The Student Playlist

Showcasing the Best New Music, Curating the Classics

Category Reviews

REVIEW: GOAT -‘Requiem’ (Sub Pop)

‘Requiem’, for all its attempted restraint, is the most ambitious-sounding GOAT record to date.

REVIEW: White Lies – ‘Friends’ (BMG)

On ‘Friends’, it’s hard to determine a direction at which White Lies might be going with their music, since they seem to have been stuck in the same place for quite some time now.

REVIEW: Regina Spektor – ‘Remember Us To Life’ (Warner Bros)

‘Remember Us To Life’ goes some way to changing that, but though there are new layers of sound, the album feels too disjointed to really take hold.

REVIEW: Slaves – ‘Take Control’ (Virgin EMI)

Expanding the palette of their influences for album two, ‘Take Control’ sees Slaves doing exactly that.

REVIEW: Bon Iver – ’22, A Million’ (Jagjaguwar)

’22, A Million’ not only manages to stray from anything clichéd but reasserts Justin Vernon’s status as one of the few artists that truly manages to make an art form out of his melancholic ponderings of the world around him.

REVIEW: The Wytches – ‘All Your Happy Life’ (Heavenly)

While it ticks many of the same boxes as its predecessor, The Wytches’ second album sees them hit something of a creative ceiling that will need to be addressed next time.

REVIEW: Pixies – ‘Head Carrier’ (Pixiesmusic / P.I.A.S.)

Despite some mediocre moments, ‘Head Carrier’ gives us an older, more sensible Pixies who sound as though they’re having fun with their music.

REVIEW: Drive-By Truckers – ‘American Band’ (ATO)

In the third decade of their career, Drive-By Truckers get more politically explicit than ever before with their 11th album.

REVIEW: Passenger – ‘Young As The Morning Old As The Sea’ (Black Crow)

Michael Rosenberg gives us another collection of songs that are mostly tolerable and pleasant enough, yet still feel utterly bland and emotionally contrived.