Album review -  Back at the start of the new millennia, Australian electronic group The Avalanches blessed the world with their outstanding debut album, Since I Left You. Famously made up entirely of samples, the album has gone on to become one of the most influential electronic albums of all time. The group then made us wait a whole 16 years for the follow up to Since I Left You, with the acclaimed album Wildflower. Thankfully we’ve only had to wait four more years for the next album. The newly released We Will Always Love You boasts 25 tracks across its 70 minute run time. The album is a blast of emotionally heavy songs exploring multiple genres and honestly, it’s pretty incredible how well this album fits together thematically considering how many different styles and genres are squeezed into it. WWALY has everything ranging from house, hip hop, soul, funk, psychedelia and disco. WWALY conveys a really strong story despite having no narrative to the album in any way. It’s li...

 Album review - When Blank Banshee released his debut solo album in 2012, he successfully cemented himself as one of the pioneers of a new form of trap influenced vaporwave, now known as ‘vaportrap’. Since his ambitious debut the mask wearing Blank Banshee, has continued to release music that has kept him at the forefront of the genre. The Canadian artist and producer, (real name Patrick Driscoll) has recently released his 4 th full length album titled ‘Gaia’, a new collection of fifteen songs all clocking in at less than 3 minutes, leading to an album that is a little more structured and thematic than his previous releases. This doesn’t necessarily make for a better collection of songs though, in the past Banshee has never been one to shy away from experimentation and risk taking, however the majority of tracks on Gaia feel a lot more safe and underdeveloped. At times Gaia feels like it has a lot more in common with a game or movie soundtrack than an album which isn’t particularl...