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For the first 15 seconds 'Before The Walls Came Down', the title track on Computerclub’s debut album, sounds exactly like a John Barry 60s spy movie score. For the next two minutes and thirty four seconds it sounds exactly like a long-lost Echo & the Bunnymen B-side. No, really. EXACTLY. Younger... For the very exclusive bunch of enthusiasts who always wondered what life would be like if Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell were born out of the same egg, there’s hope on the horizon. Of course it is a bit of a cliché to come up with old acts to describe a new one, but there is something about Rachael... For a band who – because of the melodic music, the personal lyrics and the voice of singer Jacob de Greeuw – is often compared to the likes of John Lennon, Crowded House and R.E.M. and is as popular as well in Holland, three albums in twelve years isn't much of a catalogue. And so it was time to...
So the guitars start roaring and the drums are bashed and Computer Club are on the stereo. It is obvious that they have had an upbringing of Interpol, Joy Division and (I hate to say it) The Pigeon Detectives. This is a mainstream indie song, no doubt. It’s very obvious, the melody and lyrics come... First impressions are a great starting point and Namaste do a great job with their presentation. The Single comes in a little brown paper bag with a sort of stamp print logo on the front, stuck together with a cheeky little Namaste sticker advertising their site and myspace. This is pretty...

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Namaste - Expired [Single]
Crater 8 Records
If Hadouken where American then i suspect this is exactly how they would sound. Cue the basic drum beat, catchy chorus and simple use of synths. Taken from their self titled debut album described as "a collection of sounds and lyrics reflecting the energy of our moment". Indeed this is correct,...
Every now and again its nice to listen to something you normally wouldn't. Acoustic Folk? No thankyou he would normally say. Its really refreshing to open your ears to something different from the typical genres people attach themselfs too. Being an open minded individual myself when it comes to...

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Lau - Arc Light [Album]
Navigator Records
Captain Beefheart’s impact on the music world is incalculable (and not just because of his utterly superb choice of name). While general society has squashed him down for midnight meanders and those evenings when the crazy needs to get released, the pioneers of music are still very much coloured... Being one of the most alternative rappers in the business today that exists not on the Def Jux label MF Doom is normally a refreshing breath of fresh air from the usual three ‘core’ elements of hip-hop: guns, girls and drugs. As the masked alter ego combined with Viktor Vaughn (a play on the first...
Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry have unleashed a mild creature of an album by the name of Face Control. The second attempt at musical diversity for Boeckner (from his two other projects: Wolf Parade and Atlas Stragetic) sees him working once again with his wife, Perry, in their indie-electro band,... London Based five piece deserve merit for two things ; first for creating an extremely impressive debut single that requires the repeat button to be pressed constantly. Secondly for creating their own sub-genre, titled 'Dirty folk'. What a band needs to do to be dubbed 'dirty folk' is never... Planet Mu have been releasing a lot of albums over the last year. A testament to Planet Mu’s massive artist roster, coupled with the increasing usability and availability of music production software. Shitmat's (otherwise known as Henry Collins) new album "One Foot in the Rave", is the Brighton...
Having released two mixed-bag albums under his own name, Brooklyn’s Luke Temple has adopted the moniker Here we go Magic to release his third album of the same name, and coincidence or not, the new name has arrived alongside his finest work to date. Album opener “Only Pieces” sets the scene... Mrs Vee - Manifesto – Audvee05 - is a compilation album that is put together by the community based website Mrs Vee. The compilations are released under the creative commons licence, which is quite refreshing, unfortunately the music on them isn’t! A glance at the Mrs Vee website lets us know... There is no hiding the fact that Metro Station are a manufactured American Pop band, controlled by Sony, who expertly market them as the next big thing. A glance at Metro Station’s Myspace music player (metro station (cd out now) on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads)...
Last week was a horrendous week, crazily busy, manic even, but come Thursday it was all to get better, infinitely better. This was because today was the day the guys, or should I say Farmers, down at AudioFarm brought Evil Nine to Manchester or more precisely to Moho Live. Many of you will probably...

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Evil Nine LIVE at AudioFarm
A blissful night of electronic mayhem

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 When a reviewer that traditionally has no real love for a genre of music finds themselves repeatedly listening to something sent to them you know you have produced a quality record. This can be said for Worcester Based hardcore punk band Fights and Fires with their long awaited debut E.P/ Mini... It was very clear from the off that this evening was going to be good, crowds queuing around the venue at opening time is always a good sign that there is going to be a decent band on. And Gojira were deemed to be that band. To start the evening Pilgrimz treat the audience to their brand of metal,...
London is a strange city. There are so many things always going on, people constantly in a rush to get somewhere, tapping away on their blackberries and working on the train, boys wanting to be rock stars and girls wanting to be Kate Moss (or Daisy Lowe or Brody Dahl…) in light of this, there are... Now this here single ain’t half bad. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band ring in the release of their fourth studio album, with a preview single featuring two impressive tracks, ‘Mama’s Fried Potatoes’ and ‘Can’t Pay The Bill’, from their appropriately named album, The Whole Fam Damnily. ‘Mama’s... Akoustik Anarkhy (Manchester club night and label) has always ploughed its own highly idiosyncratic and avowedly DIY-aesthetic furrow. Their latest signing its a buffalo (look: no apostrophe! all in lower case!) share some of their label’s shambolic wilfulness and failings-are-our-strengths...
I annoyingly arrived waaaay too early for this show. OK well, for any other show it was just normal arrival time but in this case it was waaaaay too early as it was just early enough to encounter the band directly before the populist screamo five piece I was planning to review. This outstandingly...

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Deaf Havana @ Bar Islington Academy - 16th March 2009
Including interview with front man Ryan Mellar!
Manchester City fans in particular will no doubt approach The B of the Bang with trepidation, as they share a name with a rather gaudy looking sculpture that sits rusting outside their stadium, ready to impale a hapless passer-by with its rather large precarious spikes. The sculpture’s future... First of all my apologies to Le Reno Amps for my disgraceful delay in getting this review up and running but now I'm here and prepared let's get the show on the road. 'Tear It Open' is Le Reno Amps second long-player and really sharpens their particular brand of country / funk / rock / pop / reggae...

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Le Reno Amps - Tear It Open (Album)
Drift Records - Out Now
The animals may well have gone in two by two, but currently female singer-songwriters seem to be arriving en-mass. 18 year old Alessi Laurent-Marke from West London is the latest in a steady stream of such songbirds, poached from the pages of Myspace. Her debut album, the twee-as-fook entitled...

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Alessi's Ark - Over The Hill [Single]
Virgin/ EMI Records
Croydon indie-poppers The Tunics (surely there are no more nouns left to plunder?) are quite aptly named seeing as the tune from ‘Shine On’ has been nicked from Britpop hits of the 90’s, and welded to the back-end of more recent Britpop such as The Arctic Monkeys, The Razorlight and The...

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The Tunics - Shine On [Single]
Manta Ray Music
The great debate over whether or not rock music has lost its originality, its innovators confined to history, is an oft debated one, and will be ‘til the prodigal cows return home to feast on the fattened son. What is not so widely discussed is just how unoriginal band names have always been, but...
While numerous musicians have been inspired by the combination of mainstream song and avant-garde noise to be found in the music of MBV, JAMC and Sonic Youth (i.e. Smashing Pumpkins, Wavves and Nirvana, respectively and famously), I cannot recall many, if any, who have been inspired to strip away... I had absolutely no idea what to expect from Michael Zapruder, a quick background check didn't really throw up much information to go on and to be honest I was just relying on the fact that the artwork looked quite funky and colourful. It gave me hope that this was going to be something good, new,... It seems that a robot, not unlike the one in Hitchhiker’s Guide which calculates the meaning of life, has been programmed to process dualities of human emotion – such as hope and despair – and replicate it as music. Well, now we have the equation: Big, pounding drums + even bigger,...
As we pretty much all know by now, Bon Iver’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago was written in a remote log cabin in northern Wisconsin, where singer and songwriter Justin Vernon hibernated for three winter months following the break-up of a relationship. The heartbreak, guilt and ultimate regret... In many ways, Not Without a Fight could be considered as New Found Glory’s best album to date. After being in the business now for a decade, the guys are just as energetic as ever and this is a fast and short, punchy album (longest song being 3 minutes and 44 second). Front man Jordan Pundik’s... Let me be straight with you here – prior to requesting this review, I had never listened to or even come into contact with Astral Weeks. Chances are that, if you’d mentioned it to me in the past, I’d have thought you were talking about a West Indian cricketer from the 1940s. I hope that this fact...
So where to start with Flo Rida? If you're a regular on this site rather than an adventurous-Googling-wander (a digital, less brave but warmer Captain Scott of some sort) then I think that I can get away with assuming that you're not such a big fan of Flo's. Me neither really, but it's sometimes... One of the latest female fronted bands to gain a mainstream following - In This moment return with their second album ‘The Dream’ and at first listen you may be forgiven for thinking, given their timing, that’s it’s a return to bands such as Evanescense and heaven forbid, Paramore! Publicity... What is there to be said? Quarantine Days is a great album with plenty of humorous quips, songs that flow well, catchy choruses and is light hearted enough to be enjoyed at any time – but I just don’t LOVE it. The Epidemic are essentially a punk band, but I will give them credit for varying their...
As a rule, I hate punk. However, for the purpose of this I’m going to rip up the rulebook (look at me, I’m the burning monk, Sir Walter Raleigh, Che Guevara and Dale Winton all rolled into one neat rebellious package). I say this because within about one minute of listening to a band for the first...

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Defeater - Travels [Album]
Topshelf Records
I think one easy way of telling if it’s a good album, is if I would actually choose to put it on after I’m finished reviewing it. And I would DEFINITELY choose to listen to Youth Group's The Night Is Ours again and again. Youth Group’s fourth release was let loose in their native Australia in...

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Youth Group - The Night Is Ours [album]
Ivy League - US Release: 7 April 2009

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 Hollow Crown is the third release from Brighton boys, Architects, being put out by Century Media for which this is their second Architects release following Ruin back in 2007. Architects have had a very smooth transition through albums, never sticking to the same genre set but still staying true to...
The greatest thing about the atmosphere tonight is that everyone’s out for a good time at the so-called “End of Term gig”. The crowd is bursting with energy and desperate to end the term in style, this means getting drunk and enjoying some really great bands. Four Year Strong influenced, Phatboy...

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Phatboy - Live at The Kasbah, Coventry 12.12.08
Plus: The 27 Club, Kyoto Drive

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 Now there's this misconception that the entire nation of Scotland is full of whinging moaner's and though I can see why this label has been placed upon us it is simply an unfair stigma to attach to us as despite what the surface may show of Aidan Moffat - dulcet tones, hobo-chic look, and seemingly... It is undeniable that experimental electronic music is currently on the rise at an exponential rate. Perhaps the scale is best measured by simply taking a look at the charts, paying attention to music used for media, scene kids’ shirts in the coolest bars in town, the sheer amount or new music of...
Now, imagine Bjork has invented some kind of mind-transference device. Not too long a stretch of the imagination, I'm sure you'll agree. Imagine also that this device can transpose your mind into anyone one else's throughout history. What I'm getting at, you see, is that Bjork, nutty professor... Here in Western Europe we have a myriad of musical genres, sub-genres and niche bands that refuse to fit into any genre at all. What about the rest of the world? That’s where the hideously generic label of world music comes in. Anything unfamiliar, something us Brits just can’t quite get our head...

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Tunng and Tinariwen [Live] @ Manchester Academy
Manchester, 20th March 2009

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 I got some seriously odd looks from the people around me on the train today because I absolutely could not sit still listening to the opening bars of Shinedown’s third single ‘The Sound of Madness’, from their third album of the same name. The follow up to lead single ‘Devour’ and subsequent...





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