Basement Jaxx - Scars
The kind of feelgood party you will enjoy enough at the time but probably struggle to remember.
6th October 2009, 1:33pm
The kind of feelgood party you will enjoy enough at the time but probably struggle to remember.
6th October 2009, 1:33pm
It’s the stuff of nightmares, but all in the best possible schlock horror way.
29th September 2009, 2:28pm
A sweet record of patchy loveliness, rather than a heart stopping work of staggering genius that, perhaps naively, we’d been quietly hoping for.
24th September 2009, 1:56pm
Bursting at the seams with ideas.
23rd June 2009, 4:21pm
A very polished, meticulously produced album.
23rd June 2009, 4:06pm
The separate elements of this track really shouldn’t go together, but there’s some weird alchemy going on here.
5th May 2009, 6:34pm
Like a slacker Beach Boys for the 21st century.
29th April 2009, 3:42pm
You can’t help but warm to a band whose lead singer became distressed the other day because he lost his favourite red hat.
29th April 2009, 3:02pm
Who couldn’t find room in their lives for a band like that?
28th April 2009, 12:38pm
Bursting at the seams with songs about the gritty, painful, hilarious and joyful side of true love.
24th September 2008, 1:50pm
The Aliens are treading dangerously thin creative ground…
24th September 2008, 1:30pm
Laid back beats recline over a loose, rolling melody.
24th September 2008, 1:16pm
The track is barely able to contain itself, like a pressure cooker about to explode twenty feet into the air.
28th August 2008, 4:50pm
The whole track bounces along like an excitable puppy.
28th August 2008, 4:40pm
One of those rarities – a debut album that flies dangerously close to perfection.
9th June 2008, 5:01pm
Long may they continue, even if we do have to wait another five long years for the next instalment…
4th April 2008, 9:26pm
The musical equivalent of your mum serving you cold curried sprouts on Boxing Day morning.
1st April 2008, 8:52pm
Surrounded are very happy to veer off into their own universe and are happy to take you along for the ride - but only on their own very specific terms.
10th March 2008, 9:02pm
‘Laguna The Puma’ is a joyful, hazy, hazy surreal mishmash of an album but for all that it’s also a bit flabby round the edges.
3rd December 2007, 8:18pm
We salute Neil’s carefree loopiness, surreally imaginative mind and ability to cut off from the past thirty-five years of music.
3rd December 2007, 8:16pm
Keyboard Choir create the kind of multi-layered synthesised futuristic sounds that instantly conjure up images of Flash Gordon prancing around, trying to save the world.
5th November 2007, 10:03pm
The Undertones are part of the musical furniture – you just can’t imagine them not being there cos they’ve been around so long.
15th October 2007, 8:09pm
If it’s balls out, howling at the moon, twisted rocker Polly Harvey you’re after then ‘White Chalk’ will come as something of a shock.
24th September 2007, 7:53pm
The opening sounds of ‘Mantaray’ are like the world grinding to a halt on a metallic axis before starting to spin in an entirely different direction.
10th September 2007, 8:22pm
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.