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Talons - Hollow Realm
The anxious instrumental frenzy that constitutes the debut album from Hereford-based six-piece Talons is an uneasy listen. Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources, perhaps most notably Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Biffy Clyro and...
Review posted on 8th November 2010
Allo Darlin - My Heart Is A Drummer
allo darlin' make the kind of content folky surf pop that's accessible to many and this release is no exception. From strummed ukulele and exposed, delicate female vocals, 'My Heart Is A Drummer' builds in...
Review posted on 28th October 2010
Leni Ward - Hope
Hope is a self-written, produced, engineered and performed synthesiser overdose of an album from Derby-based multi-instrumentalist Leni Ward. Unfortunately, despite precious hype, Hope is a rather disappointing effort which lacks personality and any sense of...
Review posted on 28th October 2010
China Soul - Secrets & Words
China Soul is a Florida-born, expressive voiced singer-songwriter who draws considerable inspiration from song writing greats such as Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman. Debut album, Secrets & Words, is a release of great inconsistency which...
Review posted on 25th October 2010
The Chapman Family - All Fall
Despite having played as part of the NME Radar Tour 2009, The Chapman Family, a quartet from Stockton-On-Tees, have waited until now to knock out this beastly come back single. The frantic pounding drums and...
Review posted on 25th October 2010
Matt Costa - Mobile Chateau
There's an almighty retro feel oozing through Mobile Chateau, the self-produced third album from Californian-born singer-songwriter Matt Costa. Moving on from the more contented, happy-go-lucky material found on earlier releases and away from a style...
Review posted on 25th October 2010
Fortune - Under The Sun
With its multiplicity of synths and fresh electro groove, 'Under The Sun' heralds Fortune as something of a French Hot Chip. Expertly blending a bed of solid, funky drums with piano and a moving bass...
Review posted on 21st October 2010
Phantom Limb - Live In Bristol
Imagine the best vocal elements of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Nicks and Alison Krauss all manifested in one phenomenal folk-tinged, soulful country-blues-meets-gospel voice; Phantom Limb's Yolanda Quartey, a voice in a million and a true shining...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Tinashe - Saved
Zimbabwe born twenty-something Tinashe is a feel-good breath of fresh air to contemporary popular music. Not obsessed with trying to replicate any specific style, 'Saved' is an eleven track effort of catchy, soulful pop with...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Bellowhead - Hedonism
Hedonism is the third album from Bellowhead, an eleven piece multi-instrumental folk-funk collective with an almighty appetite for entertainment. Combining all kinds of brass, wind, strings, melodeons, bagpipes and an array of percussion all under...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Marina and the Diamonds - Shampain
There are numerous much-hyped twenty-something females currently attempting to make waves in the British pop scene (think Goulding, Lott, Faith et al.), all of which have the same frustrating tendency towards similarity and repetition and...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Moneytree - The Great Indoors Part III
With this, the third in a trilogy of EP releases entitled 'The Great Indoors' parts I, II and III respectively, Moneytree prove themselves as a challenging yet fascinating alternative rock collection. Combining a whole spectrum...
Review posted on 18th October 2010
Badly Drawn Boy - It's What I'm Thinking (Part One - Photographing Snowflakes)
The high point of tea cosy hat wearing singer-songwriter Damon Gough's career was probably beating Coldplay and Doves to win the Mercury Music Prize with his debut album 'The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast' back...
Review posted on 11th October 2010
iLiKETRAiNS - He Who Saw The Deep
This album will appeal to more than just train spotters. Spine-tingling, goose-bump inducing alternative post-rock brilliance is what this Leeds-based quartet offer with their second full length album. A year since the release of the...
Review posted on 11th October 2010
Beatbullyz - Human Nature
With their roots in the rundown, nowhere town of Swindon, Wiltshire, Beatbullyz are unlikely upcoming stars, let alone the UK's answer to the Black Eyed Peas as the Guardian suggested back in 2009. Look past...
Review posted on 11th October 2010
Burn The Negative - How To Weigh The Human Soul
At a time when musical traits of the 'eighties are undergoing something of a rejuvenated renaissance, Carlisle based synth-obsessives Burn The Negative return, fingers right on the pulse, with their second album, How To Weigh...
Review posted on 11th October 2010
Plants And Animals - La La Land
Following the gentle, acoustic-led folk that the Montreal-based trio Plants & Animals preceded La La Land with, hopes of something similarly divine from their debut UK album have been dashed by this release. La La...
Review posted on 11th October 2010
Royksopp - Beautiful Day Without You
RoyksoppBeautiful Day Without YouSingle ReviewRoyksopp can always be relied on to provide summery feel-good electro, and they have failed to disappoint yet again. Beautiful Day Without You is everything the Norwegian duo do best distilled...
Review posted on 31st May 2006
Milburn - Send In The Boys
MilburnSend In The BoysSingle ReviewMilburn are a band from Sheffield who sing songs about girls and the city over mod-punk riffs.Sound familiar?Yes, just as Reef and Shed 7 followed Oasis, Milburn follow everyone's favourite indie...
Review posted on 21st March 2006
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