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SinglesBrigada Mercy - Recovering Catholic/Roto Chico
The double A-side from this Yorkshire trio mixes the nasal assault of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong with elements of rustic, Eastern European folk. Now, t... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
SinglesHumanzi - Bass Balls
Given past musical associations, it's not massively surprising when Bass Balls comes thundering out of your speakers with all the hedonistic momentum of QOTS... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
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We The Faceless - Isle Of Dogs
Isle Of Dog's dirty, chugging riff, sluggishly bursts into life like a fat man hopping through a ring of fire. It is meaty, I'll give it that, but once you g... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
SinglesThe Dirty Dozen - August, 2009
This month's CD stack runs the gamut from East Neuk folk to South London hip-hop. Nick Mitchell packs his earphones for the journey Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
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Kasms - Absent Without Leave/Murmur
London Quartet get dark with impressive double A-side. Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
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Pastels/Tenniscoats – Vivid Youth / About You
The pairing of Glasgow indie darlings The Pastels with Japanese avant-gardists Tenniscoats might seem like an oddly exotic match-up. But in actual fact Steph... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009
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Lonely Ghosts - Come Down From The Mountain/Ghosts of
Solo effort from Brighton musician, formerly of Help She Can't Swim Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
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Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
Unless The Jonas Brothers are anonymously working on a double album of folk-inspired death metal, this is undoubtedly the most unusual musical alter-ego of 2... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
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The Twilight Sad – I Became A Prostitute
Anyone worried that The Twilight Sad might have lost some of their feral power in the two years since Fourteen Autumns would have been partly reassured by th... Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
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The Low Miffs - The Man Who Took On Love (And Won)
For those who've whiled away nanoseconds pondering just how Scott Walker and David Bowie might have sounded had they formed a surf guitar band, The Low Miffs... Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
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Reverend & The Makers - Silence is Talking
After a summer supporting Oasis, John McClure and his Makers return with Silence Is Talking, which, if you can forgive the lack of originality and a shameles... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
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The Domino State- Firefly
It’s a well known but perhaps unspoken rule that to plagiarise U2 will not make you popular with the critical press but may sell you a few records. Th... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
SinglesDjango James & The Midnight Squires - Hurricane
Django James fancies himself as a fast-living ingénue, and his band’s debut single, Hurricane (sample lyric: “my eyes are rolling backward... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
SinglesThe High Plane Drifters - Sweet Poppy Jean
Whatever else you might think of their gleefully inept garage shtick, you can’t say the High Plane Drifters haven’t swotted up on their rock heri... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
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Mastodon's Dirty Dozen – July, 2009
Our Music Editor sits down with prog metal monoliths Mastodon to devour a box of Tunnock's Tea Cakes and sift through July’s singles Read more »| 01 Jul 2009