WPGM Recommends: The Avalanches – Wildflower (Album Review)
After a number of false dawns, The Avalanches have at long last revealed the fruits of their labour. Wildflower comes…
WPGM Recommends: Blood Orange – Freetown Sound (Album Review)
Contrary to the impressions gained from the title of Blood Orange’s third LP, Dev Hynes‘ third full length outing doesn’t…
WPGM Recommends: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (Album Review)
Only a band with Radiohead’s profile and diehard following could provoke a legion of overseas fans to pore over a…
WPGM Commentary: The One Album Wonder Phenomenon – Artists Whose Stars Shone For One Record Only
The concept of a “one hit wonder” is well documented, and often associated with the garish or the tragic. The…
WPGM Recommends: DIIV – Is The Is Are (Album Review)
Jangly guitars, thumping drum snares and echoing, disembodied vocals, DIIV’s sonic landscape is a familiar one, but nonetheless it’s a…
WPGM Recommends: Lil B – Thugged Out Pissed Off (Album Review)
Listeners unacquainted with the California-based enigma Lil B or ‘The Based god’ have got a lot to catch up on….
WPGM Recommends: Floating Points – Elaenia (Album Review)
From the first few seconds of album opener “Nespole“, it’s quite clear where Floating Points‘ loyalty lies, the soft, filtered…
WPGM Recommends: Grimes – Art Angels (Album Review)
Grimes‘ 2012’s breakthrough Visions was an exuberant, unpredictable release, characterised by its barely-decipherable, wispy vocal lines and thumping Roland synth…