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AlbumsBricolage - Bricolage
Bricolage are unashamedly in thrall to Scottish indie from the 1980s. There's no denying that the Glasgow-based foursome can pull off a convincing Orange Jui... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsOkker - Two Axes
Winter is a bad time to be promoting underground music. The sheer quantity of rubbish that crams the shelves of music stores turns even the most discerning c... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
AlbumsDälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009
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AlbumsPPP - Abundance
It's been just over ten years since The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, an album that didn't so much take the tropes of R n' B and subvert them, as rip up the r... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
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Nickel Eye – The Time Of The Assassins
A satisfying work of homespun folk-rock Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Scott Weiland – “Happy” in Galoshes
Although known more for his excesses than his music for too long now, it seems Scott Weiland had a weighty pop rock album in him all along. With guest appear... Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
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Dualist - We Are You
Ostensibly, the title of Dualist’s debut album - We Are You - is the type of rote everyman declaration frequently uttered by new kids on the bl... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009 -
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The Bronx - The Bronx (III)
A solid, if acutely predictable, rock album Read more »| 05 Jan 2009 -
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Women - Women
It's a bit tragic when something with such an awesome cover turns out to be so disappointing Read more »| 02 Jan 2009 -
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The Irrepressibles - From the Circus to the Sea
Soundtracking Shelly Love's film of forgotten circus players, Jamie McDermott assembles an orchestra to fulfil his fantastic musical dreams. Inter-song motif... Read more »| 02 Jan 2009 -
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Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - 4th Dimension
With his Andy Warhol glasses, black polo-necks and album titles like Beyond The Stars, it would be easy to dismiss Jimi Tenor as just a groovy lounge lizard.... Read more »| 19 Dec 2008 -
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Penelope sulla Luna - My Little Empire
An admirable piece of work that could translate beautifully to a live setting Read more »| 19 Dec 2008