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AlbumsAlex Skolnick Trio – Veritas
By their fourth album, most bands would already have the bottom of the barrel well and truly scraped, but for Alex Skolnick’s jazz trinity this is prob... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsShonen Knife – Free Time
Despite multiple line-up changes, Shonen Knife’s set up and style has been unswerving across their thirty year existence: three girls, three chords, an... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsBrian Eno – Drums Between the Bells
Drums Between the Bells is the latest in Brian Eno’s long list of collaborative works, kick-started in 2003 with poet Rick Holland and featuring a revo... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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Chilly Gonzales – The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
“It’s entertainment but if you listen the genius is in the arrangements,” our virtuoso pianist and aspiring rapper takes to critiquing hims... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
AlbumsCats and Cats and Cats – Mother Whale
Much like label-mates Shield Your Eyes, there is an underlying core of almost classic songmanship to Cats and Cats and Cats, but it lies so deep beneath the ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Junior Boys – It's All True
It’s All True was written and recorded in Shanghai, Berlin and Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton goes without saying; it’s the town the Boys call home.... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011
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Gardens & Villa – Gardens & Villa
Gardens & Villa’s debut album is frustratingly half-baked, rendering successes such as Thorn Castles’ Shins-esque ditty and opener Black Hill... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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The Wrong Boyfriends – Wrong Fucking Century Darling
With a packing-crate full of irreverent, if oddly relevant, lyrics and a sound that doesn’t know whether it’s worshipping Nick Cave or The Clash,... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Hey Colossus – RRR
Despite churning albums out at a startling rate, the quality control on Hey Colossus’ assembly line of acid-doom rarely dips below the magic mark... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Richard Anthony Jay – Imperfect Beauty
During the recording of Imperfect Beauty, Richard Anthony Jay apparently had “music theory textbooks never far from his side”, which anecdotally ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Las Kellies – Kellies
There are few words more abhorrent than ‘sassy’, loaded as it is with US sitcom clichés, but it’s difficult to find a more appropria... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Various Artists – The Tolbooth Sessions 2011
Bono and Lars Ulrich no doubt remain unimpressed with the impact of new patterns of music consumption on their LP sales; for new bands, however, the heighten... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
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Dananananaykroyd – There Is A Way
With the gut-punching intensity of their 2009 debut and those kinetic, literally bone-breaking shows, it’s perhaps not surprising that Dananananaykroyd... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
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Foster the People – Torches
Foster the People’s sudden popularity and indie-disco affinities have prompted comparisons to MGMT, a resemblance sustained by their debut&rsqu... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
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Zomby – Dedication
Despite a reputation for egotism and extreme unreliabilty in actually turning up to his own shows, Zomby has been lauded frequently as a 'genius' of the UK e... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011