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Peter Gabriel - New Blood
Not one to let convention get in his way Peter Gabriel returns with his ninth solo offering, a covers album featuring only his own songs. On New Blood, Gabriel reinvents a host of earlier recordings...
Review posted on 23rd February 2012
Nat Baldwin - People Changes
The fifth in a string of solo albums over the past few years, the bassist of Dirty Projectors and contributor on such albums as Vampire Weekend's Contra and Department of Eagle's In Ear Park, Nat...
Review posted on 23rd February 2012
Chairlift - Something
As made apparent by the choice of cover art, Chairlift are now a double act consisting of Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly, with former member Aaron Pfenning departing before the duo entered the studio. For...
Review posted on 23rd February 2012
Karl Phillips and the Midnight Ramblers - Dangerous
Tinie Tempah, Wretch 32 and Chipmunk are three prime examples of the inexcusable condition mainstream rap music is currently experiencing. Whilst legends of the game such as Jehst and Dizzee Rascal still churn out decent...
Review posted on 22nd February 2012
Benjamin Shaw - There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabaret
What makes a good singer/songwriter? If you take into consideration any singer/songwriters currently in the charts then it's an ability to almost hold a tune and a reasonably attractive look, if you float in indie...
Review posted on 22nd February 2012
Air - Le Voyage Dans Le Lune
As far as cinematic visionaries go, Georges M'liSs is usually ranked among the top of the heap. Widely consider the first science-fiction film, M'liSs a was true legend in his field, regardless of how dubious...
Review posted on 22nd February 2012
Holiday Shores - New Masses For Squaw Peak
As our hopes of an early spring are dashed by the news of impending snowstorms and similarly appalling weather conditions on the horizon, remember that there's always the cordial prospect of a summery soundtrack to...
Review posted on 6th February 2012
Gonjasufi - Mu.Zz.Le
Neglecting the help of long-time collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer in favour of recording and mixing alone in his home studio, dub revivalist Gonjasufi's mini LP Mu.Zz.Le continues the artist's search for a...
Review posted on 6th February 2012
Phantom Limb - The Pines
Phantom Limb are a Bristolian band who make music from a bygone age, when you could freely mix blues, country and gospel without fear of being pigeon-holed. Led by Yolanda Quartey, a singer who has...
Review posted on 30th January 2012
Drake - Take Care
As a label renowned for housing the most obnoxious and self involved of the current crop of commercial rappers, think Lil Wayne and Rick Ross, it can be hard to understand how Young Money, Cash...
Review posted on 30th January 2012
Emmy The Great - Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler, Presents...This Is Christmas
News of a collaboration between Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler began to emerge in the summer, which, as we all know, is way too early to even mention Christmas (unless you work in retail)....
Review posted on 21st December 2011
Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
We've been waiting four years to hear Justice's sophomore album, with fans of the band, myself included, close to edge of our seats in anticipation for what future sounds the Parisian duo would unleash. Interviews...
Review posted on 14th December 2011
The 2 Bears - Be Strong
Of all the members of Hot Chip, Joe Goddard has easily been the busiest in terms of his musical ventures for the past year or so. Whether working with Ipswich rap up-start Dels, producing his...
Review posted on 14th December 2011
Eat More Cake - Climb the Ladder, Live the Dream
Andrew Briggs and Matt Pearn, along with fellow band-mates Owen Charles and Alex Lane, make up Eat More Cake. Delivering a mix of down-tempo electronica, 90's alternative pop-rock and a strangely at home blend of...
Review posted on 21st November 2011
Juffage - Semicircle
Juffage makes music by himself, what kind of music however is much more difficult to say. Coming from Leeds (via Chicago) he has done the rounds musically for the past few years, even taking his...
Review posted on 8th November 2011
Real Estate - Days
Outside it may be a bleak November day, probably raining too, but inside New Jersey natives Real Estate's sophomore album Days, it is summer all the time. After the success of their acclaimed 2009 self-titled...
Review posted on 7th November 2011
The Field - Looping State of Mind
Axel Willner, or The Field, as he's known in musical circles, came to light with 2007's minimalist and ambient techno offering From Here We Go Sublime, an album that was as much a shoegazer and...
Review posted on 10th October 2011
Tony Bennett - Duets II
Sixty years after his first number one single and at the ripe old age of 85 (!) Tony Bennett returns to the music scene with his second set of duets. The man with as many...
Review posted on 4th October 2011
The Twelves - Kitsune Tabloid Mix
Kitsune, in Japanese, mean fox, an animal that is common in Japanese folklore. But this isn't an article on foxes, or folklore, or anything like that really. Instead, this is about the other Kitsuné; the...
Review posted on 29th September 2011
Flash Fiktion - Flash Fiktion
Switches were an archetypal indie-pop band, founded by a trio of friends, (later a four-piece) who met at university. Finding a limited amount of success (the band did have a song in the very average...
Review posted on 5th September 2011
SebastiAn - Total
Since emerging onto the music scene in 2005, Serbian-French producer and DJ Sebastian Akchoté, or SebastiAn as he is better known, has firmly cemented his place among the elite forces of house and electro. His...
Review posted on 5th September 2011
The Whip - Wired Together
Norman Cook founded Southern Fried Records seventeen years ago. The largely electronic-based output from the label has seen some of the most forward thinking electro of the past few years, including Cook himself, electro-funk pioneer...
Review posted on 5th September 2011
Wretch 32 - Black and White
Tottenham-born rapper Wretch 32 may have only just emerged on most people radar, yet the man has been surfing the music scene for the past five years, rapping with the likes of Ghetts, Devlin and...
Review posted on 5th September 2011
PS I Love You - Meet Me At The Muster Station
Kingston, Ontario has spawned its fair share of musical talent, some of them known mainly in Canada, such as The Tragically Hip and Canadian Idols' Ryan Malcolm, and some have risen to international acclaim, Bryan...
Review posted on 8th August 2011
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
The four-piece Belfast based instrumentalists are back with their second release, fresh from an unprecedented number of tour dates around the globe, the 'gang' of four return to the studio looking to emulate their much...
Review posted on 2nd August 2011
Chilly Gonzales - The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
Gonzales or Chilly Gonzales, the doppelganger he has taken up on and off since his 2000 release The Entertainist, has long been a contributing member of the Canadian music scene, whether as a virtuoso pianist...
Review posted on 26th July 2011
The Walkmen - You and Me
Album review of 'You and Me' by The Walkmen released through Gigantic - The Walkmen's last album 'A Hundred Miles Off' didn't really strike much of an accord with many of their fans, for most,...
Review posted on 14th August 2008
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