Album Review: Meghan Trainor – ‘Title’
Let’s get this out of the way, regardless of the popularity generated by her debut single ‘All About That Bass’ and even though I’ll admit that it was a catchy…
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EP: Emmy The Great – S
Out yesterday was the new EP from singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great. Moving on from her two albums to date, First Love and Virtue which showed her to…
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Album Review: The Charlatans – Modern Nature
The Charlatans are an ageing Indie Holy Cow, the kind of band whose back catalogue xfm love to (very) selectively mine when they’re not heavily rotating the execrable Kasabian and the fading…
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Reissues: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Marc Bolan’s reputation as one of the 20th Century’s greatest pop stars is forever tied to the material he released as the frontman of T.Rex, one of the finest glam…
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Album Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong
“Newspaper Spoons” opens like a distant canon firing into the abyss. An overblown kick drum beats like a death knell before Matt Flegel sings “Writhing violence essentially without distortion, Wired silent,…
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Not Forgotten – The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
Just from the pencil-crayon artwork of the CD cover, you sort of know that Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? is going to be a chaotically shambolic album, with lots…
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Not Forgotten – Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Arcade Fire’s debut Funeral was the sound of a band coming out of nowhere to claim their place as the next big thing in a manner no one had quite experienced…
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Album Review: Sumner – Sumner
Two years ago, there or there abouts Kristina Sarkisova arrived in London, via Moscow and Valencia with one suitcase and a guitar. Her intention, beyond seeing out the little money…
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News: Desperate Journalist launch debut LP.
Maybe it’s the 12 string Rickenbacker; maybe it’s the soaring heartfelt vocals, the slick drumming, or the subtle basslines. Whatever it is Desperate Journalist have it all, the beauty, the…
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Not Forgotten – Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
The rules for being a successful prog rock act were seemingly set in stone. You had to be a band, predominantly male, you were not allowed to have hit singles…
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