Release Reviews
My Vitriol - Always : Your Way
"It's a rip-off!", I hear you cry. "A blatant marketing exercise for the new album!" MV's forthcoming February single, "Always Your Way", is their second re-release in a row, following November's "Pieces". Tut. They should be ashamed of themselves - making innocent young indie kids and rock fans fork out for a song the»
King Adora - Suffocate
King Adora are a band who are renowned for their sexier-than-thou image. (Despite their also-renowned prowess in the field of being utter mingers.) While this is fun and interesting for about 3 minutes, the novelty starts to wear thin after a while. So it's nice to see that with Suffocate, the Birmingham boys have more»
Nirvana - In Utero
People often wonder when Nirvana's apparent reign at the top of the rock music world will end. Indeed, many bands have been tipped as better than Nirvana but with such a large fan base as loyal as Nirvana it is difficult to argue this point. Many fans are blinkered to the point of obsession. I am a huge Nirvana fan.»
Godhead - 2000 years Of Human Error
If you’ve heard of Godhead already, and not many people in the UK have, then you’re one step ahead of most people. Apart from Marilyn Manson, because he likes ’em. And by the way, you can put down the soundtrack to Blair Witch 2 down now, because that’s were you heard them and you’re blagging it, just like a million ot»
Union Kid - Last of the Lo-Fi
Union Kid are a new band. They have been 'hotly-tipped' for some time now and listening to this, it's no wonder why. The fuzzy guitars and dynamics which can be best described as dynamic make for a wonderful pop song. When they are angry the music is angry. The anger is relayed as power. Power does not mean down-tu»
In/Humanity - The Great American Teenage Suicide Rebellion 92-98
This is the near discography of South Carolina’s In/Humanity and contains 42 noisy, crashing blasts of grindcore goodness, although guitarist Chris Bickel reckons there’re only 3 or 4 decent ones. “We were an absolutely horrible band but that never stopped us from trying our damnedest to enlighten the community with ou»
Lostprophets - thefakesoundofprogress
Wow. I didn't expect that at all. All that time Wales produced indie bands like Manics, Catatonia and SFA and now they unleash the mighty LOST PROPHETS on us!? Opening 'song' "Shinobivsdragonninja" is a complete killer. All crushing guitars, furious quirky drumbeats and emotive vocals. And Lost Prophets»
Naomi Klein - No logo
Politics. In some form or other, it's something that burns inside many of those who claim a genuinely alternative mindset. But it's also something that's crushed easily by sheer weight of cynicism - frustration at the arcane complexities, flawed ideologies, endless arguments and lack of real progress tha»
Kids Near Water - Extendedplayerone
When Kids Near Water’s demo was reviewed in Fracture a while back Monk Dave described it as “quite simply the best demo I have ever received” Not a bad catch then for Firefly’s first release. Opening with such a powerful slice of emo-core riffage it’s hard to believe that they haven’t been plugging the country»
Deftones - Adrenaline
I am sooo lucky when it comes to music. I have good friends who introduce me to bands quite early on in their career. I been listening to Bloodhound Gang for 5 years or so, Korn for about 6 years, Bush for about 5 years and so on...... Another band is the Deftones. The band who had appeared in Crow 2 as a liv»
Garrison Starr - Somethin' To Hold You Over EP
The life of a musician, for all it's potential highs, can be quite hard sometimes. Imagine the euphoria of being signed to a major with a radio friendly hit and a support slot with a band as excellent as The Sundays only to have your label snapped up and dissected. You're out on your ear. Time to go back to that»
Hedrock Valley Beats - Coming Thru [My Stereo]
The front cover for this single features two mean looking, moustachioed Noo York cops on a graffiti strewn 1970s subway train. They look like they are related to Village People’s cop and you can pretty much guess what the main track, Coming Thru [My Stereo] will sound like. I bet it will have that retro »
Kraftwerk - Expo 2000 Remixes
In 1999, Kraftwerk released their first new song in 13 years. A year later comes along the remixes EP of the same track. Given the pedigree of Kraftwerks legendary status, the original Kraftwerk versions proved at the same time retro and futuristic, so the remixes were sent out a select few: Orbital, Underground Res»
Nine Inch Nails - Things Falling Apart
Another year, another Nine Inch Nails remix album. Trent Reznor must be tapping into that vein of alienation and guilt quite well by now, and after the success of “Broken” (1992) came the remix album “Fixed” (some six weeks later, and bloody excellent): then in 1994 came “The downward spiral” followed by “Further down»
Damn Dirty Apes - LFL/E/TNW
Well, its starts promising, with the somewhat patronisingly titled “jungle sounds” intro which adds a sonic palette of samples and sound that makes it stand out more than a usual demo, looking like its got some thought in it. And then the riffage begins. Big heavy riffage, led and underpinned in the main by a huuuge fu»
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
An amazing feat was achieved, one I would never expect to see in my life time.... finally, a GOOD Canadian band. Forget your whiney Celine Dion's, the 'Vancouver Groover' Bryan Adams, those bitter sweet tones of Alanis Morissette and the boring MOR rock of Moist, we finally had something to revel in... and i»
Magic Joe - ‘OneEightSixNineNine’
Essex’s finest release this the ‘OneEightSixNineNine’ Demo E.P. Off the back of being officially stated Essex’s best unsigned band, and following a run of glorious gigs, Magic Joe release this demo E.P. presenting us all with not only something to think about, but something to smile about as well. Opening»
Skyride - Superman parts I & II
Many have hotly tipped Skyride for great things in 2001. This, their 2 track demo CD offers a small sample of what they as a band, have to offer. The first number could almost be described as two, entitled Superman Pt I and II, it’s a longen to say the least! Quite atmospheric in its set-up, with ethereal guitar»
Megadeth - Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years
The best of Megadeth, apparently, but there are some bizarre choices. Three tracks from Cryptic Writings (Trust, Almost Honest, and Use The Man) seems like an odd idea, although I can't really fault any of them. A track from Risk is an even odder idea, but if there really had to be one, it should have been the delightf»
The Wildhearts - Endless Nameless
In 1997, having spent the best part of a decade paving the way for the likes of 3 Colours Red and Feeder, and continually coming within pissing distance of a top 10 hit, the Wildhearts dragged themselves out of the perpetual record label problems which had almost killed them on several occasions and negotiated the deal»
Boards of Canada - In a beautiful place out in the country EP
Fractured, fucked, funky, fatalistic, formidable and flourishing electronica from two blokes hailing from Scotland. Following up their unanimously acclaimed debut album “Music has the right to children”. They take the Aphex Twin aesthetic of head-fucking ambience to a much more subtle environment. Mixing enticing, hypn»
Monster Magnet - God Says No
Following up the cross-over success of the “Powertrip” album, Dave Wyndorf and his mixed up stoner/metal/riffage posse have produced one of the more eclectic but commendable metal albums of 2000. Far from a straight-ahead metal album, this seems to cover everything from the metal-dancefloor friendly riffage and instant»
Dido - No Angel
Many people will know of Dido because hers is the haunting vocal that is featured in 'Stan' by Eminem. In fact… well he sampled her song 'Thank you'… and the rest is History.
Dido is the sister of Rollo Armstrong, the dance producer and one of the main creative forces in Faithless. She's classically trained»
Delerium - Poems
For those of you who first came across Delirium earlier this summer with their Ibiza-like anthem “Silence”, and then shuddered in disgust, you’ll probably be amazed to know that they’ve been making albums for night on 15 years now. From early electronica outings like “Faces,Forms and Illusions” to the Enigma-esque terr»
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