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Health - Disco 2
For those of you unfamiliar with them, as themselves LA four piece HEALTH are a mass of shimmering, discordant white noise, punk-shoegaze atrophy and rolling drums; both their eponymous debut album and it's 2009 successor...
Review posted on 1st September 2010
Skream - Outside The Box
As any movement transitions from lowly origins to mainstream recognition, there are always discernible turning points. For The Sex Pistols it was that drunken appearance with an even drunker Bill Grundy, whilst in 1989 thousands...
Review posted on 24th August 2010
Graffiti6 - Stare Into The Sun
You can ignore the chintzy (Un) co-incidentals around the origins of their name - all of the members are all into graffiti apparently, and when they play live there's an even half dozen of them...
Review posted on 17th August 2010
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Selected for the long list of the BBC's "Sound of 2010" poll, Everything Everything chose to submit "My Keys Your Boyfriend" as the track that would define them the line up of tastemakers that the...
Review posted on 16th August 2010
Faust - Faust Is Last
Last time we met Hans Joachim Irmler he was providing some deft motorik touches on To Rococo Rot's Speculation album, but here he's returned into the belly of what in the kaftan era was described...
Review posted on 10th August 2010
Procedure Club - Doomed Forever
Canada's Slumberland label appear to have a mission to resurrect the C-86 era for the few who weep for it, previously releasing Chin Chin's Sound of the Westway and here giving a platform to Procedure...
Review posted on 19th July 2010
Burns - European Sex Music
Anyone who's ever fooled around with a trial copy of Mixmeister will be able to tell you that this DJ-ing thing is nowhere near as easy at it looks, unless you're only planning on doing...
Review posted on 19th July 2010
Foals - Total Life Forever
With Bloc Party on temporary (?) hiatus, the way seems clear for Foals to ascend to the now vacant position of everyone's favourite credible indie types, an aspiration that can't be hindered by the Oxford...
Review posted on 19th July 2010
Morcheeba - Blood Like Lemonade
Blood Like Lemonade is you suppose proof that above all, time's a healer. During Morcheeba's commercial peak in the late nineties their blend of drowsy hip-hop and warped lounge shifted units by the million and...
Review posted on 28th June 2010
Uffie - Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
It's a refreshing dose of honesty in an age where people with negligible talent make careers out of convincing those with none that their ship will come in; 'I never claimed I was an artist,...
Review posted on 24th June 2010
Filthy Pedro - Filthy Pedro and the Carthaginians
During the 80's - a generally miserable decade for all concerned - a band from the Wirral called Half Man, Half Biscuit combined shambolic post C-86 sounds with a bemusing daft turn of phrase along...
Review posted on 21st June 2010
To Rococo Rot - Speculation
There's been quite a lot of 'Sonic cathedral of sound' type critical acclaim for 'Speculation', the eighth album from Berlin tri o To Rococo Rot. Some of it must surely be due to the irony...
Review posted on 9th June 2010
Teenage Fanclub - The Cockpit, Leeds 04/06/2010
For their diehard fans the effect of listening to Teenage Fanclub's ninth album Shadows, released last month, will have been like getting a big hug from a favourite auntie. Lacking star guest spots from the...
Review posted on 7th June 2010
Nicolai Dunger - Play
Nicolai Dunger himself adorns the cover of Play, a monochrome study lying on the ground, fag in mouth, as he plays with a mongrel dog who seems to be making best efforts to flee the...
Review posted on 1st June 2010
Akala - Doublethink
Akala is certainly making head waves in UK hip hop circles gaining respect and acclaim. Certainly he made an impression with me with his first album 'It's Not A Rumour' showing definite skills and good...
Review posted on 28th May 2010
Crowded House - Intriguer
To this ageing hack, there will always be a special place in the heart for Crowded House's third album, Woodface. Flush with youth and a first significant other, it's erudite mix of classic songwriting and...
Review posted on 24th May 2010
Aqualung - Magnetic North
The chances are that although you won't have heard of Aqualung, you'll have heard them, so to speak. Aqualung is essentially the cherubic looking and musical teen prodigy-ish Matt Hales and his gold selling eponymous...
Review posted on 24th May 2010
Grum - Heartbeats
Hard to believe it, but six years have gone by since the release of Destroy Rock N' Roll, the commercial dance meisterwork of Hebridean/Californian Mylo. A mass of sun-kissed future disco with a sample-adelic glaze...
Review posted on 17th May 2010
Kyte - Dead Waves
Leicestershire four piece Kyte seem to polarise opinion, one man's majestic dream pop being equally another's monchromatic Bono-isms. The feeling that an icy wash of panic set in at the realisation that album number three...
Review posted on 11th May 2010
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Ganglians are a four piece from Sacramento for whom the last fourty-odd years of musical history seem to be a mere inconvenience. Their debut album, Monster Head Room has been waiting almost a year for...
Review posted on 6th May 2010
Chin Chin - Sound Of The Westway
Punk Rock wasn't just the Johnny and Malcolm show, much as it might seem that way now; despite its relative brevity and ultimately delivering little that could be classified as musical innovation, more than thirty...
Review posted on 29th April 2010
White Belt Yellow Tag - Methods
yourcodenameis:milo were one of those cult bands from the north east who like Field Music were on many people's cool lists, but by and large stayed in that box marked 'Angular and difficult to get...
Review posted on 19th April 2010
Stevie and The Moon - These Old Traditions
When the Reid brothers threw the R away on their 1987 debut album This Is The Story, to hear them proudly toting their Scottish burr was a minor revelation. Of course nearly two and a...
Review posted on 12th April 2010
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
John Grant is the former lead singer of Denver's gloomy but grand Czars, a band whom you probably haven't heard of. Queen of Denmark is his first solo record, one recorded in collaboration with Texans...
Review posted on 6th April 2010
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Laura Marling's recent history is a public one, so requires a brief recap only for those who inhabit planet chart. Discovered at the tender age of sixteen through MySpace, she initially worked with Noah &...
Review posted on 26th March 2010
The Who - The Greatest Hits & More
Some of those Contact readers born in the eighties and nineties will be unfamiliar with The Who, other than when their dad plays 'My Generation' in the mirror whilst furiously imitating Pete Townsend's air-guitar windmilling....
Review posted on 22nd March 2010
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Attempting to document Gil Scott-Heron's life and career in the space of a few hundred words is an exercise in futility, so I direct you when this piece is finished to somewhere on the internet...
Review posted on 2nd March 2010
The Kissaway Trail - Sleep Mountain
Review of The Kissaway Trail's album Sleep MountainCritics who claim that Danish five piece The Kissaway Trail are a poor man's Arcade Fire will doubtless have a self satisfied grin on their faces during SDP,...
Review posted on 24th February 2010
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (With Beck)
Review of Charlotte Gainsbourg (with Beck) album IRMCynics suggest that it's difficult to figure out Charlotte Gainsbourg. Is the daughter of one of France's most feted performers an actress who sings or a singer who...
Review posted on 2nd February 2010
Micah P Hinson - All Dressed Up And Smelling Of Strangers
Review of Micah P Hinson's album All Dressed Up And Smelling Of StrangersThe covers album rarely inspires; usually a gesture of flatulent self-indulgence or contract fulfilment, notably winning executions are few, although Cat Power's Jukebox...
Review posted on 27th January 2010
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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