small World’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brighton based Metronony’s seventh album ‘Small World’ released on Because Music, is yet another existential release from a band forced to get back to basics in 2020; the world as we know it stopping and everyone getting off for a few months. Frontman and only remaining constant member Joseph Mount, suddenly confined to barracks with his family like the rest of us. finding unexpected solace in his immediate surroundings; the inspiration behind the record’s title and whose artwork comprises an old photo of public parkland taken by Mount’s mum.