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Live: By The Rivers

The night was filled with easy going reggae rhythms

Club: Road to Ibiza presents Sidney Charles b2b Santé b2b Darius Syrossian

Unfortunately, Brotherhood alone doesn’t guarantee a good set

Live: Stornoway

Stornoway engage with the audience with their heartfelt connectivity blended with just a hint of Southern-English polite humour

Album: Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool

My Love Is Cool makes for an interesting sonic experience like nothing else

Live: Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals showed their musical depth

Live: J. Cole

Although the stage is bigger and the lights are brighter, the integrity, honesty and energy are exactly the same

Club: High Hoops presents DJ Sprinkles

Sprinkles inspires an atmosphere of joyous community with some achingly beautiful deep house sounds

Live: Flo Morrissey & Tobias Jesso Jr.

It was refreshing to see two solo singer songwriters captivate the audience

Festival: Live At Leeds

Live at Leeds again proved to be a brilliant day out

Live: Public Service Broadcasting

Rather than subscribe to the overdone 4 piece rock band, Public Service Broadcasting have taken an idea and run with it

Live: Karnivool

Karnivool don’t quite recover from playing their energetic songs early

Live: John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke – you either love him, or you have probably never heard of him

Club: Daniel Avery

Avery’s lack of charisma is more than made up for by his music

Album: George FitzGerald – Fading Love

Fading Love is an album for after the lights come up

Live: Mounties

Mounties fail to catch the attention of the crowd for long spells

Live: Bipolar Sunshine

Bipolar Sunshine does little to stir the audience to any higher echelons

Live: The Leisure Society

The Leisure Society call us into welcoming arms with tune after tune of harmless and sunny bliss

Club: Selective Hearing presents Robert Hood & Sunil Sharpe

Robert Hood is everything a DJ should be

Live: Jam City

Jam City’s live show feels undercooked

Live: James Bay

The combination of venue with artist could not have been more perfect