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Alex Cornish

The Dirty Dozen - September, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Sep 2008

Nick Mitchell: The Dirty Dozen does like a band to seduce it a bit. So when newly-formed Londoners Rock City Sixteen send in a 7" of Lunettes Noires Pour Nuits Blanche (****, 8 Sep) in appropriate black and white design with creative press release, I am easily swayed...

Nacional

The Dirty Dozen - August, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Aug 2008

Nick Mitchell: Punk is all the rage - on the evidence of the first two singles this month anyway. The King Blues are a London act who project a renagade, guerilla-gigging image. Let's Hang The Landlord (1star, 4 Aug), however, is just punk caricature, with its talk o...

Attic Lights

The Dirty Dozen - July, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Jul 2008

Nick Mitchell: To look at bespectacled Glaswegian Ross Clark, you might expect him to be a modest, sensitive, home-spun folkster. But, au contraire, Silversword (4stars, out now) is a raucous, joyous, full-band-with-horns blitzkrieg, taking the populist bent of The F...

The Twlight Sad

The Dirty Dozen - June, 2008

Records :: Feature :: Round Up 02 Jun 2008

Nick Mitchell: In a special edition of The Dirty Dozen, we let The Skinny's band of 2007, The Twilight Sad, sound off on this month's singles. We knew this could have gotten ugly, and it did...James Graham (Vocals) Andy MacFarlane (Guitar) Craig Orzel (Bass) THE R...

Ida Maria

The Dirty Dozen - May, 2008

Records :: Round Up 26 Apr 2008

Nick Mitchell: Most agree that the indie-fication of pop has been a change for the better. Except, that is, when bands like The Pigeon Detectives bring their knuckle-dragging post-Libertine shtick to the table with new single This Is An Emergency (2stars, 5 May). A r...

Blood Red Shoes

The Dirty Dozen - April, 2008

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Apr 2008

Nick Mitchell: Pitched somewhere between O Brother Where Art Thou? and The Pogues, The Ballad of Bess Houdini (3stars, 7 Apr) by Paul Vickers and The Leg is nothing if not intriguing. So we've established that SL Records have an ear for quirky, beatnik troubadours. T...

M.I.A

The Dirty Dozen - March

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 06 Mar 2008

Nick Mitchell: Was Everything I Do the soundtrack to your first game of school disco tonsil tennis? Then I'll be kind. I Thought I'd Seen Everything (2stars, 10 Mar) heralds Adams as the new Bob Dylan. In a parallel universe where Dylan wrote infantile, wuvvy-duvvy s...

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

The Dirty Dozen - February

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 05 Feb 2008

Nick Mitchell: Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong may have a ridiculous name, but they've already been tagged as a band on the rise in 2008. No surprise on the evidence of Lonely Buoy (3stars, 18 Feb), with its Bloc Party pace and Cribs-y guitars. With the exception o...

The Mae Shi

The Dirty Dozen - January

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 06 Jan 2008

Nick Mitchell: Plenty of new music to sample this month, but before the new come the seasoned veterans, though you could hardly call Sons And Daughters fogies and Darling (4 stars, 14 Jan) is another winner from the best exponents of Spector-meets-Cave guitar-pop. Th...

The Dirty Dozen - December

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 07 Dec 2007

Nick Mitchell: Part I – Indie. Maxïmo Park switch down a gear from their usual breakneck post-punk for Karaoke Plays (3 stars, 3 Dec), another razor-edged but same-y track from Our Earthly Pleasures. Next it's down to Alan Partridge country with Norwich's ...

The Dirty Dozen - November

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 07 Nov 2007

Nick Mitchell: In the spirit of The Skinny's commitment to even-handed criticism, Michael Bublé's Lost (1star, 12 Nov) was given a fair listen, and after careful consideration, was found to be… absolute guff. David Gray may be about to impose his Greatest H...

The Dirty Dozen - October

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Round Up 08 Oct 2007

Nick Mitchell: Getting us off to a bad start, Daughtry are a distasteful concoction of American Idol runner-up, faux-metal session band and rawk schmaltz. A sickbag should be included with Home (1/5) [29 Oct]. They may possess more authenticity than Daughtry, but per...