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In Short: Destroyer ‘Kaputt’

‘Kaputt’ is the type of album that comes around far too rarely. It is quite simply a masterpiece, layered with so many meanings and so many strands of thought that to deconstruct it would be impossible. It’s experimental and post-modern and self-aware and so many other things. But above all else, one thing is clear: this is art.

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In Short: The Strokes ‘Angles’

It’s a very competent and at times very enjoyable album, and in my opinion it’s nowhere near as shit as everyone has been saying it is. But it is most definitely not amazing.

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In Short: Fleet Foxes ‘Helplessness Blues’

Yet again they’ve left everyone else in their wake, and it will be years before the imitators even come close.

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