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'Here Come The Vikings' marks the 4th studio outing for Astrid Williamson and sounds a hell of a long way from her home of the Shetland Islands as I'm sure most of you will be picturing sheep at 45 degree angles bracing against the wind when thinking of the Shetlands and not music of this calibre...

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Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings (Album)
One Little Indian - Out 8th June
As a rule I should automatically detest any band who have the chutzpah to mention their own name once in their song lyrics (decent hip-hop gets a free pass here but Limp Bizkit does not) and Man Like Me break this sacred rule moments into one of their self titled debut albums stronger tracks, and...

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Man Like Me - Man Like Me [Album]
Our Time Records
In the final part of the Napalm/SPV records special we take a trip to the gothic side of life (and this review is being written on what is being coined as Goth Day so perfect timing!) Norway in metal terms to the majority reminds people of the Lords Of Chaos set that burnt churches, made...

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Trail Of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance [Album]
Napalm/SPV records (released 1st June)
According to the Love is a Liability Press release, “Planet Mu has a long and distinguished record of breaking new and exciting artists”. A glance at www.planet-mu.com and one starts to realise how many artists they have given a “break” too. Their roster is huge, and you start to think that surely... Rochelle are an unashamed Electro-Pop band from London. Their last single was endorsed by Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim, and Chin Up made its debut on Pete Tongs’ Radio One show, “In New Music We Trust”. We can safely assume that the marketing wheel of this band is in full rotation…. Electro Pop has...

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Rochelle - Chin Up [Single]
Planet Clique records
Any collective, whatever genre, that has existed, successfully, for almost two decades must be applauded for both their efforts and their contribution to music on the whole. So applause goes to Transglobal Underground. The self titled “hipsters, flipsters and finger popping daddies” of the music...
Like the ever-dividing Marmite, “Family Man” will cause rows. Either “Family Man” wins you over by the songs' clever construction and claustrophobic beats or you’re left struggling to connect to the emotionless lyrical delivery. The lyrics are full of powerful phrases, but Matt Rimmer delivers... So we now come to the third in our special Napalm/SPV series with a move from one mythology to another. While Alestorm use the world of pirates, Tyr use primarily the world of Vikings combined with Swedish/Finnish and Faroese traditional music to create their world. Now from a personal... This review is the second in a four part series of recent releases off the Napalm/SPV label. With the buzz around Pirates Of The Caribbean still fresh in everyone’s mind last year the timing of Alestorm’s first album Captain Morgan’s Revenge was pretty much bang on the money with a good...

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Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight [Album]
SPV/Napalm Records - Released 1st June
To set the scene then, ‘Ain’t Going To Nike Town’ is the kind of track that soundtracks a 50 year old former-hippy off his face on scrumpy dancing the night away at Glastonbury at 1am. Son Of Dave have managed to preserve an old-fashioned ‘cool’ that music used to have in the past when the world... Team Waterpolo have created a nice little track with "Room 44", as long as you only listen to it once. "Room 44" has a catchy hook, nice vocals and an interesting use of electro. It’s radio friendly with a bright and cheery sound but on the whole it’s a very predicable track that can be easily...

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Team Waterpolo - Room 44 [Single]
Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
Listening to Ane Brun is like being tickled gently by a small kitten. She warms every vein in your heart with her haunting Scandinavian charm. The whole track conjures up a feeling of picturesque landscapes and snowdrops slowly falling. There is a sense of distress throughout, making a dramatic and...

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Ane Brun - The Puzzle [Single]
Balloon Ranger Records
Nic Drou's USP is (one suspects) his resolute britishness, this is a trait he shares with brum-hop pioneer Mike Skinner. However the rapid-fire deliveries, intelligent lyrics and twisted backing tracks on display here bring more to mind the left-field exploits of American alt-hop veterans ELP and... The energy of a thermo-nuclear hip-hop meltdown attacks the listener from the very first moment. Despite sitting down while writing this, my ass still finds a way to shake itself. Every word dripping like sexual honey from the mouth of Ezra Bang, simultaneously acerbic and smooth, hits my ear with... Get your fill of this track now because come July you'll be wishing for just one day of freedom from the grime-house combination (not grimey-house as in 'How Clean Is Your House' with that condescending bat and the dirty little one that has no objections to sticking her fingers into crusty dog...
If Atari were a music label they would release music like Esser: filled with retro Electronica. Although there have been many comparisons drawn to a male Lily Allen, Esser is nothing but himself: using layered vocals in different pitches to create a strangely addictive, bouncy, fresh sound. Who...

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Esser - Headlock (Spike Stent Mix) [Single]
Transgressive Records Ltd/Warner Music UK
Beast’s self-titled album markets itself as electronic Trip-Hop. The PR material at B E A S T states that “the words slam down, wrapped deep around grinding grooves, dripping with urgency”. Quite a description, yet true. Beast’s vocals, sung, spoken and rapped by Betty Bonifassi are dark, moody,...

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Beast - Beast [Album]
Pheromone
The Prodigy have been making music since I was in Comprehensive school. Me and my mates used to slam on all the classics such as "Fire" and "Charlie Says" and be amazed by how different it was to anything we had ever heard before. This was before they had garnered any major commercial success a...
"Trip is a silver-tongued spitter with a lyrical affinity for the roller coaster ride of city living". That's what it said on the sticker on the CD's card sleeve. After reading it, I had an inkling what to expect. Lyrics about waking up, having a shower, eating breakfast and leaving your house to...

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Trip - River Phoenix [Album]
Autonomy Recordings Ltd.
There’s not an awful lot to say about Ben’s Brother (an encouraging start, I know) –if you liked the debut, ‘Beta Male Fairytales’, back in 2007 then Battling Giants is sure to be a winner and well worth picking up. However, if you were indifferent, as the majority of people using this site in... There is a lot of hype surrounding Alex Child AKA Trip. Music-News.com states that the album is….. “a great piece of individual modern poetry”. Based in London, 24 year old Alex Child has created an album that is a “tragic-comic kaleidoscope of city life as seen through the eyes of a 24 year old...
So, seemingly a song about alcohol abuse by an overly polished boy band with instruments – not really my cup of tea. The problem here I think is that I enjoy alcohol abuse and hate boys bands with instruments but, I do suppose that bands realistically can’t please everyone! ‘Bottle After Bottle’... Anyone who is not a fan of Metric’s latest album, Fantasies, would have been mightily disappointed with this gig, and presumably any on the entire tour. Only five tracks played on Monday night were not from that album, as Metric clearly look to promote Fantasies hard (they played it in its...

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Metric [Live] @ Manchester Academy 3
Monday 11th May 2009
Appearing solo as well as with a backing band on stage, Manchester based singer/ guitarist Simon Connor's first outlet offstage ‘Seaside Surprise’ is a good example of his work, showing his abilities to change personal experiences into film themed stories. The EP starts off with the spooky ‘Open...
Fed up with lies, a predictable and secure life and with distaste for everything taught at school, New Jersey based punk/hardcore band One Win Choice decided to break their chains and discover their own road. The journey has recently found its way to Europe, where the band will give away thirty... There’s a fine line between sad 80’s throwback band that wishes time would reverse so the hair metal hay-day could be relived, and an ‘incendiary’ act that seems to transcend all boundaries of generation bias. Thankfully, Northern Ireland’s own The Answer are on the right side of the reminiscent...

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The Answer - Tonight [single]
Albert Productions - Released 24 May 2009
Brighton seems to be hammering out the hardcore screamo bands lately. Brides doing a great job smashing out their debut EP and now this brilliant single from The Ghost Of A Thousand comes in all guns blazing. If this is the first taster of what is to come from this newly signed to Epitaph five...
Yawn…. Another Panic At The Disco, Fall Out Boy castaway. “Honesty” is predictable and boring, another simple catchy little diddy that every young emo wannabe punk rock chick that wants to be Avril Lavigne will love and scream over. This will find its way into the charts no worries along with that... A fast pace and abusive debut EP from Brighton boys ‘Brides’. This is an attractive debut EP, they make use of the growing breed of UK kids kicking up a stink in the post-hardcore scene and actually doing a half decent job. Brides would be one of those bands you see supporting and absolutely...

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Brides - Ocular.Unveil [Ep]
Visible Noise
Back in the days when Mastodon were a mere spec in the vast world of heavy rock/metal, they were described as "The next Metallica". The hype built around Mastodon (mainly from your ever bumming Kerrang magazine) had them parading amongst the rock legends. In their own right Mastodon have an...

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Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Album]
Warner Bros. Records

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With two-thirds of the members of Mi Ami coming from Dischord noise-rockers Black Eyes, I was expecting out-and-out abrasive noise from their new band. But this is something quite different. The two ex-Black Eyes players, guitarist/vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick and bassist Jacob Long, are joined...

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Mi Ami - Watersports [Album]
Quarterstick Records
The lead ‘single’ from Iggy’s new, and arguably experimental, solo record ‘Préliminaires’ is to be the jazztastic ‘King Of The Dogs’. The album was influenced by the novel ‘The Possibility of an Island’ by French author Michel Houellebecq; my review of it can be found at...

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Iggy Pop - King Of The Dogs [Single]
EMI / Astralwerks

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 How to you like your pop music? Over-easy? Full of dancing naked girls? Folk who can't sing but look good in pants? How about whiny miserable blokes in tweed? Hmmm... it's hard to pin down isn't it, but here's one for you to contemplate how would like your pop to be about stalking and sexing and...
Fat Cat Records have this unearthly knack of coming north of the border and finding the golden nuggets in amongst all the silt and muck it's a trait that has giving us the wrenched emotion of Frightened Rabbit and the sonic eloquence of The Twilight Sad. On their most recent fact finding mission...

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We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (Album)
Fat Cat Records - Out 15th June 2009
As you may have gathered from reading my choice of bands that I’ve reviewed so far for this site, I’m a guy that loves his rock and metal! So when I received this album and the first words I read on the back were ‘Mosh and Roll’ the grin on my face was one of "this is going to be pure, raw... The link between sex and death is certainly not a new one, and vastly more intelligent men than I have far more to offer on the subject than I do, but neither Sigmund Freud nor the French social theorist Michel Foucault discussed the link in regards to London’s self proclaimed “Shriekrockers”,...

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Kasms - Spayed [Album]
Trouble Records
My relationship with Jeffrey Lewis has recently been on the rocks. Snippets I heard from his new album did not fill me with hope, and I decided that this gig would be the make or break. I was willing to put in the effort and come to this gig, to try and recapture all those happy years we shared,... Now DJ Ironik, I want to make myself very clear here: If, after settling on some new original material for a track, you question, “What does this really need to make it a masterpiece?” and the answer you can come up with (after deciding that better lyrics, a decent original hook, and a heavier... Last year saw the release of William’s debut album Self in Fiction, which received largely positive reviews. This year they make the rather strange, almost backward move of releasing a mini album, Slightly Delighted, but hey, there are no rules on this kind of thing and their fans will be tickled...
People may not think of Trail of Dead as an obvious ‘singles band’, but they have produced anthemic moments on albums to date. Songs such as “The Rest Will Follow” and “Let it Dive” were fist-pumpers of the grandest scale (a scale the band certainly like to work on), and their latest album The... When Lacuna Coil are mentioned, most people tend to remember one name, Christina Scabbia. Is it unfair that she is the most talked about member of the Italian 6-piece? Probably. Would they have the same amount of success if Miss Scabbia wasn’t present? Defiantly not. She posses the vocal talent... At first, I don’t really understand the point behind the somewhat saddening, slightly depressing, and definitely repulsive family snap on the front of Delta Spirit’s latest single, People C’mon, until I realise this is just what the 5 guys from San Diego do for their album...
Well, I really couldn’t pick this one. I’ve mulled, I’ve considered, I’ve reflected, and yet I still can’t decide exactly how I feel about the Easy Star All-Stars. Although, I guess I don’t have to be 100% conclusive, so here is where I stand after the Easy Star All-Stars’ set at London’s Koko on... Alfa Matrix, a record label from Belgium had been in existence since 2001. Their goal is to become “a trademark for innovative electronic music, open to various styles including power EBM, dark electro, intelligent industrial, synth pop, electronica, trip hop, drum n’ bass….” Belgium has always... With new musical genres springing from others every day of the week, Kuduro may well have passed you by. The legendary and recently defunct MTV2 120 Minutes show first brought it to my attention with Lisbon’s Buraka Som Sistema. Angolan born, the foursome of Lil' John, Riot, Conductor and Kalaf...





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