Album Reviews

Album Review: Jessie Reyez – PAID IN MEMORIES

Almost two years after the release of her first single, ‘**JEANS (with Miguel)**’, Jessie Reyez finally dropped her highly anticipated third studio album, ‘PAID IN MEMORIES’, on March 28th. In a candid Instagram post, the Toronto-based artist revealed that the album tells the story of her journey to success. While there have certainly been challenges along the way, Reyez expressed that, “in love, in money, in spirit and memories, bitch, [she’s] fucking paid”.


The album opens with a slow burn,...

Album Review: Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

‘Speak Now’ is widely known as Taylor Swift’s “breakthrough” album and also the third album that she re-recorded, 13 years after its initial release, to get the rights to her old masters back. As her prior re-releases – ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ and ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ includes not just the old classics that we have been sobbing to in our bedrooms for over a decade now, but also songs from “The Vault”, meaning Swift wrote them for the original album in 20

Album Review: LANY – gg bb xx

The American indie-pop trio Paul Klein, Jake Gross and Les Priest – better known as LANY (which stands for Los Angeles and New York, as they are based in both cities) – finally released their highly anticipated fourth studio album ‘gg bb xx’ at midnight on Friday the 3rd of September across all platforms and all over the world. The title itself is, as many people assumed when it was announced, not an abbreviation, but rather doesn’t stand for anything and the only thing that would come up if you

Album Review: Jxdn – Tell Me About Tomorrow

Jaden Hossler aka Jxdn finally released his highly anticipated debut album ‘Tell Me About Tomorrow’. The 20-year old who rose to fame on TikTok last year during the worldwide Covid-19 induced lockdown, when young people literally had nothing else to do but stare at their phones all day long. Hossler came a long way from being the typical “pretty boy” that sat in front of a camera for 15 seconds who gained a massive female audience (almost 10 million) for exactly that, to moving to Los Angeles in

Album Review: Demi Lovato – Dancing With The Devil… The Art Of Starting Over

On April 2nd Demi Lovato released her seventh studio album ‘Dancing With The Devil… The Art Of Starting Over’, her comeback album after her three-year break due to her overdose and hospitalisation in 2018.

Since she prefers to process traumatic experiences from the past by writing songs instead of talking about them in interviews, the album focuses exactly on that. With ‘Dancing With The Devil… The Start of Starting Over’ Lovato brings brutal honesty as she finishes a chapter that was and still

GEM’s Best Albums of 2020 (Tickets to My Downfall - Machine Gun Kelly)

Looking back on this melancholic year can be difficult for many. We lost so much during the previous 12 months. Not only were we catapulted in what seems like an alternative reality once observed in sci-fi films and series but we were also confronted with ourselves whilst we had nowhere else to run to. Throughout this time, in what can only be described as isolation, we weren’t able to get a false sense of distraction of community that is found whilst being in the midst of others but were just t