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Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
Review of 'Goodnight Oslo' Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3's album released through Proper Records. Given that Robyn Hitchcock has been releasing solo records since the early 1980s (following his stint in The Soft Boys),...
Review posted on 13th March 2009
Vetiver - Tight Knit
Review of Vetiver's album 'Tight Knit' released through Bella Union. Tight Knit is Andy Cabic's fourth album as Vetiver and he has created a 10-headed monster of an album. Somewhat disarmingly, yet somewhat charmingly, Cabic...
Review posted on 4th March 2009
Howling Bells - Into The Chaos
Review of Howling Bells album 'Into The Chaos' released through Independiente.The jury is out on 'Into The Chaos'. One half of the jury have declared it a stupendous number, tugging all the right heartstrings in...
Review posted on 4th March 2009
Passion Pit - Chunk Of Change
Review of Passion Pit's EP Chunk Of Change released through Columbia. Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Passion Pit were swept up into the collective arms of Frenchkiss Records (home to Les Savy Fav and Ex Models)...
Review posted on 23rd February 2009
Ane Brun - Changing of the Seasons
Review of Ane Brun's album Changing Of The Seasons released through Determine Records. Ane Brun's voice and music is sewn into a seam of accomplished songwriters that passes back through Frida Hyvönen, Laura Nyro, Joni...
Review posted on 23rd February 2009
Spinnerette - Ghetto Love
Review of Spinneretteâs EP Ghetto Love released through Anthem. Oh boy. This makes me VERY HAPPY INDEED. For I am among the vast number that have sorely missed Brody Dalleâs dirty purr since The Distillers...
Review posted on 19th February 2009
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Review of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's debut self-titled album released through Furtuna Pop! The Pains of Being Pure At Heart make such a definite and forceful nod towards shoegaze indie bands of...
Review posted on 3rd February 2009
First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees
Review of First Aid Kit's album 'Drunken Trees released through Wichita. Wichita's latest signing, First Aid Kit, consists of two teenage Swedish sisters, Johanna and Klara Söderberg. You Tube footage shows a pair of unassuming,...
Review posted on 2nd February 2009
DeVotchKa - How It Ends
Review of DeVotchka's single 'How It Ends' released through Anti.The PR blurb sticker on DeVotchKa's latest single is VERY KEEN to let you know that 'How It Ends' is featured on some commercial for some...
Review posted on 2nd February 2009
Micachu - Jewellery
Review of Micachu's album Jewellery released through Rough Trade. What's not to like about Mica Levi and her Shapes? Well, if you sever the nerve that is sending the nagging impulse to your brain, telling...
Review posted on 2nd February 2009
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
4:13 Dream album review from The Cure released through Geffen.The Cure are in luck. They are in luck because they are 35 minutes away from the '4:48 Psychosis' flagged up by playwright Sarah Kane (the...
Review posted on 13th November 2008
Euros Childs - Cheer Gone
'Cheer Gone' album review from Euros Childs released through Wichita.Cheer Gone, as with Childs' previous solo outings, are a far cry from the psychedelic non-sense of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci but although you can take the...
Review posted on 13th November 2008
Grammatics - The Vague Archive
Review for Grammatics single The Vague Archive released through Dance To The Radio. Never ones to shy away from their own ambitions, the Grammatics pummel our sensibilities with 'The Vague Archive', an operatic, overarching beast...
Review posted on 13th November 2008
I'm From Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini?
Who Killed Harry Houdini? album review from I'm From Barcelona released through Mute.Not short of a lyrical turn or two (".feelings, you're wearing them like earrings."), I'm From Barcelona make Beach Boys-esque indieasylistening, in the...
Review posted on 13th November 2008
aPAtT - Martin's Quest
Review of the single Martin's Quest by a.P.A.t.T released through Apehat Recordings. Disconcerting before you even hit the 'play' button (namely because iTunes appears to think that this is a Corinne Bailey Rae track, yet...
Review posted on 29th October 2008
Death Vessel - Nothing Precious Enough For Us
Album review of Nothing Precious Enough For Us by Death Vessel released through Sub Pop. Perhaps the most inappropriately-named outfit in recent memory, Death Vessel release their second album on Sub Pop. Death Vessel is,...
Review posted on 29th October 2008
Howling Bells - Into The Chaos
Single review of Into The Chaos by Howling Bells released through Independiente. The jury is out on 'Into The Chaos'. One half of the jury have declared it a stupendous number, tugging all the right...
Review posted on 29th October 2008
Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Album review for 'Way To Normal' by Ben Folds released through Columbia. Ben Folds. Way To Normal. The joke is, you see. He's already there. He's already normal! At least, I think that's the joke....
Review posted on 29th October 2008
Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Album review of 'Snowflake Midnight' by Mercury Rev released through V2.From its epic opening track, 'Snowflake In A Hot World', Mercury Rev deliver. They deliver grandiose harmonies. They deliver scurrilous, glitchy drum beats. They deliver...
Review posted on 6th October 2008
Jeremy Warmsley - How We Became
Album review of 'How We Became' by Jeremy Warmsley released through Transgressive.Though there are some elegant moments in How We Became and the production is impeccable, the overall tone of the album is witheringly pedestrian....
Review posted on 6th October 2008
Monkey Journey To the West - Self-titled
Album review of Monkey: Journey To the West released through XL Recordings. Initially showcased at last year's Manchester International Festival, this is a collection of songs composed by Damon Albarn to soundtrack Monkey: Journey To...
Review posted on 29th September 2008
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Album review of Skeleton by Abe Vigoda released through Bella Union. Somewhat alarmingly, the very first few chords of 'Dead City / Waste Wilderness', the opening track on Skeleton sound not dissimilar to Vampire Weekend....
Review posted on 29th September 2008
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Hot Chip Ready For The Floor EMI Single Review The force that is Hot Chip grows ever-stronger with their new single, 'Ready For The Floor'. Anyone fearing that their slightly-cutesy low-key electro pop might start...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend Self-Titled XL Records Album Review This lively and spirited debut from Vampire Weekend is a breath of fresh, impassioned air in a sea of identikit, moronic indie boy bands, all thrashing away in...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
MGMT Oracular Spectacular Columbia Records Album Review Oracular Spectacular leaves a lingering scent of times gone by. Notes of glam-era Bowie, a delicate hint of Marc Bolan are bound by lyrics clamouring for free love...
Review posted on 4th February 2008
Cowtown - Pine-cone Express
Cowtown Pine-cone Express (On The Bone / Chinchilla / Golden Lab) Album Review Deliciously catastrophic and shambolic, listening to 'Pine-cone Express' is like walking through a TV theme tune with Urusei Yatsura jamming along and...
Review posted on 27th November 2007
The Royal We - The Royal We
The Royal WeThe Royal WeAlbum Review(Geographic)There must be something in the water up in Glasgow. Perhaps they have some strange repetitive compulsion that makes them fall for any twee indie band that happens to play...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Keyboard Choir - Mizen Head To Gascanane Sound
Keyboard ChoirMizen Head To Gascanane SoundAlbum ReviewBrainlove RecordsA patchwork quilt of fabricated audio, quirky vocal samples and intricate keys, you can ebb along on the waves of these twelve songs. Pushing the envelope of the...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Devendra BanhartSmokey Rolls Down Thunder CanyonAlbum ReviewHaving ignored Banhart thus far - for the simple and rather tenuous reason that he looks like Vincent Gallo and only one man on this planet should look like...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Deerhoof - Matchbook Seeks Maniac
DeerhoofMatchbook Seeks ManiacSingle ReviewAs delightfully delicious as ever, this Deerhoof single sounds like a Pedro Almodovar soundtrack sent through a mangle in Paris and pulled out the other end in Japan. Quite possibly the shortest...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
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