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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Sep 4

As Oasis fever spreads to the US, revisit our look at a psychedelic oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue. 👇

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As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

Album Review: Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 23

🌙 Moonchild Sanelly’s Full Moon is bold, cheeky & heartfelt - amapiano grooves, body-positive bravado, and raw vulnerability shape her future ghetto funk.

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A review of the latest from South African star, Moonchild Sanelly. An album full of heart, humour, and horniness.

Album Review: Hamilton Leithauser – This Side of the Island

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 21

This Side of the Island finds The Walkmen frontman, Hamilton Leithauser, at his most ragged & radiant - shrill yet soulful, playful yet profound. Imperfectly perfect.

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A review of the latest solo effort from The Walkmen frontman.

Album Review: Photocomfort – Patron Saint

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 19

Photocomfort’s Patron Saint is a gorgeous debut - blending vintage jazz vibes, glitchy twists & moments of indie-pop gold.

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A review of the debut album from Boston-based indie-pop artist, Justine Bowe aka Photocomfort.

Track of the Day: Wave Generators – Beyond Beyond

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 18

Track of the Day is a wild, three-act psychedelic rap epic, blazing its scorched earth trail in under three minutes.

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Track of the Day is a wild, three-act psychedelic rap epic, blazing its scorched earth trail in under three minutes.

Track of the Day: Fnasty323 – 100 Guns 100 Clips

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 17

🎧Track of the Day🎧

A hard-edged West-Coast rap banger, featuring Kendrick collaborator, Lefty Gunplay.

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Track of the Day is a hard-edged West-Coast rap banger.

Album Review: The Rhythm Method – Peachy

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 17

🍑Peachy by The Rhythm Method is a record full of character: wry storytelling, sly grooves, and quietly ambitious songwriting.

Find out why it was one of our favourites of 2024👇
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A relatable ode to belatedly coming-of-age in the tradition of great British pop Five years on from their debut and after almost a decade together, there’s a risk that the London duo of Joey Bradbu…

2025 Mid-Year Review: The Best Albums you haven’t heard of

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 16

💎 Best albums of 2025 you probably haven’t heard yet 💎

From coastal-folk heartbreak to playful existentialist rap, our pick of 5 hidden gems from the year to date.

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Continuing on from our pick of the best albums of 2025 so far, here are five of the best albums that have went under the radar.

Album Review: The Lumineers – Automatic

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 14

Automatic isn’t stripped-back, it’s hollow. The Lumineers’ latest does little to dispel the notion that they’re stomp-clap relics.

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As they sacrifice some of their catchy charm, The Lumineers lack of songwriting depth is increasingly exposed The Lumineers may only be five albums deep, and still command popular appeal, even if i…

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 14

If you haven’t got round to them already their Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble comps from around this time are pretty great as well.

Album Review: Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 14

SABLE, fABLE is Bon Iver stripped bare and rebuilt—dark introspection meets euphoric romance, with Justin’s voice carrying both ache and light.

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Justin Vernon leans into the mythology of Bon Iver, while delivering his most straightforward songwriting yet on a trip through his darkest lows and brightest highs Justin Vernon’s latest had been …

Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 14

Oasis like you’ve never heard them. Amorphous Androgynous turned a middling latter day single into a 22-minute psychedelic odyssey; filled with sitars, strings, and warped vocals. The sound of a cosmic rebirth.

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As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

Album Review: The Dream Machine – Small Time Monsters

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 13

Small Time Monsters is a blend of gothic imagery and classic pop that masks haunting tales of heartbreak and desire.

From Western-disco to dreamy jangles, The Dream Machine are upstart eccentrics with the skill of old masters. Review👇

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A review of the second album from Merseyside psych-pop eccentrics, The Dream Machine.

2024 in Review: Top 50 Albums (50-31)

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 12

From Aussie punk snark to Black Country poetry. Revisit our top 50 albums of 2024. 👇

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Part 1 in our top albums of 2024 counts down numbers 50-31. Featuring Doechii, Jack White, and Jamie XX.

2024 in Review: Top 50 Albums (50-31)

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 12

From Aussie punk snark to Black Country poetry. Revisit our top 50 albums of 2024. 👇

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Part 1 in our top albums of 2024 counts down numbers 50-31. Featuring Doechii, Jack White, and Jamie XX.

Album Review: Bashy – Being Poor is Expensive

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 11

“Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain”

Revisit our review of the best UK rap album of last year, the Mobo Award winning Being Poor Is Expensive by Bashy.

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Contrasts and contradictions drive a thought-provoking study of growing up poor in Britain

Track of the Day: GDP & Fatboi Sharif – Luchador Mask

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 6

Our track of the day is a (relatively) accessible offering from one of underground rap’s great experimentalists.

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Our track of the day is a (relatively) accessible offering from one of underground rap’s great experimentalists.

Track of the Day: The Toxic Crusaders – Safe to Say

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 5

Our track of the day is the standout from The Toxic Crusaders’ debut of warped and woozy boom bap throwbacks.

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Our track of the day is the standout from The Toxic Crusaders’ debut of warped and woozy boom bap throwbacks.

Album Review: The Courettes – The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 3

Album Review: The Courettes - The Soul Of…The Fabulous Courettes

The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.
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The wide-eyed sweetness of Phil Spector girl-groups meets the wild-eyed garage rock psychedelia you’d uncover on a Nuggets compilation.

Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 2

Despite the diminishing returns, Oasis’ later years were still peppered with occasional gems. This psych epic is quite unlike anything else in their catalogue. Albeit, the real credit doesn’t go to Oasis themselves.

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As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

EP Review: Westside Gunn – HEELS HAVE EYES

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 2

EP Review: Westside Gunn - HEELS HAVE EYES

Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, it was only appropriate to look at this through the lens of wrestling. - “This is Ric Flair as the touring NWA champ of the 80’s.”

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A review of Westside Gunn’s latest EP. Tied to his latest venture as a wrestling promoter, we look at one of underground rap’s biggest stars as a parallel to a veteran wrestler.

Album Review: Rhys Langston – Pale Black Negative

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 1

Rhys Langston’s “rapper’s singer-songwriter record” is a boundary blurring opus as his lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions.

Album Review: Rhys Langston - Pale Black Negative
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A boundary blurring opus as Langston’s lyrical flair is met with an emotive immediacy, amidst inventive, convention-defying compositions Pale Black Negative is ostensibly an underground hip-hop rec…

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No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Aug 1

A forgotten piece in the jigsaw of rock history, and one of the earliest entries in the metal canon.

From the archives, a review of the obscure proto-metal classic, Randy Holden’s Population II.

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Track of the Day: Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)

No Frills Reviews @nofrillsreviews.com · Jul 31

As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

nofrillsreviews.com/2025/07/31/t...

As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.