Album Review
The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
The stories dictate the music, not the other way around.
30th April 2010, 4:12pm
Lee White
Review
Frankie & The Heartstrings - Tender
Equal parts early ’80s New Wave and late ’50s Rock n Roll.
27th April 2010, 4:37pm
Album Review
She & Him - Volume 2
In the end, the indier-than-thou contingent can get lost.
27th April 2010, 3:55pm
Album Review
Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
Unoriginal, samey and altogether rather pleasant.
20th April 2010, 4:22pm
Album Review
Love Is All - Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
There’s many a great moment on this album.
1st April 2010, 5:56pm
Review
Ash - War With Me
It keeps with the Ash tradition of soundtracking gazing up at the stars.
29th March 2010, 8:03pm
Review
Gaggle - I Hear Flies
More ‘Tubthumping’ than social statement.
22nd March 2010, 4:48pm
Review
Late of the Pier - The Best In The Class / Blueberry
Their place in Britain’s underground pop cannon is assured.
9th March 2010, 5:00pm
EP Review
Sir Yes Sir - Not Excited
Providing you’ve got a cassette player that still functions you’ll really want to get this EP.
8th March 2010, 9:08pm
Album Review
Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
Easily recognisable as one of 2010’s great albums.
16th February 2010, 3:15pm
Review
Field Music - Them That Do Nothing
A little bit like Wings being played by some art-pop pranksters.
10th February 2010, 2:45pm
EP Review
Dance To The Radio - 4 x 12” Vol. 4
The four songs here contain more brilliance and more innovation than anything that currently sits in the UK charts.
9th February 2010, 7:27pm
Album Review
Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now! - Fixin’ The Charts, Vol.1
It’s only a small step towards a fix, but it’s a start.
9th February 2010, 7:18pm
Review
The Maccabees feat. Roots Manuva - Empty Vessels
The idea of such a collaboration is enough to wet the appetite itself.
9th February 2010, 5:06pm
Review
Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood
You could almost imagine the Glee cast covering it.
1st February 2010, 5:40pm
Album Review
First Aid Kit - The Big Black And The Blue
The vocal harmonies are delightful and belie their young age.
25th January 2010, 8:12pm
Review
Othello Woolf - Stand
‘Stand’ tries and nearly succeeds in welding together disparate genres from many eras into a subtle dancefloor track.
20th January 2010, 4:44pm
Review
Ash - Space Shot
For the uninitiated on The A-Z Series this is a great place to start.
15th January 2010, 5:58pm
Review
The Incredible Flight Of Birdman – Where I Can’t See You
It may prove to be something truly praiseworthy.
15th January 2010, 5:07pm
Review
Mixtapes & Cellmates - Soon
The overall effect is of something complete and yet un-smothered.
11th January 2010, 6:53pm
Review
New Young Pony Club - Lost A Girl
It’s with a promising start that New Young Pony Club initiate their comeback single…
1st January 2010, 12:26am
Live Review
The Answering Machine, The Harley, Sheffield
These new tracks have a slightly more subtle feel than those with which we are familiar, and bode well for The Answering Machine’s future.
27th November 2009, 2:51pm
Review
The Horrors - Whole New Way
By no means as essential or great.
2nd November 2009, 10:13pm
Album Review
Brakes - Rock Is Dodelijk
Live albums are nearly always a stop-gap release.
2nd November 2009, 9:06pm
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