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Cats And Cats And Cats - If I'd Had An Atlas
This band are no mere copycats (and cats and cats). »
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost Appendices
Heavy Ghost Appendicesoffers the kind of haunting that every house should welcome. »
Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
With its ambiguous musical beginnings, this album places itself in the thick of the vegetation, but with clever instrumentation, the sounds spark images of stunning green scenes – some safe, some scary, some seemingly from another world. »
Turner Cody - Gangbusters!
Listen to Gangbusters! and you won’t regret the lost half hour. This is, after all, a solid album of melancholy, slightly folky, slightly twee pop songs.»
The Shills - Sweet Inertia
The expectation was never for The Shills to live up to their own hype.»
Pin Me Down - Pin Me Down
There is nothing quirky, nothing challenging, nothing innovative and nothing particularly compelling about Pin Me Down. »
Peggy sue - Fossils and Other Phantoms
Peggy Sue are poignant and articulate as they wallow in the turmoil of lost love. »
Dark Dark Dark - Bright Bright Bright
It’s best to think of Dark Dark Dark as what the Arcade Fire’s Régine would sound like if she started a band with Regina Spektor.»
Various - Almost Alice
As a creative artefact its merits are limited, and does little, if anything, to contribute to Tim Burton’s creative vision. »
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
If anything, this record should be remembered as a tribute to the way individuals can pull through even the greatest heartache. »
Dag for Dag - Boo
Anyone who spends a little bit of time with Boo will find themselves going back for more, time after time after time, trying to work out what it’s all about. »
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou - Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou
Like many (most, probably) folk acts then, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou are at their most appealing when they shrug off all the clichés of a genre that, through its age, is full of them. »
Various - Follow the Outline
There’s just enough energy captured throughout for the label to establish itself as one to keep an eye on in 2010. »
Sparrow and the Workshop - Into the Wild
It might be a bit much to suggest that Sparrow And The Workshop might do for folk what The Strokes did for rock ‘n’ roll at the start of the decade. Still, few other folk (or anti-folk) contemporaries have managed to rejuvenate the world’s oldest genre, by paying homage to their influences, yet without losing any of their own imagination. »
Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
Dead Confederate are good at ballsy, sinister, twisted rock‘n’roll, and this they deliver by the bowlful. Unfortunately they show their weakness when they step beyond this brief.»
The Hidden Cameras - Origin: Orphan
Origin: Orphan is an awkward balance of personal exploration which they refuse to commit to, and a relentless chirpiness which is becoming increasingly unnatural. »
Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress
An album that is weirdly accessible, with a strange universality at its core. »
Beaten Awake - Thunder$troke
It’s difficult to avoid cringing when a record opens with a wail of “Can you dig it?!” that would cause Sebastian Bach to no»
Shaky Hands - Let It Die
Let It Die appears to be a microcosm of a band struggling to break free from the shackles of convention, passed down to them from their prevailing influences. »
Weezer - Raditude
Raditude is in no way unique in Weezer’s recent career. When it’s good, it’s a surprise; when it’s bad, it’s incomprehensibly atrocious. But for the most part, it is dull, empty and devoid of sentiment, and that is its greatest crime. »
Russian Circles - Geneva
Like many of the tracks contained therein, Geneva ends up far from where it began. But this is not a record defined by where it starts and where it finishes – it’s what there is to take in on the way that counts. »
The Witch And The Robot - On Safari
The Witch And The Robot is a weird name for a band. On Safari is a weird name for an album. Let’s face it; calling a song ‘You»
HORSE the band - Desperate Living
There is no lack of technical imagination on Desperate Living, with an exciting mesh of timbres and complex structures to keep you fixated. This gives HORSE enough distinction to stand out in their field – something not easily achieved for a band who show such furious antipathy for the conventions of ‘good’ music. »
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed
“We can never sell out because we never bought in” yells Frank Turner on his latest album's opening track. There is sincerity »
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