Jack Press

Northampton

Contributor at Freelance

Live Review Editor at Distorted Sound Magazine

Senior Digital Consultant. Words for @MetalHammer @stereoboard @readdork @distorted_mag.

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Articles

Sports Team - Boys These Days (Album Review)

3 weeks ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Home > News & Reviews > Sports Team Photo: Bartek Szmigulski On their third album, Sports Team have undergone a remarkable metamorphosis.
Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (Album Review)

3 weeks ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Home > News & Reviews > Garbage Photo: Joseph Cultice More than three decades since their formation, Garbage remain uncompromising.
Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia (Album Review)

1 month ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Sleep Token’s rise from cult metal oddities to Download headliners has generated plenty of buzz, but in a creative sense the band reaches fresh heights with ‘Even In Arcadia’, a record that shatters genre boundaries with breathtaking confidence. The masked collective's fourth album finds the enigmatic Vessel at his most vulnerable, breaking the fourth wall and forgoing their career-long concept in favour of wrestling with fame’s double-edged sword.
PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs? (Album Review)

1 month ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Photo: Vanessa Heins Indie-punks PUP can seem like the ultimate dysfunctional family bound by proximity and complementary neuroses. Following 2022’s ‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’ there were a series of shifts in their world that suggested a balancing out — guitarist Steve Sladkowski got married, bassist Nestor Chumak became a dad, and drummer Zack Mykula moved away.
SpiritWorld: Waiting On The Reaper

1 month ago | distortedsoundmag.com | Jack Press

In the elitist landscape of contemporary heavy music, few bands challenge conventions quite like SPIRITWORLD. Since their inception, the Las Vegas-based outfit has carved out a singularly unique space, crafting a universe that defies easy categorisation by blending thrash metal, hardcore punk, and Western storytelling. Come on, who doesn’t love cowboys and demons? With their third album, Helldorado, frontman Stu Folsom doesn’t just push boundaries, he obliterates them entirely.
Tunde Adebimpe: "You can create a world out of nothing"

2 months ago | readdork.com | Jack Press

An old wives’ tale says that bad things come in threes. For TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, it’s no superstition: it’s real life. In 2019, as the global pandemic threatened to take his livelihood away, his band pressed pause after 18 years together, he suffered the loss of several loved ones, and 15 years’ worth of music was stolen from his garage.
Röyksopp - True Electric (Album Review) - Stereoboard

2 months ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Home > News & Reviews > Royksopp Photo: Stian Andersen Röyksopp’s ‘True Electric’ is a 19-track time capsule inspired by 2023’s tour of the same name, with the Norwegian electronica duo attempting to harness the energy of those oscillating live sets.
Elton John and Brandi Carlile - Who Believes in Angels? (Album Review)

2 months ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Home > News & Reviews > Elton John Photo: Peggy Sirota At 78 and with his touring days behind him, you might expect Sir Elton John to be content resting on his laurels, legacy secured. But ‘Who Believes In Angels?, a collaborative album with Americana great Brandi Carlile, proves there’s still fire in those piano-playing fingers. This 10 track collection feels like eavesdropping on two musical giants sharing stories shaped across generations. The majestic opener The Rose of Laura Nyro unfolds...
Florist - Jellywish (Album Review)

2 months ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Photo: V Haddad On ‘Jellywish’, Florist’s campfire jams stretch out like open arms, their liquid synths and fingerpicked acoustic guitars setting the stage for Emily Sprague’s existential musings.
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Album Review)

2 months ago | stereoboard.com | Jack Press

Throughout Destroyer’s 14th album, Dan Bejar is preoccupied with the long shadow cast by mortality. If the nine tracks on ‘Dan’s Boogie’ are anything to go by, though, there’s life in the old dog yet. Here Bejar weaves sardonic, wry character studies together with jazz, psych-pop, lounge music, and everything in between. It’s as wonderful as ever.