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NickSouthall has written the following articles:
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Intimacy gets pretty close to achieving Bloc Party's ultimate goal of aligning their different directional desires, and while imperfect the band's third is also hugely invigorating»
Polar Bear - Polar Bear
For those that don’t know, Polar Bear are a jazz band, and in 2005 were the token jazz nomination for the Mercury Music Prize. »
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
NER*D's problem is that crunchy, eclectic, hip-hop and rock melding post-millennial pop just doesn’t sound like the future anymore»
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay's fourth album might be their best, but it's still far from being the epochal classic that Chris Martin seems so desperate to create»
Portishead - Third
Can it really take 11 years to make a record? Of course not; if anyone thinks even for a single moment that all Portishead have been doing since 1997 is writing this LP then their grasp on reality is tenuous at best»
The Dø - A Mouthful
A Mouthful is a resolutely pop album, in the old-fashioned sense; eclectic, characterful, audacious, addictive and irresistibly sexy. You've probably not heard anything like The Dø in a long time»
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The achievement of The Seldom Seen Kid is that Elbow manage to be both incredibly consistent and perpetually improving. It’s an easy phrase to utter, but they are one of the finest bands in the world right now»
Patrick Wolf at Exeter Phoenix, Thu 22 Nov
Following his announcement earlier in the year that he’d never play live again, and his occasional prima donna tendencies, you never know quite what to expect from Patrick Wolf»
Statehood - Lies and Rhetoric
For the most part ex-D' Plan outfit Statehood's Lies And Rhetoric is pretty straightforward DC post-hardcore with lashing guitars, but it still raises a mighty riot»
Champion Sound #13: Part 1 – Ten Yeezus Pieces
Parklife Weekender 2013 – The Drowned in Sound Review
Drowned In Sheffield #14
DiS Does Singles 17.06.13: Dornik, Washed Out, AlunaGeorge
All Hail the Culturati... Fighting Over Radiohead's Hail to the Thief
Cutting Through the Noise: What it's really like representing new artists at events like The Great Escape
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