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Using every possible break from Alberta Cross, the English / Swedish band who supported Oasis and The Shins among others, had given him, John Alexander Ericson still needed five years of break times to finish what he started: 'Songs from the White Sea'. Hiding in his small cottage in Wales and only... So Parkwright, what can I say to really describe this band? Parkwright seem to have that surfer vibe about them, but at the same time they lack the energy in their songs to really progress in this genre. Their self titled EP is very ‘samey’ all the way through. I’m not a huge fan of the sound of...

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Parkwright - Self-titled [EP]
Self Released
Recent articles that I've read elsewhere seem to state that guitar bands seem to be coming back onto the music labels radar after the great electro-pop blitz of earlier this year. Bands like The Big Pink, The Chapman Family, Invasion! are all making the magazines and in the latter two's cases they...
There's definitely something in the water down Wales way. Those guys love to rock, and a bunch of them do it well enough to grab some serious attention (and record sales) from the rest of Britain and beyond. Queensbury are the next lot in line hoping to 'do a Funeral' with Breakdown, their debut...

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Queensbury - Breakdown [EP]
Self Released
"Perhaps", said one reviewer, "Interpol's Paul Banks has created a solo career as Julian Plenti because his host band's sound (By 2007's Our Love To Admire) had run it's course". Too right my friend. Run it's course? that's the diplomatic way of putting it. Bled fucking dry might be a more... Close your eyes and imagine you have walked into a horrendously hippie shop; the staff are all wearing huge hemp jumpers and there is that strange smell that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. This is where Ras G's latest collection "Brotha From Anotha Planet" will be playing, wafting through...

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Ras G - Brotha From Anotha Planet [Album]
Brainfeeder / Alpha Pup

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
So I stumbled upon this really accomplished, well-written, smoothly-produced Pop album, 'The Orange Billboard' by The Moonbabies. “The who? Who are these guys? Surely they were in some other project first,” I said to myself. The sound was such polished Indie Pop, I was sure they had cut their... If the music press at large are to be believed, shoe-gazing is about to make a comeback. Of course we're barely a year into the 80's electro-pop 'comeback' so lord knows how long it will take for this planned renaissance to come to fruition. On the evidence of The Warlocks 5th album 'The Mirror... 'Knock Knock' by Catraz is a cheeky, dialogue driven hip-hop skirting finding its way back to the level of popularity that it had a few years ago? Back when the likes of The Streets, Sway and Bromheads Jacket were doling out pub philosophy like sweets. From the depths of his Bristol base,...
The term 'Classic Rock' rightly sends shivers up the spines of most discerning music lovers. The sort of meat-and potatoes blues rock which thrived so decadently in the 60's and 70's is in this day and age seen as a trite and embarrassing reminder of everything we should have moved on from in these... This might be one of the most challenging CD's I have had to review yet (and I've reviewed one by Gary Lewis), but not because it's terrible or that I have writer's block. It's because the album is of George Harrison, and how can you critique something that is almost flawless? 'Let It Roll'... September, October and November are set to be a busy few months for this UK based band. Gigs that include the BBC “Introducing” Stage at the Reading Festival and the Leeds Festival mean that Chickenhawk have garnered the praise and respect that they probably deserve. Chickenhawk are a shouty,...
"Excuse me blonde lady is that for real?" The guy playing on stage was stopped in his tracks. Friends had told me about Beth Jeans Houghton and that she changes her appearance constantly. Tonight she had certainly outdone herself, appearing in a leopard print leotard, a massive white fright wig... Elizabeth & the Catapult could easily have been the name of a new Disney film and that's exactly what the band sounds like. 'Taller Children', the debut album by Elizabeth Ziman and her two bearded friends Pete Lalish (guitar) and Danny Molad (drums) takes you to the magical world of Elizabeth's... Right I'm going to try and only mention this briefly and if I stray off at a tangent as this review progresses then feel free to set badgers upon me! Crocodile live at Stereo in Glasgow lasted a mere 25 minutes. I never even got my pint finished and I did hang around for several tens of minutes...
The coming together of the Grime and Garage genres has caused quite an upheaval in the music world. The “street” sound has garnered much support in the UK and it is starting to stretch its influence outside of the United Kingdom and probably deservedly so. The NextMen are otherwise known as Brad...

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The NextMen - The Lions Den [Single]
Sanctuary Records
Eastern Europe’s star is definitely in the ascendance. Technically efficient and original producers are popping up in nearly every genre, bringing a very edgy and emotional sound to the masses and doing it all in good spirit. PNDC is another to add to this growing list. Secondhand Language is... A glance at the album cover and Nara shows a more than healthy resemblance to a cross between the Brittany Murphy from “8 Mile” and the Gwen Stefani from the No Doubt era. So we can safely assume that we will be getting egdy, pop inspired, culturally aware indie rock music. Am I right? Well...

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Nara - Serenity [Album]
Eslamaphobic Music
House music has always been relatively popular and will probably continue to be popular for quite a while. It will never hurt anyone, it will never be ground breaking, but it will always keep a rooms conversation flowing along nicely without offending or intruding anyone. Let's refer to it is the...

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Nara - Serenity [Single]
Eslamaphobic Music
Hailing from Portland, Oregon in the United States of America, Lovvers are an indie punk band that have not let the constant rain in their part of the world dampen their enthusiastic energy and high tempo punk songs. The opening track 'Creepy Crawl' throws the listener straight into the rock... A packed gig list, a growing band of followers and some very nice publicity that describes Killaflaw as “the missing link between Soundgarden and the Prodigy.” This coupled with industry awards like XFM’s “Demo of the Year Award - 08” means that KillaFlaw is definitely going only one way, and...

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KillaFlaw - Holy Funk [Single]
A Perfect Noise
A relatively established label is releasing a compilation volume of 12 inch vinyl. 4 of them to be exact, each featuring 4 artists. Dance to The Radio (Dance To The Radio) has no less than 71 artists on their current roster, with such diverse names as “Snow White” to “You Slut!” and “:)” to “Shut...

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Dance To The Radio - 4 x 12" [EP]
Dance to the Radio
Being featured on Sunday Best the record label offering from the much publicised Rob da Bank means that Bastila are set for success. 'Ghosts' is a dreamy, guitar led, atmospheric track that sits in a sea of reverb, delay and echo and has more than a nod to the Psychedelic Progressive Rock...

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Bastila - Ghosts [Single]
Sunday Best Records
After reading some overexcited reviews, some praising “Machinery Saints” as some kind of masterpiece and some labelling it as a total messy nonsense, I was quite curious to hear this debut album from New Jersey post-hardcore/punk newcomers Rapid Cities; just after listening to the first couple of...

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Rapid Cities - Machinery Saints [Album]
Love/Hate / Look Again
Re-releasing the track that brought them to the attention of those outside of Preston (helped largely by them bagging ‘Myspace Artist of the Week’) perhaps suggests that Team Waterpolo (and/or their record label) are already getting a little desperate. Yes I know re-releasing singles is nothing... Taken from his second album 'Sunny Side Up', 'Coming Up Easy' is Paolo Nutini's successful attempt to lift up the soullessness of everyday hit parade pop. Though you might argue about whether or not the song is representative for his latest album, as he covers basically all musical genres on ‘Sunny... Kenny Ball, Acker Bilk and Chris Barber, also known as the 3B's, were highly influential in reviving traditional jazz in Britain in the fifties and sixties. The threesome, respectively playing trumpet, clarinet and trombone made the country jump jive and wail long before it lost its virginity to...
Golden Animals were not scheduled to come on stage until midnight, and by this time the audience had thinned out, leaving a preponderance of 40+ musos. American vocalist / guitarist Tommy Eisner and Swedish-born drummer and vocalist Linda Beecroft were onstage promptly enough but were still... ‘Curiouser’ is the follow up album from Kate Miller-Heidke after the success of her debut album titled ‘Little Eve’, released in 2007. This time Kate and her band have created a brilliant blend of rock, pop and folk that seems to push the brink of musical insanity to a new level. Kate...

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Kate Miller-Heidke - Curiouser [Album]
Sony/BMG International Records

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 Over stars and gutters seem to be one of those bands that are genuinely in the game purely for their love of making music. Their no messing around attitude to getting out there and getting the songs done is nothing short of impressive. Over Stars and Gutters pride themselves on what they do, not...
I love picking up music without knowing anything about it until I put it in my player. If the cover of a disc itself gives up little information – and some covers are utterly enigmatic – I have no idea what I’m going to get. I really enjoy this process and I pick stuff up with no preconceived... With their infectious and exciting sound, Black Bikini Alpha are taking the music world by storm. With only 2 band members it is pretty impressive to hear that they don't lack any kind of musical power or drive. Their latest release is a strong British record titled ‘Grand Madness’. ‘Grand... See, here's the thing. Up in those tall glass buildings, the marketing men look out from behind their Gucci shades and plot how to sex up everything. Their preference is to get us as early as possible; the logic is that the sooner we get it on with each other, the sooner we realise that 99 times...
Blame Bam Margera. That's what haters of the gothic movement could probably say over the past few years as he single handily made HIM and bands of a similar ilk so popular in recent years via cameos in his TV shows and his cameos in the band's videos. A perfect amalgamation of mutual promotion,...

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The 69 Eyes- Back In Blood [Album]
The END / Nuclear Blast

We Recommend you buy this CD
 The Woodstock Experience is a genius idea. Combining an artist's studio album and their Woodstock performance, along with a poster in a nice little box set makes for one sweet package. There are five of these sets in total (Santana, Johnny Winter, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, and... Although quite established herself already within the world of bluegrass and folk since the mid-nineties, Alison Krauss only became hot news when her collaboration with Robert Plant turned out to be a huge success. Their 2007 album 'Raising Sand' gave them raving reviews and five Grammy Awards last...
All six tracks on this 'To Hell With Love' EP also appear on German punk poppers Donots latest album 'Coma Chameleon'. That being said, 'To Hell With Love' is merely a promo taster and not an actual release as such. It's a nice introduction to Donots deal though and not what I was expecting when I...

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Donots - To Hell With Love [EP]
Solitary Man Records
Whispers in the Riot’s newest release is 4 songs of pure metal energy. Yes it really is as simple as that. The self titled EP shows just what these guys are made of thrusting complete and raw power through your ears from the very beginning and not letting up for a second, even if you are... When I first heard Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' back in the summer of 2004 I (like most others who struck upon this low-key classic) was instantly floored by just how fucking good it was. With it's cathartic, beautiful songs, it re-imagined a sound which had been used by bands such as Broken Social...

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Fanfarlo - Reservoir [Album]
Self Released

We Recommend you buy this CD
Black Gold like fucking with you. This pair of Brooklyn based boys are determined to make whatever kind of noise they want and for any pigeon holes to be damned. Sure enough they aren't the first band to kick against industry expectations but the difference here is Black Gold do so with apparent...

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Black Gold - Detroit [Single]
Red Bull Records
Philadelphia quartet The Capitol Years have been keeping a damn low profile since their 2006 release 'Dance Away The Terror', a hiatus I've been struggling to get an explanation for. I've consoled myself since with the fact that given they've only ever released two albums as a completed line up... Barry White is back and this time, he's thin and white. Now that I've got your attention by using the worst introduction ever, let's talk about Mayer Hawthorne. A 29 year old singer born close to soul city Detroit, the capital of soul ballads that inevitably had an undeniable influence on the...
Sons Of Seasons seem to be a combination of symphonic and progressive Metal both combined together. Sons of Season hail from the land of Germany and was created out of very unlikely circumstances as during the formation the members at the time were in Blaze Bayley (Wolfsbane / Iron Maiden... Fejd are similar to another band from Norway that I recently reviewed here on Altsounds.com. The comparison band in question is Glittertind and the similarities are that firstly they're both folk Metal bands, secondly they only do songs in their native Norwegian tongue and thirdly the songs are...

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Fejd- Storm [Album]
Napalm Records
Since their formation in 2007 through auditions, The Saturdays have quickly become one of Britain’s biggest pop acts bringing to the spot light their brand of Electro-Pop. Over this short time they have brought us their debut and self titled album, as well as a hand full of hits and chart toppers....

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The Saturdays - Work [Single]
Polydor Group





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