Albums
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AlbumsSlash - Slash
It’s not hard to look humble next to Axl Rose, but Slash takes it to new heights by making a bit-part player of himself on his own solo album. Typicall... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsThree Blind Wolves - The Sound of the Storm
Ross Clark’s first album You Brought Evil (2009) was one of significant promise: a spacious, nebulous record, built around the Glaswegian singer’... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsThe Futureheads - The Chaos
“Art”, novelist John Cheever reckoned, “is the triumph over chaos.” With a title track that lyrically rails against political apathy ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsThe Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
If, for the sake of your own musical sanity, you've been cherry-picking the finest of The Fall’s twenty-eight album output so far, then Your Future Our... Read more »| 08 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsPeggy Sue - Fossils and Other Phantoms
With a number of name changes – from Peggy Sue and the Pirates through ‘and the Pictures’, to now, simply, Peggy Sue - not to mention three... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsCypress Hill - Rise Up
“In 1991, an artist in Compton picked up Cypress Hill’s debut album. What he heard blew him away; the futuristic funk with a diehard dedication t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010
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AlbumsLimozine - Evil Love
Evil Love is a spluttering tip of the cap to old school rock n' roll, which sees London-based quartet, Limozine dole out chunky three chord struts wh... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsShe & Him - Volume Two
While adjustments have been made, She & Him’s sophomore release is very much an extension of their first. A choir of merrily chirruping Zooeys and ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsWhiplash - Losing Control
Australian MC, Whiplash, doesn't so much spit rhymes as dribble them, drooling nearly indecipherable vocal trails that are nearly all lost in a maze of gawdy... Read more »| 04 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsOfficer Kicks - Citywide Curfew
Remember the music of The Winter Olympics? That was Officer Kicks. What about the interludes on Soccer AM? Also Officer Kicks. Even if you don’t recal... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsWoodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten
Written in Berlin, contemplating the lives of his Austrian/German grandparents with one eye on his former home of Edinburgh, Canadian songwriter Mark... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsSparrow and the Workshop – Crystals Fall
It’s understandable that Sparrow and the Workshop want their best songs to adorn what is absolutely, definitely their debut album this time around. The... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsJaguar Love – Hologram Jams
Oozing with brash stabs of dirty synth and riddled with some truly ear-piercing, almost glam rock vocal screeches, Hologram Jams – the second album fro... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
AlbumsSlaraffenland - We're On Your Side
What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsSweet Apple - Love and Desperation
Whilst nothing can fully erase the pain of losing a loved one, getting asked to join a band with J. Mascis is probably a pretty good distraction by anyone's ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010