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AlbumsMurcof - The Versailles Sessions
Out there, up in the musical stratosphere, lies a crossover point for musical experimentation that shipwrecks journalists, and makes a mockery of all those q... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
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Andy Lang and The Well - The House that Jack Built
This sweet little collection of tunes takes you to a warm and wondrous place: crackling, crunching open fires, good friends and warm and delightful smiles. ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
AlbumsWhiskyCats - WhiskyCats
WhiskyCats play a sort of world-influenced knees-up skiffle, a sound that places them on the dangerously fine line between quirky and annoying. It’s a ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
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Lorna Reid - Gypsy In My Soul
It’s difficult to fault the execution of Lorna Reid’s album of jazz standards –classy, conservative and impeccably performed, everything sounds exactly as on... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
AlbumsShapeshifter - Soulstice
Do you really need me to tell you what this sounds like? It’s called Soulstice. Punny names like “souled out” and “phunked up” ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2008 -
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Semaphore - Semaphore
Mark Lanegan, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, that scary bloke from Crash Test Dummies: you can add Semaphore’s Louis Brennan, a 23-year-old Dubliner with the ... Read more »| 04 Dec 2008
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AlbumsHaunts - Haunts
London’s Burning, the track which opens Haunts’ self-titled debut album, begins dreadfully with a rotten mix of faux-goth posturing and Rocky Hor... Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
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Meursault - Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
After a spin of this sublime record only one word will pass your lips: Magnificent. Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
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Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Japan
Word of mouth sensations Rodrigo y Gabriela have been playing to increasingly large venues over the past few years. There’s no doubting the fretboard (... Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
AlbumsAll the Saints - Fire on Corridor X
If you thought that the return of acid house in all its Global Hypercoloured glory made for an unlikely renaissance, a second coming of ‘shoe-grunge&rs... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
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Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West's fourth album is a radical stylistic departure from everything he's done before, but the one thing he has retained from his previous life is his infuriating inconsistency Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
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Jono McCleery - Darkest Light
Apparently, Jono McCleery lives in a barge on the Thames. It’s a very pastoral, romantic choice of accommodation, one which chimes nicely with the unde... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
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Ribbons - Royals
It's a cruel fact of life that some people's pain is a marketable commodity, whereas others just sound like they're whinging crybabies. Jherek Bischoff, a mu... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
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Esther O'Connor - Right Here
Home-grown girlish pop-rock. Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
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Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Scottish indie rockers Glasvegas round off a successful year with their own bleak and distinctive take on that most pointless of concepts, the Christmas mini... Read more »| 27 Nov 2008