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romanisbetter has written the following articles:
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 nod with»
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 Alr»
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 in h»