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Things In Herds - Nothing Is Lost
Far-flung Fence alumni, Things In Herds (aka Pete Lush and, er, Miss Ping) find the electro variant of their folk-pop largely jettisoned on this, their fourt... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Ossians - The MacPherson Tapes
The story behind The MacPherson Tapes is a damn site more interesting than the music itself. This may sound callous, but when you consider The Ossians are in... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsThe Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Side-projects: for the artist who just can't fit his talent/ego within one band. So we have Jack White letting his inner Led Zep fanboy roam free in The Raco... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsThe Futureheads - This Is Not The World
It may seem exaggerated to call this a comeback, given that The Futureheads only crashed on to the scene with their self-titled debut some four years ago, bu... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Fighting Cocks - Music for Lapdancers
Remember the end of Blazing Saddles? When the big cowboy punch-up finale spills over into the studio next door where a load of tap-dancing top hatters join i... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
The Charlatans, along with the Manics and Oases of this world, are a band content to plough the same musical furrow ad infinitum. And while perseverance shou... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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Subtle - ExitingARM
The best thing about Subtle's 2005 thriller For Hero:For Fool was that it was anything but their name: it was explosive and agile, and despite the density of... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsStapleton - Rest and Be Thankful
“All good things must come to an end,” laments Stapleton’s Al Paxton on Absent Friends, apparently prepared to ride the cliché. Havi... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Shooting At Unarmed Men - Triptych
That the harrowing opening few seconds of Triptych threaten to carbon copy Mclusky is unlikely to be accidental; singer Jon Chapple was behind the Welsh nois... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Scott Kelly - The Wake
Taking fellow Neurosis member Steve Von Till’s lead, Scott Kelly deconstructs his day job’s collapsing (new) buildings sound down to just voice a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Pendulum - In Silico
When your debut album brings drum ‘n’ bass to the indie kids and suffers the inevitable purist backlash it can become difficult to maintain your ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsOrkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast
These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will deli... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
AlbumsGrey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic beast.... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Drive By Argument - Drive-By Argument
Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to propose th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Boris - Smile
Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the best b... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008