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AlbumsBigg 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 -
AlbumsThe 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 -
AlbumsEl-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 -
AlbumsMarilyn 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
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Squarepusher – Ufabulum
“As much as Warp would love to nail me down to a plan, it’s not the way I do it... that’s why my career is such a mess,” said Tom Jen... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
AlbumsBeach House – Bloom
It’s starting to feel like Beach House’s ‘time.’ 2010’s Teen Dream saw the Baltimore duo begin to emerge from under the shadow ... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Damon Albarn – Dr Dee
Damon Albarn's Dr Dee began life as an opera, debuting at the Manchester International Festival last year. As an album, the lack of visual material does hi... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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BONG – Mana-Yood-Sushai
Composed of two lengthy, texturally linked pieces, BONG's latest – the orientally-flavoured Mana-Yood-Sushai – is played out as an enchantingly ... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Slugabed – Time Team
Welding a playful axe to electronic music of the past, the young and rising star of Slugabed, aka Gregory Feldwick, has revealed a penchant for dressing up... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Nick Waterhouse – Time's All Gone
Although only 25, San Francisco’s Nick Waterhouse excavates the roots of American popular music with an unnervingly obsessive attention to detail. In... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly su... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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One Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
Envisioned as a sonic voyage through the vast and barren reaches of the North Pole, this collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist Fréd&eacu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012