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Peaking Lights - Lucifer
Husband-and-wife duo, Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, have been looking to do to music what Marie and Pierre Curie did to chemistry and physics since their initial band Rahdunes folded in the early 2000s. With...
Review posted on 28th June 2012
The Invisible - Rispah
It's been three years since The Invisible released their Mercury nominated, self-titled debut and in that time they've experienced some heady heights and, unfortunately so, some very personal lows. Nowhere near as pop as the...
Review posted on 26th June 2012
Homeboy Sandman - Chimera
One thing's for sure, signing to Stones Throw has made Homeboy Sandman one of the most productive rappers around today. Prior to signing to the hip-hop juggernaut label, Sandman was somewhat complacent with his recordings...
Review posted on 19th June 2012
Josh Osho - L.I.F.E.
'I usually don't work with a lot of people, but my man Josh is in another lane.' When hip-hop heavyweight Ghostface Killah says this about you before your first album has even come out, then...
Review posted on 19th June 2012
OFF! - OFF!
The term 'angry old man' fits to Keith Morris - the man behind Circle Jerks/Black Flag - like a hand in a glove. The thing is, it is a tag that has lived with him...
Review posted on 19th June 2012
LateNightTales - Music For Pleasure
The latest edition of the Late Night Tales series is effectively the DeLorean that can whisk you back in time to the blue-eyed soul era that birthed some of the most laid-back, summer friendly soundtracks...
Review posted on 6th June 2012
Shabazz Palaces - Brudenell Social Club - 21/5/2012
The problem with just about every concert you go to is that there's always at least one D'head who tries his/her (usually his) hardest to ruin it for the rest of the eager audience. For...
Review posted on 22nd May 2012
The Walkmen - Heaven
Let's face it; 'The Rat' was an undeniably astounding track. The sheer vigour was unrelenting from start to finish and it still gets mentioned today as one of last decade's musical highlights. It wasn't so...
Review posted on 21st May 2012
Beach House - Bloom
Expectations were high well before 2012 had even kicked off for the mass of upcoming ventures from across the board. We had (and still have) high anticipation for superhero ventures with The Dark Knight Rises...
Review posted on 21st May 2012
Blood Red Shoes - The Cockpit, Leeds 12/5/2012
As 9 o'clock draws ever nearer, the crowd push ever closer to the front as the last few songs play over the stereo, a stage with a red backdrop, vintage television and lights scattered across...
Review posted on 16th May 2012
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
It's been four years since Bedlam in Goliath, the album that spawned the Grammy winning 'Wax Simulacra', the bold cry to the world that prog is not dead. Your contemporary music listener of the day...
Review posted on 15th May 2012
Laid Back - Cosyland
Back in the eighties, Danish pop duo, Laid Back, were positively at the forefront of laid back pop with tracks like 'Sunshine Reggae' and 'Maybe I'm Crazy' going number one the world over. 'Sunshine Reggae'...
Review posted on 15th May 2012
Graham Coxon - A&E
According to Damon Albarn, the Olympics' closing mini-festival at Hyde Park will be the last public outing for Blur and this time he means it (maybe). Still, the four-piece hardly went into hiding after their...
Review posted on 15th May 2012
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's A Corporate World
Dale Earnhardt is one of the most recognisable names in NASCAR, winning 76 races throughout his career as a driver. During the 2001 Daytona 500 (the NASCAR equivalent to racing at Silverstone), the famed driving...
Review posted on 4th May 2012
Mystery Jets - Radlands
One look at the front cover of South London's Mystery Jets leaves you thinking "oh God, they've made a country album!" Alas, it's not all Billy Ray Cyrus, so it should hopefully not be leaving...
Review posted on 4th May 2012
Blood Orange - Forget It
From Test Icicles to Lightspeed Champion, there's no denying Devont' Hynes' talent when it comes to making music. He could shred with Test Icicles and he could melt hearts under his Lightspeed Champion moniker, and...
Review posted on 30th April 2012
The Staves - The Motherlode
The Corrs sister they are not, but the sibling threesome that make up The Staves look to take the music world by storm with their own bewitchingly beautiful country/folk sound. The Watford-born sisters look to...
Review posted on 30th April 2012
The Destroyers - Hole In The Universe
The most populous band I can think of is the Polyphonic Spree who had a good few hundred people in the band at any one time. They made choral, symphonic rock-pop to a pretty decent...
Review posted on 4th April 2012
Dexys Midnight Runners - One Day I'm Going To Soar
Twenty-six years is a long time in the music industry; in that time we've seen the rise and fall of grunge, watched in horror as boy-bands took over the world and are currently in the...
Review posted on 22nd March 2012
LateNightTales - Belle and Sebastian vol. 2
When you manage to pip the likes of 5ive and Steps to the much-coveted title of 'Best Newcomer' at the 1999 BRIT Awards you are pretty much set for a successful and lasting career. Now...
Review posted on 22nd March 2012
Boots Electric - Cockpit, Leeds 12/3/2012
Those already familiar with the debut Boots Electric album Honkey Kong probably debate how Jesse Hughes and co. could possibly transport the funky, largely electronic sound from studio to stage. The answer is simple; turn...
Review posted on 15th March 2012
Blood Red Shoes - In Time To Voices
The first time I ever came across Blood Red Shoes was way back in 2007 when they toured alongside Maximo Park and whilst Maximo Park have vanished from my iPod since then, Blood Red Shoes...
Review posted on 13th March 2012
Willis Earl Beal - Acousmatic Sorcery
When an artist appears on the X Factor and fails to make it through to the last few stages, chances are you've had your first and last glimpse at them. For Willis Earl Beal however...
Review posted on 13th March 2012
Hospitality - Hospitality
As far as band names go, Hospitality is one that resonates with a sense of warmth and welcoming. Their sound too greets you warmly, it is distinctively poppy indie occupied with a summery memento. Hailing...
Review posted on 12th March 2012
WZRD - WZRD
It's safe to say that hip-hop and rock music are two genres that always seem to find one another, rock is the yin to the yang that is hip-hop. But with all terrible metaphors to...
Review posted on 7th March 2012
The Magnetic Fields - Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
Stephin Merritt, in his twenty-plus years in music, has been nothing short of prolific. Following on from the synth-less trilogy that was I, Distortion and Realism, this time Merritt and the Magnetic Fields return to...
Review posted on 7th March 2012
Kris Menace - Electric Horizon
What is it about Germany and electronic music? Ever since the seventies with Kraftwerk and the experimentation of various Kraut-rock groups the country has become synonymous with producing electronic albums. Since then the country has...
Review posted on 7th March 2012
Mmoths - Mmoths
Take a look around Mmoth's Soundcloud page and you will find a few remixes from last year and a preview of things to come for 2012, a relatively desolate page for a man with such...
Review posted on 27th February 2012
Decibels - The Lesser
Originally focused on remixing tracks, Decibels have taken the leap into being a fully-fledged recording group with the release of the single The Lesser. The bleeps and sequences they have mixed together are already creating...
Review posted on 27th February 2012
Caveman - CoCo Beware
It seems that over the past decade or so, the go to muse for indie groups is Brian Wilson. Whether it is his harmonies; summery compositions or immaculate production techniques, Wilson and the Beach Boys...
Review posted on 27th February 2012
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