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AlbumsFriendly Fires - Friendly Fires
If James Murphy started a clubnight - while The Rapture and !!! were out of town, of course - then surely Friendly Fires would be his choice for house band Read more »| 29 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsRose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Shock! Gothic rock! Played in a way that isn't entirely unfashionable. Read more »| 29 Aug 2008 -
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James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In
Swaggers with the magnificent romance of a wedding ceremony aboard a storm-tossed trawler Read more »| 28 Aug 2008 -
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Jacopo Carreras - From Bed to Couch
It’s pretty remarkable when an album lives up to its press release, but with From Bed to Couch Jacopo Carreras has managed to create an intriguing synt... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Clouds - We Are Above You
From amidst this curly forest of wifebeater-clad, hardcore aggression protrudes a huge, hard-rock priapism Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Fujiya & Miyagi - Light Bulbs
Every noise Fujiya & Miyagi make is for rhythmic effect Read more »| 27 Aug 2008
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Lustmord - Other
Must surely qualify as hard work for even the most determined experimentalist Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsThe French Quarter - We're Not French
We’re Not French transcends The French Quarter beyond the typical new-band confines marked “one for the future” and slaps them squarely into the realms of brilliance Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsLords of Bastard - Lords of Bastard
Sadly, this recording makes it nearly impossible to appreciate these grooves at their knee-shaking best Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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V/A - Ziggy Marley in Jamaica
Ziggy Marley was born in Trenchtown, Jamaica in 1968, the same year Toots & The Maytals released the seminal single Do The Reggay. It might seem like sta... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Glasvegas - Glasvegas
A debut that ultimately proves to be determinedly heavyweight Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
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King Khan and The Shrines - The Supreme Genius of...
A must for rock revivalists Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsBallboy – I Worked On The Ships
Album number five, I Worked On The Shops looks set to continue Ballboy’s trend of garnering chin-stroking acclamation Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
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The Foundling Wheel - The Foundling Wheel
A one man wail of screeching banshee sonics, San Francisco-born Ted Koterwas’ debut LP fucks and sucks its way into the skull’s decomposing grey matter Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
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Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell
Taking inspiration from her historical, rural surroundings, borders lass Karine Polwart has produced a thought provokingly poetic, bittersweet album Read more »| 22 Aug 2008