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AlbumsQueens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age: Special Edition
In early 1998 Dave Grohl went on record naming then-unknown Californian outfit Queens Of The Stone Age as his favourite band on the planet. If that provoked ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
AlbumsThe Chapman Family – Burn Your Town
It’s unfortunate that Joy Division are continually denigrated as the template for disaffected artists such as The Chapman Family. This lot make White L... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
AlbumsThe View – Bread & Circuses
While Mogwai and Biffy Clyro have made the success of Scottish acts less of a novelty, there’s still an odd mix of pride and all-round smugness at seei... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
There is a poignancy to every track of Build A Rocket Boys, and a sparseness that stands in contrast to 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid. As with all of Elbow's wo... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
AlbumsParts & Labor – Constant Future
Labelling Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor an “experimental noise-rock band” is one more reason to take user-edited encyclopaedias with a pinch... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
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Wild Palms – Until Spring
Although we are assured that London's Wild Palms subsisted on “a diet of Beefheart, The Fall, Can, and Wire” while working on the songs that comp... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011
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AlbumsBloodlights – Simple Pleasures
Say what you will about Norway, but they know how to make exceedingly good rock’n’roll. Perhaps the reason for this is that they believe, deep in... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Wagon Christ – Toomorrow
Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ project has been ploughing a deceptively narrow furrow for well over a decade now. It's a breezy, upbeat sound: jazzy breaks, trip... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Port-Royal – 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
Genoa's Port-Royal have been mining a vein lying somewhere between symphonic, free-floating post-rock and melodic electronica for over ten years now; The Gol... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Come On Gang! – Strike A Match
The foreword to Come On Gang!’s story was penned in a tiny music room at Edinburgh College of Art, where the band met in 2007; from there they have bee... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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FOUND – Factorycraft
With their recent win of Creative Scotland's Vital Spark award and third album Factorycraft being given a leg-up by the ever daring Chemikal Underground, Edi... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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The Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo
Buffalo starts uncharacteristically with the drifting psychedelia-lite of Eventually, its laid-back vibe redolent of a long musical lineage stretching back d... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
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Marianne Faithfull – Horses and High Heels
47 years is a hell of a career for anyone, but Marianne Faithfull’s 24th album is as strong as anything she has ever written. To say written isn’... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
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Vessels – Helioscope
Take equal parts Minus the Bear and Mogwai and what do you have? Aside from the recipe for a great night out, you have Vessels’ Helioscope, only the se... Read more »| 21 Feb 2011 -
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Nasty P – Choosers Can't Be Beggars
If Scotland had a hip-hop Hall of Fame, then Edinburgh's Nasty P would surely merit a mention – if not for his long-standing club night Soul Biscuits, ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2011