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Dolores O'Riordan - No Baggage
In a weird way, former Cranberries frontwoman Dorlores O'Riordan has something in common with Eddie Vedder, her crooning being as divisive as Vedder's grunge... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
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Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
Finally the worldwide drought of pop-punk is over. God knows it's literally been hours since our last fix of pseudo-snot-spitting, major-chord-playing, long-... Read more »| 06 Aug 2009 -
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The Drug Models Love - Slow Hope Parade
Recording under the pseudonym of The Drug Models Love, New York based Kevin McGinnis certainly has his marketing down, with a name that promises bleak-chic c... Read more »| 06 Aug 2009 -
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Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
Black Mountaineers fail to scale the lofty heights of the past, but occasionally impress Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
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Mos Def - The Ecstatic
From Red and Meth to Cube and Common, Hollywood has sanded the edges away from too many MCs who've dared to court her over the years. Proving a rare exceptio... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
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Plum - Different Skin
Benbecula Records [sadly closing its doors in November - ed] can always be relied upon to deliver the offbeat, the oddball and the out-of-the-ordinary, and t... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009
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Nurses - Apple's Acre
A beautiful blend of Animal Collective and Yeasayer that comes highly recommended. Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
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Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans are pissed off. Pissed off that they're becoming the white collar drones they swore to Tyler Durden they’d never be. Pissed off about havi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
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Nodzzz - Nodzzz
For some, music is a very serious subject. Just ask your average self-harming, old-school Nine Inch Nails fan or the straight-edge guys that tossed coffee on... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
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InMe - Herald Moth
Having existed for some 13 years and counting, InMe’s fourth full length follows on from Daydream Anonymous, the Essex quartet's most critically acclai... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
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The xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
A deliberate reaction to recent folk-mutations, Folk Songs sees James Yorkston take time out from his work with The Athletes to record eleven traditional tra... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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Sir Vincent Lone - Troubadour Heart
Jackie Leven kills off his musical pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone and consequently produces a ‘posthumous’ album that’s actually better than th... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
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Yim Yames - A Tribute To George Harrison
It may appeal most to devoted My Morning Jacket fans, but this six song requiem for George Harrison deserves a wider audience. Recorded solo and acousticall... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
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Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009