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AlbumsThe Blood Arm – Turn and Face Me
As one would expect of Franz Ferdinand's favourite band, an endorsement which may or may not be decreasing in value with each passing year, Los Angeles quart... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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 -
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Brian 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 -
AlbumsChilly 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 -
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Cats 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 -
AlbumsDananananaykroyd – 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