Reviews

2016
Thee Oh Sees 'Live in San Francisco'
Cate Le Bon 'Crab Day'

2015
(all published on the 405)
Mogwai 'Central Belters'
EL VY 'Return to the Moon'
Dave Heumann 'Here in the Deep'
Haiku Salut 'Etch and Etch Deep'
DRINKS 'Hermits on Holiday'
Du Blonde 'Welcome Back to Milk'
Mac McCaughan 'Non Believers'
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld 'Never Were The Way She Was'
Rose Windows 'Rose Windows'
Lightning Bolt 'Fantasy Empire'
Sea Change 'Breakage'
Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers 'Seasonal Hire'
Sam Prekop 'The Republic'
Sir Richard Bishop 'Tangier Sessions'
Duke Garwood 'Heavy Love'
Spectres 'Dying'
The Go-Betweens 'G Stands for Go-Betweens Vol 1 1978-1984'
Jessica Pratt 'On Your Own Love Again'
Pinkshinyultrablast 'Everything Else Matters'
Dan Mangan & Blacksmith 'Club Meds'

2014
the 405: The Wharves 'At Bay'
the 405: Wrekmeister Harmonies 'Then It All Came Down'
the 405: The Twilight Sad 'Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave'
the 405: A Winged Victory for the Sullen 'Atomos'
the 405: Vashti Bunyan 'Heartleap'
the 405: Camera 'Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide'
the 405: Holy Sons 'The Fact Facer'
the 405: Castanets 'Decimation Blues'
the 405: Eaux 'Plastics'
the 405 festival review: The Camden Crawl
the 405: Bo Ningen 'III'
the 405: The Skull Defekts 'Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown'
the 405: Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 'Enter the Slasher House'
the 405: Jon Porras 'Light Divide'
the 405: Laibach 'Sceptre'
the 405: Sun Kil Moon 'Benji'
the 405: Cheatahs, 'Cheatahs'


2013
the 405: The Wave Pictures, 'City Forgiveness'
the 405: Quasi, 'Mole City'
The Huffington Post: How Nirvana's 'In Utero' re-issue could win them new fans
the 405: Disappears, 'Era'
the 405: Body/Head 'Coming Apart'
the 405: Julianna Barwick 'Nepenthe'
the 405: Superchunk 'I Hate Music'
the 405: Medicine 'To The Happy Few'
the 405: People of the North 'Sub Contra'
the 405: Colleen 'The Weighing of the Heart'
the 405: Kawabata Makoto's Mainliner 'Revelation Space'
the 405: Daniel Johnston, 'Space Ducks'
the 405: Foot Village, 'Make Memories'
the 405: John Parish, 'Screenplay'
the 405 live: The Sea and Cake, London Scala
the 405: Chelsea Light Moving, Chelsea Light Moving
the 405: review: Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, What the Brothers Sang
the 405: review: Follakzoid 'II'

2012

November
London Ears: Swans, Sir Richard Bishop, Koko
London Ears: Meursault, Rob St John, Withered Hand, Islington Assembly Hall
the 405: review: Emeralds, Just to Feel Anything

October
The 405: review: Cheval Sombre, Mad Love
London Ears: Liars, The Haxan Cloak, London Scala
The 405: review: Moon Duo, Circles

September
The 405: live: Calexico, Laura Gibson, Kentish Town hmv Forum
The 405: review: Catherine Irwin, Little Heater
The 405: review: Woods, Bend Beyond
London Ears: Woods, the Proper Ornaments, London Cargo

August
The 405: review: Swans, The Seer
London Ears: Cocorosie, London Royal Festival Hall
The 405: review: Willits and Sakamoto, Ancient Future

July
London Ears: Atlas Sound, London Scala
The 405: live: Tindersticks, Emmy the Great, Somerset House
The 405: review: Laetitia Sadier, Silencio
The 405: review: Meursault, Something for the Weakened


June
The 405: review: Piano Magic, Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet
The 405 review: ATP I'll Be Your Mirror curated by ATP & Mogwai, Alexandra Palace

May
London Ears: A Place to Bury Strangers, London Cargo
The 405: review: Ghosting Season, The Very Last of the Saints

April
London Ears: Sir Richard Bishop, Alexander Tucker, Duke Garwood, Cafe Oto
The 405: review: Dead Mellotron, Glitter
The 405: review: Lower Dens, Nootropics
The 405: review: Human Don't be Angry
The 405: review: The Retribution Gospel Choir EP

March
The 405: review: Lee Ranaldo, Between The Times and The Tides
The 405: live : All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Jeff Mangum
The 405: review: White Hills, Frying on this Rock
The 405: live: Andrew Bird, the Barbican
London Ears: Timber Timbre, Islington Town Hall

February
The 405: review: Various, Minimal Wave Tapes vol 2
The 405: review: Jim White, Where It Hits You
The 405: review: Windy & Carl, We Will Always Be
The 405: review: Francois and the Atlas Mountains, E Volo Love
London Ears: Errors, Remember Remember, London XOYO
London Ears: Gentle Friendly/ Way Through/ Peepholes, London Cafe Oto


January
The Huffington Post: 'Trying to save Head: why did a successful record store have to close?'
The 405: review: Imbogodom, And They Turned Not Where They Went

2011

December
The 405 interview: "More Thoughtful, Less Brutal" The 405 meets Robyn Hitchcock
The 405: review: Dan Mangan, Oh Fortune

November
The 405: live: Django Django, Hoxton Bar and Kitchen
The 405 review: Eleanor Friedberger, Last Summer
The 405: review: Le Volume Courbe, Theodoraus Rex EP

October
The Huffington Post: 'Keeping it Peel, remembering a broadcasting legend'
The 405: live: Meursault/ Dark Captain, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
The 405: Q&A: Bardo Pond
The 405: review: Darren Hayman, The Ship's Piano
The 405: review: Jape, Ocean of Frequency
The 405: review: Zun Zun Egui, Katang

September
The Huffington Post: 'Come as You Were: Nirvana's Enduring Influence'
The 405: review: Colin Stetson, Those Who Didn't Run EP
The 405: live: King Creosote and Jon Hopkins/ Francois and the Atlas Mountains, London Queen Elizabeth Hall
The 405: review: Wolves in the Throne Room, Celestial Lineage
The 405: live: Trembling Bells and Mike Heron, Vortex Jazz Club


August
The 405: review: Wooden Shjips, West
The 405: review: Foot Village/ Super Khoumeissa split 12"
The 405: live: The Murder Act/ Blood Music, Archway


July
The 405: review: I Like Trains, Sirens EP
The 405: review: The Ladybug Transistor, Clutching Stems

June
The 405: Review: Sorry Bamba 1970-1979, a retrospective of the Malian band leader

The 405: Live: the Sonics and Wire, London Royal Festival Hall