The Student Playlist

Showcasing the Best New Music, Curating the Classics

Tag Ed Biggs

REVIEW: Thom Yorke – ‘Suspiria’ (XL / Unsustainabubble)

At its best, ‘Suspiria’ is the most fractured and unsettled work that Thom Yorke has ever produced.

PLAYLIST: October 2018

All the best new music released in October 2018, including Roisin Murphy, Little Dragon, Sampha, Sharon Van Etten and Deerhunter!

REVIEW: Cloud Nothings – ‘Last Building Burning’ (Wichita / P.I.A.S.)

Regaining the screaming, cathartic impetus they had lost the last time out, Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings hit top form with fifth album ‘Last Building Burning’.

CLASSIC ’90s: Fatboy Slim – ‘You’ve Come A Long Way Baby’

Bridging the gap between booze and ecstasy culture at the end of the Nineties, ‘You’ve Come A Long Way Baby’ remains the quintessential Fatboy Slim artefact and Norman Cook’s finest hour.

CULT ’80s: Sonic Youth – ‘Daydream Nation’

An album integral to the very DNA of independent culture and music as we understand it today, Sonic Youth’s ‘Daydream Nation’ is still so visceral and forceful 30 years later.

PLAYLIST: September 2018

All the best new music released in September 2018 – including The Twilight Sad, Julia Holter, Kurt Vile, Marie Davidson and Action Bronson.

CULT ’90s: Mercury Rev – ‘Deserter’s Songs’

Perhaps the most sonically beautiful album of the Nineties, ‘Deserter’s Songs’ was Mercury Rev’s finest hour, but it emerged out of their darkest.