Albums
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AlbumsAudio Bullys – Higher Than The Eiffel
Purveyors of laddish dance music and grammatically incorrect pluralisation, Audio Bullys are back, and despite the mainstream success of dubstep in their abs... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBlack Francis - Nonstoperotik
Having reverted to his Pixies-era moniker of Black Francis in 2007 – in a move that fooled precisely no one – Nonstoperotik finds flaccid... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBlood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
New album from unnervingly pretty Brighton duo, Blood Red Shoes. Read more »| 17 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsJosiah Wolf - Jet Lag
Those who unfairly balked at Eskimo Snow’s perceived middle-age spread would do well to skip Why? drummer Josiah Wolf’s first solo effort. Why?&r... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsUlrich Schnauss - Missing Deadlines (Selected Remixes)
What makes Missing Deadlines great is that, if you knew neither Ulrich Schnauss’ signature style nor any of the remixed original tracks, you’d be... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsJohnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
In Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash found perhaps his most sympathetic producer and for the most part Ain't No Grave is as candid and bare-bones as anything from the ... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010
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AlbumsJoanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Most musicians will never have to follow an album like Ys. Unwinding across three discs, the epic Have One On Me develops the ideas bubbling within its intim... Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBroken Bells - Broken Bells
What do you get when you cross the creative force behind a soft-spoken indie/pop/alt country collective and a sonic whiz kid with a list of collaborators as ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsCocos Lovers – Johannes
There’s an unquestionably familial feel to their debut album, rendering Johannes more of a songs-around-the-campfire piece Read more »| 06 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsLaura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone from a hon... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsWooden Shjips - Vol. 2
Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a forty yea... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBonobo - Black Sands
There are a few new strands woven into the tapestry of Simon Green’s Bonobo. The surprises start with Kiara Prelude, whose lush strings drop in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsBarren Earth - Curse Of The Red River
Barren Earth are a Finnish melodic-death-metal supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Amorphis, Swallow The Sun and Moonsorrow, as well as guitarist Sami ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsAutechre - Oversteps
Having aggressively tested the limits of loop-based electronic music with the diamond-perfect vignettes of 2008's Quaristice, Oversteps finds Autechre revisi... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
AlbumsTo Rococo Rot - Speculation
For their eighth album, To Rococo Rot maintain their established aesthetic - impersonal atmosphere, sparingly stocked with isolating electronics and ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010