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Nosound’s latest release “A Sense Of Loss” is an interesting effort. After listening to the album over and over again it has been difficult to put my finger on what the point of the album really is. It’s easy to hear the band’s influences of No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and maybe even a little Pink... So, for my first review, I'm going to be analyzing a new release that doesn't hit shops for another 2 weeks or so! I'm talking about the new Manchester Orchestra record, which is indie-rock from Georgia. The Manchester Orchestra members hit the studio shortly after the success of their... Invisible System offers an eclectic fusion of trance, dub, and world dance music with “Punt.” “Punt” is almost autobiographical of musician Dan Harper. Styles picked up from his days of electronica, on through his humanitarian work in Ethiopia, can all be heard on “Punt.” As varied in...

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Invisible System - Punt [Album]
Harper Diabate Records
The Pineapple Thief is a band borne from the mind, heart and soul of Bruce Soord, coming about after the demise of his former band Vulgar Unicorn in 1999. Ten years later and The Pineapple Thief have released a ten year best of collection entitled "3000 Days." Any band that has survived for ten... It’s not often, well never up until now actually, that I will review a support band at the expense of the main act. In this case though, the support band are so good that they deserve all the plaudits, especially when they support a band that has received more of their own than they deserve. Of...

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The Joy Formidable [Live] @ Manchester Academy
Friday 16th October 2009

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 I have got to give We Are Fiction credit where credit is due to start off with; deciding to leave Rising Records and wanting to release this EP themselves is an interesting twist and I have to applaud that! Screamo as the ‘kids’ tend to call it is a combination of emotional lyrics (similar to...
Fortunately I had the pleasure of seeing This City perform live before having actually listened to their music, and live, they were amazing. They are one of those bands that will always have the difficult task of transcending the somewhat spellbinding aura, essentially the charm that they display... I just listened to “Black River Killer” - the new 7-track EP from Blitzen Trapper. A six-piece Folk Rock band from Portland, OR. The sound is organic, with mostly acoustic instruments, except for the variety of keyboards which keep this from sounding too much like Folk music. These are well-written... If there is one electronic artist around killing the dirty electro scene with their insanely well produced, compressed to oblivion bass kicks it is Boys Noize. The production on their works is phenomenal, and it makes us music producers very jealous. The obvious point to make out is that insane...

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Boys Noize - Power [Album]
Boys Noize Records
The album title itself, "Departures," is drawn from John Garrison's personal experience as he leaves the musical comfort zone of London, and sets off on a personal journey to the big New York City. As with any artist who would venture out to a strange land to write and record an album, a lot of... Screwloose are a band from my neck of the woods in Stoke and in a town in which bands seem to fall into four camps of: pop-punk, classic rock, deathcore and Gothic rock these actually try to be different from this norm with their style more being a mixture of Reuben influence along with Biffy... We’ve all been there - you look forward all week to Saturday’s wife-swapping session at Derek and June’s house in Slough, then a mere hour into the big night you are crying onto your latex briefs as Derek picks out your car keys. So this is what Bjork was singing about when she sang “This...
The Housemartins were a band set in the 80’s. You may have heard of them but if you can’t quite place the band, as I couldn’t, then all is needed is a quick listen, and you will remember them instantly. If it isn’t the song “Happy Hour” that jogs your memory then it will definitely be lead singer... A lot of people (myself included) may wonder just what exactly ‘A-FREE-KA’ is (no its not made up). It is actually an Egyptian word meaning Spirit, described as knowing no limits or boundaries according to Shafiq’s website. Shafiq has taken this as something similar to well advised words so it...

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Shafiq - En' A Free Ka [Album]
Rapster Records
“Dusk Til Dawn” is the new album from Breakestra; an eight-piece outfit from Los Angeles, CA, who play some serious old school Funk music. To get a handle on their sound we have to go back past The Red Hot Chili Peppers, past Prince, past Rick James, all the way back to the P-Funk sound of George...
After nearly a year or so in the making; Lynhurst have finally given us their latest album "Field Day" - taking their name from a childhood hangout. The three musical siblings have created a blissful and tranquil album that shows off some impressive song writing skills on their part. Although the...

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Lynhurst - Field Day [Album]
Anatomic Records

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 RazorBladeKisses are in a musical world of their own. Their latest release, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Scar" seems to be a shinning example of their dark and twisted musical ideas that can't help but lure the listener in further. The haunting and eerie sound of lead vocalists Layla and Azadeh seem... Whilst The Silent Years second album, “The Globe”, was released in the US last year, its UK release had to wait until today, which makes the timing of the release of this single, taken from their “Let Go” EP which was released back in July, feel a little odd to us Brits. But then I don’t set their...
My favourite Rifles story - not the one about the dippers making hay every night on their last tour - dates back to July 2006. On the strength of 'Repeated Offender' - which was the feel-good indie hit of that month - me and a few mates went down to the Cockpit to check out whether the London... For her second album under the Taken by Trees moniker, Swedish chanteuse Victoria Bergsman, accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Andreas Söderström, relocated to Pakistan. Here they worked with local musicians and singers to record “East of Eden.” Suspicions of this being another Western musician... A Fire Inside a.k.a: AFI, is having way too much fun making records. How else could one explain their tenacity and longevity? Not many bands make it past their first few records. AFI has put those bands to shame with their eighth full-length studio release in 18 years, "Crash Love." Though...

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AFI - Crash Love [Album]
DGC Records
Big Dada have recently become my favourite record label, releasing some of the most interesting and ground-breaking hip-hop of recent times. While not all of it is going to be the most palatable music in the world, the respect I have for both the label and the artists on the label grows with each... “We’re gonna melt your faces off, so, uh, don’t be afraid to fucking thrash.” Local opening act Sunshine For Orphans set the tone of the evening with these words. An evening of Stoner rock, heavy metal guitar riffs, and burly men (and one very burly Laura Pleasants). Milton Burly. Men with huge... Hmmmm. Can I take this all seriously. I know that Saltatio Mortis probably do, so I should probably do the same. Saltatio Mortis are what they call a medieval metal band. They are from Germany and "Wer Wind Saet" is their ninth album, which says something for the genre. Saltatio Mortis sing in...
The Scottish duo of Kevan Whitley and Gavin Clark set and made a name for themselves as far back as 2005, armed with a unique style of music probably best described as a kind of hybrid Guitar based Electronic music and these guys are getting some great ideas out into the world. Their latest...

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Keser - Robo_Ghost [Album]
Alex Tronic Records

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 Teenage, WestCountry, GallagherClonesRock. From Cheltenham and still at school, most of The Trends cherubic mates on Facebook look like they still religiously Sky+ Ben 10. All credit to the quartet though for getting off their arses and forming a band, although I imagine the alternative in their... Now I have to admit, the very concept of 'chill-out' music does nothing for me. I'm all for chilled out music, but when it's marketed as such it invariably turns out to be bland, repetitive nonsense. However last night I had a rather heavy one which resulted in a large period of memory loss and...
The inherit problem with music journalism is that one tends to hear so much music, and that so much of it these days tends to be so similar. That's not to say Mirrorkicks are any more or less guilty than any of the other bands I've reviewed in the last week. It just so happens that this afternoon...

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Mirrorkicks - Turning Up [Single]
Fruit Pie Records

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 By naming themselves after an Arthur Russell song, this South London quintet promise exquisite art-disco, aimed as much at the head as at the feet. On this outing, their second single, they are getting there but don’t quite hit those heights. 'I Am The Sound' is a likeable blend of the ‘pops’ of... Picture the scene way back in 2001 where a song called ‘Sonne’ featuring a bunch of men dressed as miners being a part of a twisted Snow White tale was what the video depicted. For many people this was their first experience of the madness that is Rammstein (myself included) and the idea of how a...
Swedish five piece Gasoline Queen have been around since 2004, earning a reputation for their sweaty, energetic and raw live shows. With names such as Dee “Fck” Fearless (lead vocals), Mart Wildheart (lead guitar) or Mad Dog (bass), you can probably guess what Gasoline Queen sound like. If not,... Do you miss Disco? Well, Ok. Me neither, but if you ever find yourself feeling nostalgic or think a disco vibe might be good for your party for a bit, this is a hand-picked, well-mixed collection from a few hot DJs from the London scene. I am from America and had never heard of Horse Meat Disco... GraVil is a two-piece metal act, comprising of vocalist Gra and multi-instrumentalist Vil. "The Age Of Corruption" is the second EP from the duo and features five tracks of black / death edged heavy metal. The production on "The Age Of Corruption" is pretty good, with the vocals coming through...

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GraVil - The Age Of Corruption [EP]
Bitter To The Core Records
Japanese Voyeurs are sick puppies, fact. Over the course of their three track EP “Sicking And Creaming”, one get's the distinct impression that four individual's raised on a harsh diet of Pot, Electric Wizard and Black Flag are jamming away, while a neurotic and clearly ill young woman screams,... The Number Twelve Looks Like You, now there is an interesting band. Meshing so many different facets of sound and creating a smorgasbord of genres, The Number Twelve Looks Like You know how to make interesting music. For some reason, from listening to their records, I thought that The Number... Bournemouth Metal lads At Sunrise grace us with their debut mini-album, "Sapphires," which features 7 tracks of metal and hardcore stylings with a few chilled out moments thrown in there for good measure. I would place the sound quite simply as a more modern, technical version of what the Lost...
Before we go any further I have to tell you that we are dealing here with a band who actually rhyme 'high' with 'sky' in one of their songs. Still reading? Well, okay then. B lackfield are primarily Stephen Wilson and Aviv Geffen, who happen to be two of the most complete charisma voids I've ever... ‘Alexander' is the second single to be released from Charlotte Hatherley's marvelous third album "New Worlds." Whilst it may be considered quite an accessible, commercial, radio friendly track it is not really that indicative of what else is on offer within "New Worlds." However as an aperitif to...

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Charlotte Hatherley-Alexander (Single)
Little Sister Records
I listened today to a couple of singles from The Xcerts; a Scottish 3-piece “distorted Pop” band. cThe songs come from their LP “In the Cold Wind We Smile,” which was released in March of 2009. The two-song EP, available from Amazon, is a Jeckyl and Hyde affair. The first track,...
Has anyone tried to tell The Cave Singers the Seventies are over? No? Well done, keep it that way ´cause I’m quite enjoying this forty minutes of time travelling. “Welcome Joy” is a warm, relaxing album to enjoy with your favourite bourbon in an old fashioned bath tub on a winter night. A... You need to listen to “Fort Orange.” First, because it proves my point that hardcore doesn’t need to be only senseless screaming, second because I challenge anyone to pack such an amount of energy in just under 23 minutes! After The Fall put together a succession of two minutes explosive tracks,... Remedy is a Canadian three piece from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They’ve been around a while and have built a solid following in their local grass-roots circuit, thanks to their live show reputation and their participation in numerous charity events. Original singer guitarist Steve Harley and bassist...

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Remedy - Paleofidelity [Album]
Self Released
Mangled Post-Hardcore By Irish Whiz Kids There's something damning about Irish post hardcore mob Bats that one struggles to nail down. They possess the technical chops and the style to be quite the heavyweight in the hardcore scene; crafting what can be best described as At The Drive In locked in... Tallahassee bred pop-punk rockers Mayday Parade are at it again. Their latest release, "Anywhere But Here," is their second full-length album in three years. Currently, Mayday Parade is busy playing a set in the stateside AP Fall Ball Tour. "Anywhere But Here" features a catchy bunch of pop... Two years away from debut album "Roll Away" and everything has changed for Davy Knowles. His rhythm section Back Door Slam friendly parted ways with the guitarist and was subsequently replaced by a new rhythm section and they, in return, significantly influenced the sound of "Coming Up For Air,"...





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