Albums
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Albums++Money Can't Buy Music - The Universe for Beginners
Gordon McIntyre has steadfastedly ploughed the emotive indie furrow since the late 1990s in the guise of ballboy, but here branches out into a collaboration ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsThe Dodos - Time to Die
Second album syndrome shouldn’t affect The Dodos’ latest LP - Time to Die is actually the San Francisco outfit’s third studio recording. Ye... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsChuck Ragan - Gold Country
Citing “musical differences” after a band splits is generally doublespeak aimed at sparing blushes until the bloody truth makes its inevitable ap... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsWithered Hand - Good News
By the time Edinburgh's Withered Hand opens Good News's final track with "maybe the world would be better without me", you'll want to give him a slap and tel... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsThe Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
The addition of iconic Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr brings discernible maturity to the structure of The Cribs' fourth album. While still guitar-heavy and fra... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsMaps – Turning the Mind
On Maps’ Mercury nominated debut album, bedroom recording prodigy James Chapman sounded like an especially blissed-out shoegazer (if such a paradox is ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009
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AlbumsMisty Roses - Villainess
Phil Spector’s influence lives on in this swooping ’60s-style orchestral pop that fans of Richard Hawley or the Last Shadow Puppets will lap up. ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsDialog - Run Silent Run Deep
This is for those who love returning home mashed up after a nightclub, passing round a spliff and sticking on some chillout. Does anyone still do that? I&rsq... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsDave Cloud and the Gospel of Power - Fever
Dave Cloud might now resemble an off-season Santa Claus, but his sound is anything but festive. The portly, bearded Nashville veteran is in the vein of myste... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsVladislav Delay - Tummaa
Vladislav Delay, aka Sasu Ripatti, writes the type of music that causes parents to wail “but it's just random noise!”, while persevering connoiss... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsDolores 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 -
AlbumsBroadway 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 -
AlbumsThe 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 -
AlbumsLightning Dust - Infinite Light
Black Mountaineers fail to scale the lofty heights of the past, but occasionally impress Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
AlbumsMos 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