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The Delgados' new album will be called "HATE". The Delgados will release their new album in September via Mantra Recordings rather than the band's own Chemikal Underground label, because "the resources (human and financial) required to release the new album would have drained Chemikal Und»
'It was a day like this that my house burnt down... and the walls were thin and they crashed to the ground' Yes, Lost Souls was a miserable, difficult debut album with almost any light amid the dark seemingly smothered, but it was still a brilliant, in places heartbreaking, album which announced the »
Lorien are a multinational three-piece who write the kind of quiet acoustic-based songs that have people falling over each other to call them 'the new Coldplay' which may well be enough on its own to put you off them. If you happen to be one of those poor souls who looks for nothing more than beauty in mu»
Muse will release a double A-side of two new songs this June, as well as a double DVD, 'Hullabaloo' of live footage and a documentary. 'Dead Star'/'In Your World' will be released on June 4, followed on June 17 by the DVD featuring 18 songs recorded at concerts in Paris. T»
EMI executive number 1: "Maybe we should give up on this album now?"
EMI executive number 2: "Nah, listen, there's still another track we haven't realeased with actual electric guitars and a bit of pace. Lets have James Walsh wear obscene amounts of make-up in the video and flog a few more copies »
“CHORUS!” It’s the one great moment at the end of a completely unassuming and rather too long acoustic intro when Athlete greet their chorus with a crazed shout that makes lead track ’Westside’ stick in the memory. The suspicion at this stage, though, is that shouting is the only way they'»
Doves' new album will be entitled "The Last Broadcast", and will be released on April 29th on CD and double vinyl. Their follow-up to 2000's critically-acclaimed and Mercury-nominated debut "Lost Souls" will include new single "There Goes The Fear", set to be released and»
Hype is a very dangerous thing and young Brighton duo The Electric Soft Parade have suffered from it as much as anyone. Under their former guise as just The Soft Parade, they were hailed for some reason as one of the best and most exciting new bands around last year, and this album was never really going »
The marketplace for acoustic indie is probably one of the most crowded out there at the moment but, judging by this demo, Bristol five-piece Mirima deserve to find a place in it. 'Twister' begins with atmospheric keyboards and effects, building up a sense of foreboding which perfectly fits the si»
This record is typical Goldrush and as such has absolutely no pretentions towards artistry, experimentalism, meaningfulness, or basically being anything other than a simple acoustic indie pop song. This is bad if you're after miding-bending warped new directions for music to go in, or raw pulsating energy, bu»
This is Halo's follow-up to debut EP 'Still Here', which they shifted thousands of copies of by the clever strategy of giving it away for nothing! It begins with immaculate unbacked harmonies, slightly unexpected after what they've done before. Then there's a moment of feedback before the guitars»
Badly Drawn Boy will release his soundtrack to the film of Nick Hornby book "About A Boy" on April 8th
It will be preceded by a single, "Silent Sigh" on March 25th, and the tracklisting will run:
Finsbury
A Peak You Reach
Something To Talk About
Duck
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Six By Seven's new album will be entitled "The Way I Feel Today", and will be released on March 11th Their follow-up to 2000's debut "The Closer You Get" includes last year's single "So Close", and new single "IOU Love", set for release on 18th Feb. T»
The newest import from that great musical land Iceland, Leaves, like Sigur Ros and Bjork, play slow-moving, delicate music, which will no doubt get called 'glacial' somewhere. Breathe, however, is a slightly easier prospect to get into than either of them, with the words sung in plain»
The debut album by Southampton four-piece Black Nielson, Still Life Hear Me opens with the title track, a two minute thrash with distorted guitars and muffled vocals about "finally giving a damn". Fortunately for fans of last summer's hazy psychedelic single Lasoo The Moon, this turns out»
It’s Not The End Of The World? Is the third single from the current album and is a slow ballad about growing old, though it sadly doesn’t bring quite the manic commitment to the subject that Elbow did. If you haven’t been swayed by the glittering pop songs already released from Rings Around The Wor»
The second studio album from Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Ros, though the only one to make any impact at all on these shores, Agaetis Byrjun is over seventy minutes long, contains an intro and outro which are so minimalist as to barely exist, and has at least two other songs which are suffocatingly boring»
It is rare to find a record that is completely overwhelming and astonishing on first listen, but it is rarer still to find one that sounds special months later after playing the album to death and hearing Lamacq play it every day for weeks. The stand-out track by a long way on the gently wondrous All Is Dream, <»
Mull Historical Society release the song "Watching Xanadu" from their debut album "Loss" on 28th January. The themes of "Watching Xanadu" are, according to Colin MacIntyre on their website, flying, the homeless and love... The band also play the Edinburgh Hogmanay Party on New»
Elbow release new double A-side single, 'Asleep In The Back'/'Coming Second' on 4th Feb next year. 'Coming Second' is the final single to be released from their Mercury nominated album, 'Asleep In The Back', which has recently been certified silver and appeared in »
The Bluetones will release a new single, titled 'Freeze Dried Pop' on March 11 next year. Despite the fact that they have only released 3 studio albums in their career so far, this record is set to be followed by a 'Greatest Hits' compilation of their singles. This album will contain 4 new so»
Now this is an intriguing record. There I was, watching CD:UK for the usual token indie band, when on comes Wyclef Jean, whose recent releases have included the extremely annoying It Doesn’t Matter, the extremely annoying Perfect Gentleman, the hilarious 911, and the extremely annoying
Mercury Rev will release the second single from their critically acclaimed 5th album All Is Dream at the start of 2002. The Dark Is Rising, the first track on the album, will be out on the 14th January with 4 new B-sides across 2 CDs. It follows Nite And Fog, which narrowly missed the»
Cover versions are one of the scourges of the modern pop world, right? Endless pop groups whose management have run out of original ideas deciding to rehash some ‘classic’ and removing any semblance of musical goodness from it. So why should it be any different for indie or rock groups? Well, Muse eloque»
The Delgados’ third album, after punkish debut Domestiques and Peloton’s bizarre mixture of mellow acoustic ballads, crazy experiments and all-out noise-fests, The Great Eastern was deservedly Mercury nominated and finally achieved some sort of public recognition for one of the most inter»
Mercury nominees Elbow will release their first new material since debut album Asleep In The Back early next year. The new song, confusingly also titled Asleep In The Back, will be released on January 28th as a double A-side with Coming Second, the final release from their album. They»
