Albums
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AlbumsWater Liars – Water Liars
There's a burning passion comparable to the earlier recordings of My Morning Jacket scattered across Water Liars' third, self-titled full-length, but the air... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsSkaters – Manhattan
Ignore the shuffle of primitive syn-drums that raise the curtain here. They’re little more than a flutter of false promise, swiftly giving way to the S... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsReal Estate – Atlas
Last album Days seemed to unexpectedly catapult Ridgewood, New Jersey natives Real Estate to the top table of American indie. Atlas largely follows a similar... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsSudden Death of Stars – All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown
Everything the Sudden Death of Stars do is not so much tinged but teeming with a sepia tone. The Rennes sextet exist in that increasingly inclusive realm of ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsJohnny Foreigner – You Can Do Better
Diminishing returns? Nah. Johnny Foreigner may plead ignorance as to why they still haven’t mellowed out by this fourth record, but it’s false mo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsBill Pritchard – A Trip to the Coast
Staffordshire-born songwriter Bill Pritchard has been releasing music intermittently since the eighties, though if the name doesn’t ring bells it&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014
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AlbumsWe Are Scientists – TV en Francais
The inexplicably titled TV en Français is, supposedly, the fourth studio LP from New York indie buds We Are Scientists (if we ignore 2002’s quir... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsVertical Scratchers – Daughter of Everything
Few garage/indie records employ the less-is-more principle with quite as much commitment and effectiveness as the debut from this LA duo. John Schmersal (gui... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsStanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures – Gin
Named after the drink that fuelled its recording, Stanley Brinks’ third collaboration with The Wave Pictures is a somewhat untidy collection that in it... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsThe Birthday Suit – A Hollow Hole of Riches
As far as fan gestures go, trying to force a band reunion by boycotting the members’ other musical outlets is neither the most gracious nor thoughtful.... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsTrust – Joyland
The sophomore offering from Trust is a solo endeavour for lynchpin Robert Alfons, with Maya Postepski having left the Toronto project shortly after their deb... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsMetronomy – Love Letters
Where The English Riviera was a love letter to British seasides, Love Letters is, well, you can guess. The titular track, with a female chorus cooing ‘... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsWithered Hand – New Gods
With a title that near-anagrams its 2009 precursor Good News, New Gods sees Withered Hand (aka Edinburgh-based songwriter Dan Willson) gently shuffle aspects... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsRaleigh – Sun Grenades & Grenadine Skies
Sun Grenades and Grenadine Skies, the second outing by Calgary band Raleigh, is an Aladdin’s cave of styles and ideas. Ostensibly, the band is a folk t... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
AlbumsDavidge – Slo Light
He has produced for Massive Attack, David Bowie, Primal Scream and others, but this is Neil Davidge's first solo album. Rooted in the architecture and aesthe... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014