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AlbumsCornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
AlbumsStill Flyin' – On a Bedroom Wall
The second LP from San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ takes its cues from the dreamy atmospheres of understated 80s indie; the textures of opener Els... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
AlbumsDead Mellotron – Glitter
Given the celebrated output of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound foreman Bradford Cox, it’s surprising just how few imitators he has. There’s good reason fo... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
AlbumsWill Dutta – Parergon
Though the majority of Parergon is centred on the piano, subtle droning electronic frequencies, echo effects and even schizophrenic Venetian Snares-style... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
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Bang On! – [sic]
The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming dire... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Taffy – Caramel Sunset
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penite... Read more »| 02 May 2012
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Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can&... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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I Like Trains – The Shallows
It would be too easy to write off I Like Trains as post-rock also-rans; over the last five years the Leeds outfit have flirted with the notion of a breakthro... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Mummy Short Arms – Old Jack's Windowless Playhouse
In an ideal world, Mummy Short Arms would have called in Steve Albini to produce their debut album. He would have been the man to capture the full intensit... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Bigg Jus – Machines That Make Civilization Fun
Lyrically, Bigg Jus hasn't switched up the formula much for Machines – his flows are still acerbic, passionate attacks on inequality and established p... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
These are bleak times for the mid-Noughties’ bright young things: The Libertines are a spent force, Razorlight have collapsed under Jonny Borrell&rsquo... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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El-P – Cancer4Cure
It's been five years since El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead. There's not much point prefixing anything the rapper/producer behind the Definitive Jux l... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Garbage – Not Your Kind of People
Garbage have never been a band of much substance but at their peak they produced some brilliantly damaged pop music. Not Your Kind of People conten... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Marilyn Manson – Born Villain
Marilyn Manson was a force to be reckoned with back in the 1990s, but despite being hailed as a ‘comeback’ album by Manson himself, Born Vil... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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French Wives – Dreams of the Inbetween
Glasgow five-piece French Wives describe Dreams of the Inbetween as “finally sounding how we always wanted to sound.” It’s how we want the... Read more »| 01 May 2012