Albums
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AlbumsShrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsBlueflint - High Bright Morning
With First Aid Kit spearheading the current 'traditional' revival within mainstream folk, the time seems ripe for talented Edinburgh duo Blueflint to cross o... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsViolet Violet - The City is Full of Beasts
At its heart, punk ditched glam spectacle for raw emotion, rejecting bourgeois musical virtuosity because it had nothing to say to the disaffected yo... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsThe Kabeedies - Rumpus
The Kabeedies are not a band, they're a collection of new wave robots -seemingly powered by sherbert dip and cherry coke- who bang out pop with such single m... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsX-Ray Spex - Live @ The Roundhouse 2008
Punk firebrands don’t die, they congeal. It’s an increasingly familiar tale: if the option of a reunion isn’t snuffed out by death’s ... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
AlbumsRoddy Hart - Sign Language
Roddy Hart’s first album featured Kris Kristofferson vocals - not bad for a Glaswegian new-start. Three years later, Sign Language eschews grizzled cel... Read more »| 04 Nov 2009
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AlbumsAlice Russell - Pot of Gold
Alice Russell’s fourth album looked like it might not happen – the collapse of a distribution company a year ago left it, perhaps metaphorically,... Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsPablo - Turntable Technology
A genre defying double debut album from Pablo, the man behind the soundtrack to Scottish success story Grand Theft Auto. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsThemselves - CrownsDown
Anticon's crown jewel returns with The No Music of Boom-Bap Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsDigital Leather - Warm Brother
Opening up with a field-recording of wounded analogue synths weeping in deep space before segueing into a dirge about self-destruction on an island of pain i... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsBeaten Awake - Thunder$troke
Great bands always add up to more than the sum of their parts. Given the pedigree of Beaten Awake's membership (they're ostensibly the cream of the Ohio indi... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsKing Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
One can’t accuse King Khan or Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) of laziness: following their Almighty Defenders ‘supergroup’ LP, the pair fire off Invi... Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsAdrian Crowley - Season of the Sparks
The trees may be bare and the nights all-encompassing, but comfort at least can be found in the fact that people are still making heartfelt and generous reco... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsOwen Tromans & The Elders - The Fall of Acre
According to the press release, this is an album of two movements. Perhaps predictably, all the big guns are saved for the second half, which, despite buildi... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
AlbumsTori Amos - Midwinter Graces
An unabashed attempt to bring some credibility to surely one of the most teeth-gritting genres known Read more »| 26 Oct 2009