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Popular Workshop - We're Alive and We're Not Alone
At their best, with funky basslines driving their post-punk indie quirkiness, Popular Workshop's debut album is a fantastic listen. »
The Vichy Government - White Elephant
Sounding exactly as you'd expect from The Vichy Government except more so, White Elephant is an evil, illogical and utterly essential album»
Pram, Man From Uranus, Xylitol at Cambridge Man On The Moon, Fri 16 Nov
Despite the best efforts of a misbehaving glockenspiel, the audience still gets treated to a night of weird, wonderful and welcomely warming noises at Bad Timing's birthday show, headlined by the Domino-signed Pram»
Champion Kickboxer - Candlepower
A mixture of ponderous harmonies and fragmented, tripping melodies making a counter-intuitive, heavy-duty-gossamer sort of sound. Nicely done, methinx»
Thomas Tantrum - Shake It Shake It
More weird and wonderful low-res indie pop from the instruments of Thomas Tantrum»
Violet Violet - Baby's Going Down
Two slices of loud, angry, attitudinal girl rock with plenty enough tune and inventiveness to be fun. Hurrah»
Miss Pain - Carrion Call
Inflammable nightwear? Endoscopies? Fancy dress? Mills and Boon? S&M cabaret? And a drum machine? Dear me - I suspect you may be referring to the Miss Pain EP...»
We Start Fires - We Start Fires
Technicolour pop tunes laced with the fleeting exuberance of the 2am dancefloor...»
Stranger Son of WB - Hot Banana Wave
Another contribution to the scatterbrained post punk genre - but this one, my friends, is about a surfing icecream sundae. And even if it weren't, it'd still be pretty good...»
Barfly to land in Cambridge
It's a new Barfly venue. In Cambridge. Opening on September 10th. That's quite soon, isn't it? Hurray!»
We Start Fires - Play You
Take the good bits of pop and the good bits of rock and the good bits of punk; throw fizzing keyboards and vocal harmonies all over them; shake the attitude up a bit and voila! the new We Start Fires single...»
Heart Yeah - Traps
Odd noise; not very tuneful noise; challenging noise to listen to; noise full of incongruous noises and twisted inventiveness. Not many melodies, though - but this reviewer doesn't hold it against 'em...»
The Mules - Polly-O
Backwards-sounding heel-kicking hell-raising hillbilly rock. Actually, come to think of it, it may not be so much raising hell as dragging us down to Hell's level...»
Autons - Short Term Manifesto
Flawed? Yes. But fun, and an enjoyable listen? That too. And there are, we conclude, enough highlights to make this album worth hearing...»
Sarah Nixey - The Black Hit of Space
Fuzzing, hypnotic pop with a pleasing mixture of catchiness and oddity - possible causation of the End Of Everything is an acceptable risk, under the circumstances...»
Meat For A Dark Day - Vanity Unfair
A swaggering blaggard of a song with a wonderfully sleazy guitar line - punk-rock simplicity at its most exhibitionist.»
Dandi Wind - Concrete Igloo
Where does one find Einsteinbrains in close contact with a manifestation of the Virgin Mary on a balloon? Why, on this album of course! Why else would I ask this question by the link to this review? Think, fool, think...»
Heart Yeah - Chris Huelsbeck
Angry/melancholy/slightly unbalanced noise with definite addictive qualities - and you don't even have to pay to own it! It's practically the dictionary definition of Best Value...»
Kap Bambino - New Breath/Hey!
Chaotic electro silliness, with danceability and mutant bee noises. Where would we be without mutant bees? Utterly without green honey, that's where...»
We Start Fires - Magazine
Loud fizzy jerky interstellar girl-punk-pop, full of life and goodness - and possibly even a fine source of vitamin D...»
Zombina and the Skeletones - Dracula Blood
A fast-paced synth-rock stomp inviting you to party like it's the undead revival of 1999...»
Margo Guryan - 16 Words
More "sarcastic funeral" than "psychedelic pop", Margo Guryan's comeback single is a sort of militaryn swagger on the subject of George Bush being a bit of a tit. Can't argue with that...»
The Pierces - Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
The Pierces are two sisters, Alison and Catherine Pierce, who were born in Alabama and moved to New York following a frankly highly unlikely chain of events...»
Schmoof - The Glamour
A sugary-yet-sophisticated pop record, laced with affectionate humour and generally made for summer. Consume with cocktails and strawberries. On the dancefloor. While pogo-ing. Oh, go on - it'll be a laugh...»
The United Kingdom of America - Indier Than Thou
It's a song that takes the piss out of indie stereotypes by parodying them - like a cross between Art Brut and the two old men out the Muppets. And y'know what? It's pretty funny. Good work...»
Scarlet Soho - Analogue Dialogue (Kill the Beat)
Sharply dressed and assured electro pop which creates its own insulated universe on the dancefloor...»
Slow Down Tallahassee - So Much For Love
Slow Down Tallahassee, while not doing much that's new with the Girl Group template, do tread the traditional boards in style...»
Sarah Nixey - Sing, Memory
A mixture of subtle electronic atmosphere and pop melodies makes for a haunting and enduring debut solo album from ex-Black Box Recorder singer Sarah Nixey...»