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Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
The first half of this album appears to be a stylistic summary of Nine Inch Nails' work from the early '90s to the present day»
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
There’s a bit of a scrap going on here, between the inner metalhead and the beret-bonced critic. With 60 years of musical cuisine to mine for ideas, Bullet For My Valentine have made fish & chips. A straight down the line heavy metal record»
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails have made a great big, f*cked-up, dirty dance record; it’s the sort of thing The Sneaker Pimps might have made if they'd had children with Slipknot...»
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
'North American Scum' comes on like a 21st Century impressionist painting of early Talking Heads, sharpened, hardened and reshaped out of modern electro. It's a great song, but what is he talking about...»
Nine Inch Nails - Live: Beside You In Time (DVD)
One of Trent Reznor's undoubted influences, Prince, used to say that when he changed his band line-up the set would have to change, sometimes quite radically, because the new band would have different strengths and weaknesses to the old. Consequently, some of the greatest hits or fan favourites would disappear and be replaced by new tracks...»
Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half-Hour
Enter Shikari have developed an enviable following all off their own back, but unless selling out The Astoria is to be the pinnacle of their career, they need to discover the wild world of writing killer hooks...»
The Used - Berth
On paper it seems like you've got a good deal with Berth, but with only two studio albums out there's not that much meat on The Used's bones as yet...»
Prince - 3121
Living Legend types are supposed to gracefully slip out of the habit of making interesting records, live off their past royalties, occasionally doing massive lucrative tours, and hanging out with other uber-famous types. Yet, just when you thought he was forever lost in a mire of soft gospel/soul/funk obscurity, Prince has at last given us an album that mostly leaves the MOR doldrums behind and rediscovers the snappy pop and pin sharp minimalism that made his name...»
Millionaire at London Camden Barfly, Mon 12 Sep
Tim Vanhamel's uber heavy stoner funk punk band chew up the Barfly and leave it cheering for more...»
65daysofstatic, yourcodenameis:milo, Twin Zero, thebigsleep at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Sun 05 Jun
Rock Sound's 6 In The City takes us far away from four on the floor in Camden, giving us a chance to research the researchers of rock, back to back ...»
Bittersweet - Lying, Drinking and Losing
A debut album that sounds like recent Manics without the politics...»
System Of A Down - Mezmerize
Another bombful of jello biafran smart raging chaos from a band who should certainly not sink along with the various Nu-metal titanics.»
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
One of the alternative records of the decade finally reviewed...»
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - A Very Long Engagement
If you crossed the last five minutes of the last episode of 'Blackadder Goes Forth' with 'The Deer Hunter' and dropped a bewildered 'Amelie' into the middle of it all....»
Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas?
If the idea is to sell as many records as possible, then why produce the most awful record in recent memory? We are presented with the dilemma of buying a piece of genuine bona fide rubbish, or doing nothing to help people living in conditions that are for any sane person an abomination... but is there another way?»
Sam Raimi - Spider-Man 2
Geeks Become Heroes... One of those rare commodities - an exceptional summer blockbuster.»
Saïan Supa Crew - X-Raisons
One very good reason why we should all be taught French in school from the age of 8. Ten reasons that prove a whole lot more fulfilling than a hundred.»
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
We all bowed down before the Outkast album when in actual fact the only track that's going stick in the mind is 'Hey Ya'.... and yet here is an awesome happy hip hop album that, in the timeless words of Sum 41, is All Killer, No Filler...»
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Talk Talk don’t really seem to feature in that much musical conversations these days, an almost forgotten 80s rock band, perhaps lumped in many minds along with dinosaurs like Simple Minds, Duran Duran etc.It would be good if history remembered them not just for the hit pop-epics, but also for the much lesser known experimental work which came afterwards, of which 1988s ’Spirit of Eden’ is perhaps the best example.»
Prince - Musicology
The homogenous soup of money-fixation that goes by the name of ‘urban’ music seems a long way from its 4-real roots in funk, soul and rap, and whatever sense or nonsense the Prince has previously given us, you always knew the guy had his feet firmly buried in those roots.'Musicology', Prince’s return to his own ‘old skool’ could be termed a comeback album...»
Arrested Development: Daisies in The Middle Of Winter
Daisy-Era hip hop legends Arrested Development and Spooks are to co-headline a UK and European tour, along with Portland's Lifesavas.»
Death Of An MC
Today is the day Philadelphia hip hop act Spooks release their new album 'Faster Than You Know', but what should have been a happy day for them was tainted with the news that their former fifth member, MC Water Water, died yeste»
Spooks - Faster Than You Know
It's nice, after the frequently meaningless clever wordplay of certain well known caucasian rappers, to have a record where you want to study every detail of the words, where there is almost too much information to take in without a lot of repeated listens. I don't understand why more records aren't like this, w»
Martin Grech, Cherryfalls at London Camden Barfly, Wed 03 Sep
Dear Cherryfalls, Whatever in god's name makes you think that it's even remotely interesting to be yet another trainee Thom/child of Coldplay?? What is this dour faced bollocks that I see and hear far too often these days? How can bands so thoroughly lacking in ambition »
Jane's Addiction - Strays
At last, an album that you can't pin down... it's not like a cross between The Stones and The Birds, it's not like early Radiohead, it's not like The Jesus and Mary Chain meets The Stone Roses, or like Metallica crossed with Fugazi and Deep Purple, and not like AC/DC crossed with Queen (thou»
Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece
Cody ChesnuTT has got the most incredible voice. It caresses the ear like Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke or Smokey, velvety smooth, sometimes plaintive, sometimes dreamy... He also writes some really beautiful songs... sometimes singing in a similar vein of classic soul to the aforementioned , but often sounding lik»
McG - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Chris Nettleton This glorious preposterous mardi gras of a comedy action flick is the perfect antidote to all those techno 'high concept' action films that are no longer particularly new or clever. From the first moment to the last, Charlie'»
Linkin Park - Faint
While Linkin Park are still amongst the top of the heap over there at Nu-Metal Inc., it appears to be an increasingly small heap, as the bands scrabble around trying to regain the past glories of the silvergoldplatinum singles that splattered them all over our consciousness in the first place. The »
(Review of nothing)
Despite discovering this record several months after release, I'm reviewing it now, because it really warrants shouting about. 'Square' sits somewhere between Tom Waits and the musical jazzy darker beats of »