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AlbumsSuper Adventure Club - Chalk Horror!
Super Adventure Club know it's no fun playing serious music if you have to take it seriously Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsBroken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All of Us
Ally Brown gets into the messy business of combining chat with critique in an effort to dissect Brendan Canning's debut solo LP to find that the BSS co-founder doesn't quite get by with a little help from his friends on this occasion Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Icarus - Monologues
In a funny twist of fate, this writer has been handed Monologues, the debut album from Edinburgh-outfit Icarus, for review, having just critiqued Daedelus&rs... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsCapitol 1212 - Sampler
You don't really hear an awful lot about Scottish hip-hop these days, but if the output from Capitol 1212, the production duo consisting of Edinburgh-based D... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
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Plush - Fed
If you stop to listen, there’s just a hint of that promised genius mumbled amidst his rant Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
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Green Peppers - Adventures in the Slipstream
An album safe to cosy up to, if not to entirely enliven the spirits Read more »| 13 Aug 2008
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AlbumsEarlimart - Hymn and Her
Returning with their sixth album, Earlimart continue to craft Death Cab-lite songs heavy on oh-so-sincere soporific sensitivity but light on anything with th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
AlbumsBowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Winds its way through a faintly Slavic wilderness, trailing alluring poetry behind Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
‘Soundtrack’, it seems, is the operative word for this second album from antipodean electro-garage rockers Pivot. Opening duo In The Blood and th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
Whitney's shrill squealing does the otherwise fine instrumentation on this debut album from Jaguar Love absolutely no favours Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
The world needs activists like Franti Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Local H - Twelve Angry Months
A year of post-break-up recriminations and misery via the medium of some fairly MOR rock music Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
After seeing this band perform, I came into this review with a bit of bias: The band takes the stage in matching vintage-store garb (think the look of Sufjan... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
Opener Altered Beast is exhausting, winding its way from math to post influences whilst covering a range of emotional ground Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
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Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Ten Thousand
Gruff, whiskey-soaked men touting a spit ’n’ sawdust, knuckle-bruising, bluegrass bar-room stomp Read more »| 07 Aug 2008