Release Reviews
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
A blazingly enjoyable record, the most purely fun album the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have made since Fever to Tell.»
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Save Rock and Roll isn't life or game changing but it's probably the album Fall Out Boy needed to make.»
Various - Arts & Crafts 2003-2013
Whereas some would hesitate before signing over their band to a commune of high school pals like Arts & Crafts, the couple of dozen friends making up the Broken Social Scene circle gave the pledge without second thought.»
Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost
In an attempt to not be typecast as just a creaky voiced troubadour, Sam Beam has produced such a musically and lyrically 'busy' record that it results in near sensory overload at times. »
The Thermals - Desperate Ground
You can only write so many hi-tempo, powerchord driven punk-pop songs before they all start blending into one in your consciousness.»
Dear Reader - Rivonia
There’s some evolution here from Dear Reader’s previous work but it remains unapologetically twee.»
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
There is something strangely life affirming about The Haxan Cloak.»
Nails - Abandon all Life
With Nails there is no compromise if you don’t like it then you can go fuck yourself.»
Letherette - Letherette
Though Parisian goliaths Daft Punk return this summer, it seems unlikely that this Wolverhampton duo will be lost in their shadows.»
Major Lazer - Free the Universe
Another notch on macho rave’s bedpost.»
Edwyn Collins - Understated
A joyous, emboldened return to form and one that reminds us of what a treasure Edwyn Collins is.»
Bored Nothing - Bored Nothing
Ultimately, it’s all just too lazy. »
Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
Wakin' on a Pretty Daze is one of those rare examples of an artist’s uninhibited self-indulgence resulting in an LP which plays firmly to their strengths.»
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - You Have Already Gone to the Other World
If Gogol Bordello are the Goldie Lookin’ Chain of Eastern European folk, A Hawk and a Hacksaw are its Public Enemy, and You Have Already Gone To the Other Wold is their most legitimate love-letter to the region’s music yet.»
The Low Sea - Remote Viewing
The Low Sea probably do care about music - but you couldn't really tell that from Remote Viewing.»
Paramore - Paramore
A masterful rock-vs-rock voyage through 30 years of influences, rather than something you can put a pithy sound-bite to. »
Tomorrow's World - Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's World make emotional, Radio 2-ready electronic pop with enough letting go of the handrail to remind you they’re onto something original.»
Electronic - Electronic (special edition)
Vague, passable dance tracks that you’re only aware are on in the background because of the gnawing sensation that daylight saving went mental and set the clocks back 20 years.»
Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
Still bitter. Still brilliant. Still here.»
Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - White People and the Damage Done
Despite Jello Biafra’s best intentions, White People And The Damage Done seems to settle for righteous belligerence while falling some way short of being a worth soundtrack for the anti-globalisation movement.»
Night Moves - Coloured Emotions
When the song and the band is focussed, Night Moves are capable of great things.»
James Blake - Overgrown
Overgrown is an album that seems more at home in the shadows, pared back and delicate, the shiver of a candle flame more than the pulse of a speaker. »
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Depeche Mode’s biggest crime is that they're just a bit boring.»
The Leisure Society - Alone Aboard the Ark
The Leisure Society have certainly woven a kind of magic here, but with all their era-hopping it falls a little short of the climaxes of their live performances.»
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