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It’s been a long time waiting for Metric fans to get their hands on new material from the band. Sure their last release was only in 2007, but Grow up and Blow Away was actually a delayed release for what should have been their debut album. So as 2005 saw their most recent release of new tracks...

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Metric - Fantasies [Album]
Last Gang Records
Schwarzblut are a Dutch group that have released their debut EP on Alfa-Matrix Records, the Belgium based label that is home to all things dark, noisy, shouty and electronic. The press releases describe Schwarzblut as a “blend of romantic melancholic Weimar poetry with danceable dark electronic... Sebastian R Komor is the Kommando, and here we are introduced to one of his side projects Komor Kommando. It is a 7 track EP which takes the listener into Hard Dance territory with a little side excursion into very dirty Breakbeat. Komor has a growing list of production credits to his name,...
If you look at the band website for 23RainyDays, you will see the Washington DC four-piece have been playing and recording for five years now. The site is glossy, colourful and quite substantial in terms of content. The music of 23RainyDays is equally glossy but lacking of any colour or substance.... From a psychedelic Garden of Eden to romantic summer nights, and from Clint Eastwood westerns to creepy Christmas eves, Spain Colored Orange’s first album Sneaky like a Villain takes you on a colourful journey through imaginary landscapes, consequently giving new life to 1920’s miracle, the radio... As purveyors of their very own sound (‘Shriekbeat’ in their own words), vernal London four-piece Kasms arrive with some goods that need delivering but “Male Bonding” only makes it as far as the end of your street and not quite ‘right up it’. Siouxsie Soux comparisons are inevitable for singer...

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Kasms - Male Bonding [Single]
Trouble Records
Secrets never last. Especially when disguised as three sharply dressed women, with soulful, warm and emotional voices who bring you songs that sound like a swinging summer in the sixties while spreading around the style, fashion and mood of the romantic nights at the dancehall of the innocent... Though officially a secret, Canadian residents Great Bloomers are North-America’s next step necessary to rule the world - by spoiling the music scene with average stereotyped Americana songs. Mid-tempo piano based songs about everyday life, with Lynyrd Skynyrd inspired licks and sung by an... Mr Bones & The Dreamers are a collective I have been aware of for some time now and being a Birmingham based musician myself I must first congratulate Mr Bones for going so far against the grain. Around 90% of bands from the midlands consist of either vapid indie poseurs or trad-metal troglodytes....
I know what you’re thinking: oh, the audacity. Any blatant reference to the classical prodigy is a potential boomerang, thus it’s natural to infer that any band having the galls to do so is either way-in-over-their-heads deranged or has members who bear iron spines. So commences the trial of... If Billy Joel, Tom Waits and Rufus Wainwright were to concoct some kind of genome assisted love child.... well lets not beat around the bush, that baby would be one ugly fucker. However if said progeny were to grow into their parents profession the resulting sound would very closely resemble that... Considering the sheer length of Iggy Pop’s career in the music without a fall from grace, still rightfully earning the respect of even the most arrogant of modern mockstars, the title of his new long player ‘Préliminaires’ ironically translates as ‘Foreplay’. After having spent almost 50 years at...

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Iggy Pop - Préliminaires [Album]
EMI / Astralwerks

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The latest in a seemingly endless line of bands suffering identity crisis, New York’s BM Linx’s second album Black Entertainment proves that the city certainly isn’t perfect and doesn’t always deliver the goods. Providing the soundtrack to some of the worst lyrics I have heard outside of the UK...

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BM Linx - Black Entertainment [album]
Craze Factory Entertainment
My first experience of St Vincent (alias of ex Polyphonic Spree member and Sufjan Stevens cohort Annie Clark) came early last year when I caught her supporting The National at the Irish Club in Birmingham. It was a striking performance which managed to combine the brittle acoustic anti-folk of her... What is surprising about the moment you first hear White Light Parade is how developed and full their sound is already, you really could imagine them filling stadiums already. Wake Up is the debut single from the Leeds (and Bradford) four-piece and the first track from their forthcoming album House...
“People have sex to my songs,” recounts a flu-stricken, but very charming Rachael Yamagata at her 2-hour concert on Wednesday, April 15th at The Esplanade theatre, Singapore. Despite being slightly under the weather from her 25-hour flight, she radiates with a warm glow and an affectionate slab of...

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Rachael Yamagata Live @ The Esplanade, Singapore
Of cats, bears, ghosts and sex
The Swedish house producer Kleerup, shot to fame with his release feat Robyn – With Every Heartbeat, and probably deservedly so. That record was a proper dance-pop gem. Strong production qualities mixed with a cutting and brooding vocal performance meant that it got a mass of radio and club play.... 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...





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