Pulled Apart By Horses - Tough Love
3-5 Stars
An album made not just to show you something, but to feel something too.
23rd January 2012
3-5 Stars rated Albums & EPs
Neil Cowley Trio - The Face Of Mount Molehill
3-5 Stars
Will this signpost the way for jazz to take over?
21st January 2012
Tribes - Baby
3-5 Stars
Rather than trying to re-write music, Tribes are simply proving that they have an ear for writing brit-poppy rock.
15th January 2012
Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler - This Is Christmas
3-5 Stars
A suitably interesting take on the Christmas album.
23rd December 2011
Air Cav – Don’t Look Indoors
3-5 Stars
A promising debut for Air Cav, one which should bring them closer to Manchester’s current elite.
12th December 2011
RKC - British Plastic
3-5 Stars
Proof of Ficek’s growing ability as a wonderful musician.
5th December 2011
†Hymns† - Cardinal Sins / Contrary Virtues
3-5 Stars
Manville and Reisnerʼs vision and ambition should be applauded.
17th November 2011
She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas
3-5 Stars
Really your enjoyment of the album is going to come down to whether you’re a Christmas-hating Scrooge or a more Buddy the Elf type.
8th November 2011
Swimming - Ecstatics International
3-5 Stars
Swimming make you feel as though you’re in space, in the future, made of foam.
7th November 2011
Cass McCombs - Humor Risk
3-5 Stars
This album proves McCombs’ versatility and talent for story telling.
4th November 2011
Buraka Som Sistema - Komba
3-5 Stars
‘Komba’ does more than an average dance record should.
3rd November 2011
Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures
3-5 Stars
Nobody can moan that ‘National Treasures’ is too selective.
2nd November 2011
H. Hawkline – Strange Uses Of Ox Gall
3-5 Stars
A cryptically titled record that gives way to the even eerier eccentricities it contains within.
2nd November 2011
Emika - Emika
3-5 Stars
A lovingly and meticulously manicured album.
1st November 2011
Babybird - The Pleasures Of Self Destruction
3-5 Stars
It seems Stephen Jones is full of the joys of love; it is all very life-affirming stuff.
31st October 2011
Megadeth - Th1Rt3EN
3-5 Stars
Good old fashioned, classic heavy metal in its rough and ready glory.
30th October 2011
The Birthday Suit - The Eleventh Hour
3-5 Stars
The Birthday Suit bring enough of a new twist to not be a retread of past glories.
29th October 2011
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
3-5 Stars
Florence tackles that difficult second album, and she’s holding nothing back.
28th October 2011
Magazine - No Thyself
3-5 Stars
Listening to the fifth Magazine album ‘No Thyself’ makes for a rather strange experience…
27th October 2011
The Strange Boys - Live Music
3-5 Stars
The most commercial Strange Boys record yet.
23rd October 2011
Givers - In Light
3-5 Stars
An extremely rich pudding of an album.
19th October 2011
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
3-5 Stars
The easy – and lazy – way to describe High Flying Birds is it sounds exactly like you imagine it would.
17th October 2011
Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
3-5 Stars
A cracking, crackling debut which at it’s best reminds just what a thrilling, invigorating world indie-pop can be.
17th October 2011
Wilco - The Whole Love
3-5 Stars
Bells, whistles and electronic washes.
14th October 2011
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.