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Depeche Mode - Delta Machine Album Review
A lot has happened in the four years since Depeche Mode released their last record. An Austrian skydiver jumped from space, the Conservative and Liberal parties formed a coalition government, London hosted the Olympic Games...
Review posted on 4th April 2013
Die! Die! Die! - Harmony Album Review
New Zealand's Die! Die! Die! are something of an anomaly. Raised on a diet of English post-punk and American hardcore, they've steadily developed into one of the most prolific acts in recent years. While their...
Review posted on 25th March 2013
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II Album Review
A name like Unknown Mortal Orchestra might suggest an army of classically trained musicians shrouded in suspense. The reality of course, is even more enticing. Essentially the brainchild of Ruban Nielson, a formidable guitar player...
Review posted on 22nd March 2013
Wild Belle - Isles Album Review
Is there a worse musical genre than 'Cod Reggae'?For a few short months in the autumn of 1980, that much-derided terminology actually became synonymous with all things cool. At the time, Blondie's 'The Tide Is...
Review posted on 19th March 2013
Fidlar - Fidlar Album Review
"Beat on the brat with a baseball bat", sang Joey Ramone back in 1976 and whilst not advocating violent behaviour towards others using sporting apparatus, there's little doubt Los Angeles quartet Fidlar qualify as your...
Review posted on 12th March 2013
PVT - Homosapien Album Review
When a band initially starts out as an improvisational-based experiment, its inevitable that one day they'll discover then settle on a certain formula for the foreseeable future. Having started out on their voyage of discovery...
Review posted on 11th February 2013
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse Album Review
Having created what many see as your definitive statement, coup de grace, or indeed whatever kind of superlative adjective numerous commentators choose to bestow on such a grandiose artefact, its difficult to envisage from where...
Review posted on 1st February 2013
Ducktails - The Flower Lane Album Review
As side projects go, Matt Mondanile's Ducktails has proved just as fulfilling to date as his role on guitar with the equally acclaimed Real Estate. While his first half dozen releases amounted to little more...
Review posted on 31st January 2013
Vitalic - Rave Age Album Review
Gallic musician-cum-producer Pascal Arbez-Nicolas has been a leading light on the electronic scene for the best part of two decades. Better known as Vitalic, having started his own label Citizen Records as far back as...
Review posted on 7th January 2013
Fake Blood - Cells Album Review
Remember The Wiseguys? You should. Their single 'Ooh La La' soundtracked a Budweiser commercial at the tail end of the 1990s, narrowly missing out on the coveted number one spot upon its re-release. Just over...
Review posted on 4th January 2013
Foals - The Venue, Derby Live Review
When Foals announced their return in October it was met with many a huge sigh of relief. Not least because of the current dearth of genuinely innovative guitar bands doing the rounds. While little was...
Review posted on 6th December 2012
Various Artists - Annie Mac Presents 2012 Album review
As the face and voice of Radio One's more cutting edge dance grooves, Annie Mac has established herself as one of the station's more credible ambassadors in recent years. Her rite of passage dates back...
Review posted on 8th November 2012
Injured Birds - Silver Birches Album review
Nottingham supergroup-of-sorts Injured Birds may be the next discovery off the city's seemingly vibrant production line of talent to follow the likes of Jake Bugg and Dog Is Dead onto national daytime radio playlists and...
Review posted on 8th November 2012
Various Artists - Rough Trade Shops: Bella Union 15 Album Review
While the major record labels have been in financial decline for over a decade now, mainly bemoaning the increasing influx of illegal internet downloads for their peril, many independents have thrived, largely by operating purely...
Review posted on 30th October 2012
Rita Ora - Ora Album Review
Despite being only twenty-one years of age, Rita Ora has experienced more than many would probably see in an entire lifetime, born in 1990 in the Kosovan capital of Pristina at the height of the...
Review posted on 30th October 2012
Tim Burgess - Oh No I Love You Album review
When you've been in the music business as long as Tim Burgess has, expectations kind of lose priority somewhat. Yet, despite his veteran status, Burgess has spent the best part of the last decade doing...
Review posted on 8th October 2012
The Presets - Pacifica Album Review
Dance music and concept albums aren't two themes you'd normally associate together. Unless you're The Presets that is. Having already released the sprawling 'Apocalypso' four years ago as a celebration of the end of time,...
Review posted on 8th October 2012
Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights Album Review
'I loved you so much but you never gave a f**k.'Hardly the kind of language one would expect to hear from the girl dubbed the nation's sweetheart. But then it's probably fair to say Cheryl...
Review posted on 8th October 2012
Peace - Delicious
Birmingham four-piece Peace have been heralded as one of this year's "saviours of guitar music" which is perhaps a little unfair considering they've barely reached their third anniversary together as a going concern. Nevertheless, this...
Review posted on 18th September 2012
Bestival - 2012 Isle Of Wight, 6-10th September, Live Review
For anyone that's never been to Bestival and is yet to be persuaded about making the thirty-five minute boat trip over the English Channel, you really are missing out. Take the best bits of Glastonbury,...
Review posted on 13th September 2012
Bestival - 2012 Preview
As 2012's festival season draws to a close, the traditional final curtain falls every year on the Isle Of Wight. Bestival, curated by Radio 1's Rob De Bank, has firmly established itself as one of...
Review posted on 3rd September 2012
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard might not be familiar names to some, but as Dead Can Dance they've created some of the most unique collections of music to emerge from the underground. Having formed in...
Review posted on 16th August 2012
The Antlers - Undersea
It's difficult to imagine what's going through Peter Silberman's seemingly troubled mind at the best of times, so there's little point in a half-arsed analysis from someone not schooled in such matters. Picking up the...
Review posted on 13th August 2012
Chemical Brothers - Don't Think - Live From Japan
Earlier this year, The Chemical Brothers became the first artists of their kind to release a four-dimensional movie of a live performance in cinemas only. Recorded last July at the Fuji Rock festival in Niigata,...
Review posted on 23rd July 2012
A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship
Having already released two near-flawless records, the first of which wasn't even intended to come out as an album anyway, plotting that next move or course in direction can be an arduous task. While 2009's...
Review posted on 20th June 2012
Joey Ramone - Ya Know?
As iconic frontmen go, there are very few past or present that hold a candle to Joey Ramone. Along with the rest of his stage-ordained "siblings", the man christened Jeffrey Ross Hyman by his parents...
Review posted on 18th June 2012
Two Wounded Birds - Two Wounded Birds
The first time we set eyes on Two Wounded Birds, they'd just opened for The Drums at Nottingham's Rock City so it comes as little surprise that the aforementioned band's Jacob Graham promptly signed them...
Review posted on 11th June 2012
Primavera Sound Festival, 2012 Live Review
Heralded as the highpoint of Europe's busy festival season and rightly so, the 2012 edition of Primavera Sound is almost upon us once more. Now in its twelfth year, Primavera Sound have been running a...
Review posted on 7th June 2012
iLiKETRAiNS - The Shallows
If any current band were to put together a concept record based on historical intellect while referencing great thinkers such as Freud and Nietzsche, it would be I Like Trains. Having spent their entire career...
Review posted on 21st May 2012
The Great Escape - 2012
As the UK hub of all things liberal, Brighton's status as the undisputed city of culture shows shows no sign of coming under threat just yet. With its quirky boutiques, countless bars and venues, picturesque...
Review posted on 16th May 2012
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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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