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I had never heard of this house music collective from England until I got this CD, so I was interested to know what type of music was going to be thrown my way. Firstly I took a look at the BACKBEAT CANDY website for some much needed info. It turns out that this collective comprises of Guildhall... Bpitch the German record label was set up in 2001 by Ellen Allien with the “function of being a platform for upcoming artists”. Since its creation Bpitch has established itself as a leader in the fast evolving tech-house sound. Kiki heralds from Finland and is one of the growing number of highly...

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Kiki - Kaiku
BPitch Control
Dieter Schöön is almost a genius with the sounds he creates. It's impressively unpredictable, almost as if he is making it to aggravate you and La Blaza is an incredibly difficult album to describe. Having never heard of the Scandinavian one-man band before and not being particularly liking...

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Dieter Schöön - La Blaza [Album]
Headspin Recordings
‘Broken Britain’, Credit Crunch and the myriad of Britain since 2002, it’s talked about all the time with Politicians always stating THEIR case. To quote Gregory House. ‘Everybody Lies’. Now you’re probably thinking why is a review about the new Gallows album using house-ism and political jargon? ...

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Gallows - Grey Britain [Album]
Warner Brothers

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 There are albums out there with heavy experimentation machinery that lacks a lubricating coat of scintillating lyricism and the result often falls short of a meek, polished finish e.g. *cough* Handsome Furs *cough* Face Control *cough*. It is without a doubt that the former Polyphonic Spree member... Incredibly hyped by pop-friendly musos, adored by consumers and probably hated by Jack Johnson for perhaps drawing a little TOO MUCH influence from Old Panpipe Voice himself, Make It Mine is the latest of a string of successful releases from floppy haired Jason Mraz. In many ways, he is your...
They said to be influenced by French chansonniers. But on the other hand, according to their biography they also have experimented with industrial goth-core and power ballads before they moved to ‘highly pleasing, short, acoustic songs about science and love’. It’s the last description, acoustic... The Takeover UK have produced an interesting album with ‘Running with the Wasters’. The album opens with ‘The Lonely Ones’ which is an immediate disappointment. The Takeover UK sound like all the bad bits of the indie obsessed 90’s . The track is a full blown 90’s nostalgia driven love-in with... When Dusty Springfield died in 1998, she left a legacy behind that will last forever. From bringing Motown to the British public in the 1960s to producing an impressive opus of work herself with songs including Son of a Preacher Man and You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me , with a career that...

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Just Dusty- Dusty Springfield [DVD]
Odeon Entertainment

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150 years after the publication of “The Origin of Species” the debate about Darwinism versus creationism, unbelievably, seems to be raging stronger than ever. Why can’t people simply accept we are related to apes? The slightly disturbing album cover (applying human features to an oil painting of an...

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Ape School – Ape School [Album]
Counter Records
In a recent NME issue, Lissy Trullie described herself as being “shy”. Now contrast this with the picture of her on the adjacent page. The leather jacket, the business like stare in her eyes, the menacing twist of the upper lip, whilst all the while looking oh so effortlessly cool, the whole “shy”... Fridge-magnet poetry name – check. Seven-inch white vinyl single release – check. Cutesy illustration of a rabbit in a red scarf on the sleeve – check. Following this none-too-subtle trail of clues you can properly work out what the music sounds like. Michigan-based Empire! Empire! (I Was A...
April 21 saw the release of Booker T’s first solo album in decades. The former Stax-organist was, after performing with the MG’s and collaborating with Jolie Holland on ‘What a Wonderful World’, in the perfect mood for renewing his relationship with his younger days, resulting in the instrumental... There doesn't seem to be anything particularly straightforward about Everything Everything's sound. It's all a little off-centre, a bit obscure, with edges and angles all flying into the mix when least expected. Despite all this, there is this grating annoyance with 'Photoshop Handsome'; it has...

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Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome (Single)
Another Music = Another Kitchen - Out Now
'Until The Earth Begins To Part' is quite an apt title for the first offering by Broken Records on 4AD. There is something undeniably earthly, and rustic about their sound and 'Until The Earth Begins To Part' is the finest example to date. Beginning with a drunken pub piano plod and the sound of...
The lively city of Fort Worth, Texas, has a musical secret it could keep under wraps for only so long. Virgin Records have stepped in and are set to help share the talents of Green River Ordinance with the wider world, via the medium of debut album ‘Out of My Hands’. Since their formation... Having re-released their debut EP Bury the Seasons just this week, it’s perhaps a little odd to be reviewing the follow up mini album No Fun Intended effectively three months late but that’s where we are, and sadly this band have gone unnoticed for too long so better late than never. Opener “Bet... ‘Trick of the Light’ is taken from The Maybes? debut album Promise and their name sets alarm bells ringing from the off. Firstly modern ‘The’ bands usually sound as original as their name suggests, and secondly bands who insist on adding punctuation marks in their title are questionable (no pun...
LA trio Skeleteen continue the welcome resurgence of shoegaze with the rerelease of their debut EP Bury the Seasons. Fusing the revitalised genre with grunge and noise rock is certainly not a new thing, Sonic Youth have been doing it for years and The Smashing Pumpkins brought it as close to the... South African foursome The Dirty Skirts released this double A-side back in January so is this case of being well worth the wait? - hardly. They have received “huge” success in their native homeland, and no doubt they could do quite well elsewhere too, but as we all should know by now – money does... I must profess that before I received The Bluetones re-released 1996 Number 1 'Expecting To Fly' album through the post I didn't know a great deal about them. I'd always assumed they were one of the fringe indie bands, makeweights that came to an already overcrowded table in the mid 90's. However...
It would be lazy of me to write off Crafty Simians debut release as charmless 'lad rock', so I'll dig a little deeper. Indeed, the song is so shallow it makes The Fratellis 'Chelsea Dagger' sound like 'The Carmina Burana' but that is not necessarily a bad thing. If a song has a decent hook,... The Phantom Band attracts the strangest and broadest list of band comparisons: The Beta Band meet British Sea Power anyone?? What about TV On The Radio or Violent Femmes? Or how about Nick Cave meets Neu? Even the musical reference that gets closest to capturing the Scots six-piece best – Captain... My First Tooth hail from Northampton. My first thought on hearing this debut EP was: is that Northampton, Massachusetts or Northampton, England? The band, formed around the core of singer-songwriter Ross Witt and violinist Sophie Galpin, deliver a wistful, warm-hued indie-folk not unlike the...
Again like ‘Blackout’ I was actually debating on writing a review on this album after hearing it, but I must have my say. Now that I listen to the album, actually paying attention as a critic, I can hear that half this album was literally just thrown together, consisting of a few hit singles and a... ‘Never Give Up’ is the sort of record that you immediately decide that you probably dislike, but then as the final note resonates with a (slightly cheesy) classic vibrato one can’t help but to think what a great record it is as you reach for the back skip button for another blast of Transatlantic... Underoath take a more gentle approach to their newest single "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear". The track features some dramatic pitch perfect vocals that are more soothing than Carvonia cough syrup. Spencer Chamberlain absolutely rips the track to shreds with his lyrical harmonics, this guys...
Nashville Pussy are quite frankly the best rock band I have ever seen live. I hadn’t heard anything by them before the gig and I was left stunned. The energy, angst, high-kicks, tormenting screams and harmony was held together perfectly by the rhythm of Jeremy Thompson’s pounding drums. Blaine... If you could ask Bob Dylan one question, what would it be? After Saturday’s gig at the O2, my question for Mr Dylan would have to be “Do you even find this fun anymore Bob?” I had formed my opinion of the gig and decided how this review would look (which I will give in more detail in just a... “I knew it was going to be good, but that was amazing” I think this quote from one raving fan after Jason Mraz’s sold out second London show on his most recent tour sums up the night at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo perfectly. I had seen and heard how well his current run of tours dates had been...
Benjamin Taylor’s ability to blur the line between cheesy generic singer-songwriter material and credible musicianship coupled with his ability to pen a genuinely well written pop song is remarkable. In reference to the said ‘cheesy’ aspect, the artwork of his latest release ‘She’s Gone’ shows him... You can easily make a lazy comparison between Side By Side and Sigur Ros. They both feature the same haunting instrumentalization and sparse vocals are evident in both bands albums. This type of music is not my cup of tea at all, so if I’m honest trying to write an impartial review based on the... The debut EP from Young Guns entitled ‘Mirrors’ hooks me from the opening track. They have a refreshing, yet familiar style to their music. Young Guns have pulled out their effects pedals and cranked the echo effect on their microphones up to 11. The result is a staggering slab of infectious rock...
The latest album by much hyped band Fake Problems really gets going and starts to connect with me by track two, titled ‘The Dream Team’. This is an epic track complete with "woah woah" backing vocals, a breakdown, guitar solo and plenty of plinky-plonking on the piano. It leaves you breathless... Type in Church For Sinners in Google. Yes you guessed it. Biblical and religious references dominate the pages. Expected of course. It does seem ironic however, that a band who are clearly making a genre of music that would piss off our almighty leader, should appear on the same page as a website... Written by Natalie Imbruglia, performed by a man who frequently wears a flat cap; it’s difficult to have positive first impressions about ‘Ben’s Brother’s comeback single ‘Apologise’ but stay with me and maybe we can work through this one together. The main thing that seems striking about...

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Ben’s Brother – Apologise [Single]
Flat Cap Records Ltd.
The eclectic and eccentric Blues-Rock sorceress PJ Harvey has reunited with past collaborator John Parish once more to craft an emotionally charged, brutally powerful album that bellows haunting poetry. In the same fashion as their previous effort (Dance Hall at Louse Point), Harvey and Parish... What a pleasant surprise. 9 times out of 10 when one hears a record by an unknown band the results range from mediocre to unlistenable. Wintermute buck that trend with their wonderful debut album 'Robot Works'. The press release that arrived bolstered to my copy of Robot Sleep claims that...

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Wintermute - Robot Works [Album]
Big Scary Monsters

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 The cover of BLK JKS’s debut Mystery EP shows two African boys running for a train. Quite whether or not this is an intended metaphor for the band’s own journey to this point is unclear, but it serves as an excellent one none-the-less. Forming in 2000 in Johannesburg, the band only made it on to...

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BLK JKS - Mystery [EP]
Secretly Canadian
Hmmm... How should I describe Creepy Crawlers? How about, "Paw Tracks-friendly"? For the uninitiated, Paw Tracks is a record label created by members of Animal Collective that routinely releases, depending on your opinion, either wonderfully-idiosyncratic avant-garde music or disingenuously... Well. Prepare your brain for this one, in fact you may need a sick bag from being mentally and physically abused after listening to Venetian Snares latest technical mastermind of sound waves. 'Filth' is epic, more confusing than chinese writing and features so much musical content that as a music... Sounding like something conjured up in your local Bull's Head, 'FuckBook' has a certain niche charm to it. It plods along with a dirty, gritty sound. The 'garage' sound is hard to get into at first, especially after listening to endless albums that are polished harder than Kate Winslet's oscar....
Now before I begin it should be known that high energy american style pop-punk is hardly what you'd call 'my cup of tea'. So it was with a great deal of trepidation that I sat down to this (beautifully packaged) record. 'Distances' is a split EP release between Philidelphia's 'The Wonder Years' and... The easy going, never-fail-to-impress catchy kings of rock are back with this impressive sixteen track album 'Quick The Word Sharp The Action'. Hundred Reasons always confuse me with an ever changing amount of members. It may just be a distinct lack of attention span but I'm sure there only used... First off the mark I have a suggestion for 'Diffusion Records'. You could really make a little more effort with your Promo CD's. Both the Stormy Corner and Crafty Simian releases I received contained no artwork or information about the band and as such didn't make a terrific first impression....





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