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Pop Levi - The Return to Form Black Magick Party
Pop LeviThe Return to Form Black Magick PartyAlbum ReviewWith a sugar rush like cake icing, Pop Levi have made an Album that could only otherwise have been made by putting Marc Bolan, Sweet, Led Zeppelin,...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
30 Seconds to MarsA Beautiful LieAlbum ReviewActors usually make pretty shocking musicians, but Jared Leto seems set to be the exception that tests that rule. With a voice that sounds almost exactly like Bono doing...
Review posted on 12th March 2007
Nat Baldwin - Enter The Winter
Nat Baldwin Enter The Winter Album Review The world seems ready for different sounds, with artists like Joanna Newsom gaining an audience that would probably have been denied her for the past 40 years. Nat...
Review posted on 26th February 2007
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings - Let's Frolic
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings Let's Frolic Album Review Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are considered something of a Canadian supergroup, but the 'super' is mostly because they combine the talents of three decent singer-songwriters...
Review posted on 26th February 2007
Keller Williams - Dream
Keller Williams Dream Album Review Although he is a regular on the American 'jam band' circuit, you may not have heard of Keller Williams, unless you're a connoisseur of remarkable guitarists. A fantastic, percussive, slippery,...
Review posted on 26th February 2007
Dexateens - Hardwire Healing
DexateensHardwire HealingAlbum ReviewThe Dexateens' Red Dust Rising had a lot about it, but was distinctly second-class Drive By Truckers, with its Southern rocked-out sound thrown at some OK songs. Hardwire Healing takes a significant step...
Review posted on 19th February 2007
Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Apples in StereoNew Magnetic WonderAlbum ReviewApples in Stereo have always had a cult belief that they would go onto great things. So, after a five year absence, it is easy to get the impression that...
Review posted on 19th February 2007
Will Stratton - What The Night Said
Will StrattonWhat The Night SaidAlbum ReviewGorgeous. Simply gorgeous. A debut album from a singer-songwriter from New Jersey, What The Night Said is like a wonderful amalgam of Iron & Wine's lushly plucked guitar and melody,...
Review posted on 19th February 2007
Gob Iron - Death Songs For The Living
Gob IronDeath Songs For The LivingAlbum ReviewGob Iron (slang for harmonica in British folk circles) is a band formed by Uncle Tupelo's Jay Farrar and Varnaline's Anders Parker. The 10 songs here were actually recorded...
Review posted on 12th February 2007
Rickie Lee Jones - The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard
Rickie Lee JonesThe Sermon on Exposition BoulevardAlbum ReviewEven being extremely lenient, it would be hard to claim that Rickie Lee Jones has done much that's essential since Flying Cowboys in 1989 (and possibly even her...
Review posted on 12th February 2007
America - Here and Now
AmericaHere and NowAlbum ReviewDon't, for one minute, get wrapped up in the emotion of a new album by the band who made Horse With No Name and Ventura Highway 30 years ago. Solely redeemed by...
Review posted on 12th February 2007
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The ShinsWincing The Night AwayAlbum ReviewOh, the burden of expectation. Indie darlings The Shins follow up (in their own sweet time, they made sure everyone knows...) Oh Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow with a...
Review posted on 5th February 2007
Benjy Ferree - Leaving The Nest
Benjy FerreeLeaving The NestAlbum ReviewNow this is great. A man from Washington, DC, who, in one disc, takes on Wolfmother, Jeff Buckley, T Rex, The Kinks and Neutral Milk Hotel. Bouncy and bouncing from one...
Review posted on 5th February 2007
Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs
Youth GroupCasino Twilight DogsAlbum ReviewYouth Group exploded onto the scene in 2005 with Skeleton Jar, and confirmed what Australia had known for a while now - that when it comes to melodic indie rock, there...
Review posted on 5th February 2007
The Fray - How To Save A Life
The Fray How To Save A Life Album Review A band that has built on buzz and iTunes downloads, The Fray are a Denver 4 piece whose single How To Save A Life was streamed...
Review posted on 29th January 2007
Steve Adey - All Things Real
Steve Adey All Things Real Album Review The spaces between the notes can be over-emphasised in the name of earnest art, or they can add real echo space for contemplation. All Things Real, the debut...
Review posted on 29th January 2007
Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower
Maria Taylor Lynn Teeter Flower Album Review Maria Taylor left the band Azure Ray to release 2005's 11:11, where her sweet, grown-up voice added a lovely lilt to what was a promising set of songs....
Review posted on 29th January 2007
Franky Lee - Cutting Edge
Franky LeeCutting EdgeAlbum ReviewWhat started as a side-project for Millencolin's guitarist Mathias Färm, with ex-Peepshow musicians, to build on a decade's worth of song ideas, turned into something else entirely, once recorded. For a band...
Review posted on 22nd January 2007
Krista Detor - Mudshow
Krista DetorMudshowAlbum Review Female singer-songwriters have such a hard time breaking out of a pigeon-hole. Although Krista Detor writes and performs on piano, her songs are wonderfully produced by David Weber, and unconstrained by the...
Review posted on 22nd January 2007
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
Love Is AllNine Times That Same SongAlbum ReviewRemember the spirit of Lene Lovich, Altered Images, and Nina Hagen, where bouncy, screamy women careened around in front of a Cure-like indie rock band, uttering unintelligible lyrics...
Review posted on 22nd January 2007
Julie Feeney - 13 Songs
Julie Feeney13 SongsAlbum Review Even in an age of Do-It-Yourself singer songwriters that no longer make us gasp in awe, Julie Feeney takes the biscuit; she not only wrote the music for this album, but...
Review posted on 17th January 2007
Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
Jerry Lee Lewis (and guests) Last Man Standing Album Review Johnny Cash's last few albums showed how much life there is in the ageing-star album. For those who didn't even realise Jerry Lee Lewis was...
Review posted on 15th January 2007
Do It Again: A Tribute To The Beach Boys
Various Artists Do It Again: A Tribute To The Beach Boys Album Review Tributes can be played straight, or, as here, artists can offer up their own take on something that inspired them. Whether that...
Review posted on 15th January 2007
The Smithereens - Meet The Smithereens: Beatles Tribute Album
The Smithereens Meet The Smithereens: Beatles Tribute Album Album Review The Smithereens were one of the 80s most essential bands. Unfortunately for them, it has been some time since they counted as even 'interesting', never...
Review posted on 15th January 2007
Johnny Boy - Johnny Boy
Johnny BoyJohnny BoyAlbum ReviewJohnny Boy are Davo, on guitars, loops and vocals, and Lolly (ditto), and this is their debut album, two years after their debut single You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes...
Review posted on 8th January 2007
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
PavementWowee ZoweeAlbum ReviewWowee Zowee sounds like a band trying hard to not do what was expected. A couple of years before Radiohead tried the same, Pavement followed up their successful album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain...
Review posted on 8th January 2007
The Ruby Suns - The Ruby Suns
The Ruby Suns The Ruby Suns Album Review If The Ruby Suns set themselves up as a Beach Boys tribute band (Karekare Beach Boys, possibly), and ran through Pet Sounds and Best of The Beach...
Review posted on 2nd January 2007
Loney - Sologne
Loney, Dear Sologne Album Review Loney, Dear is Sweden's answer to King Creosote: a gorgeously spun, fragile-sounding album of beautiful songs, gently told. Emil Svanängen is the band - he plays every instrument, bar a...
Review posted on 2nd January 2007
The Bloody Hollies - Who To Trust, Who To Kill, Who To Love
The Bloody Hollies Who To Trust, Who To Kill, Who To Love Album Review Rather than garage-rock, this disc almost defines sweaty-cavern-rock, with every brick dripping with condensation and reverberating to the attack of a...
Review posted on 2nd January 2007
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Swan Lake Beast Moans Album Review Indie 'supergroups' are usually something of a misnomer, as they tend to comprise members of bands nobody has ever heard of to make another project no-one else will ever...
Review posted on 2nd January 2007
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