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After two Brit Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and five Grammy nominations, the ex-army officer returns with another song about... well, can you guess? This is yet again a classic cut from the bleeding-edge of the middle-of-the-road. Mr Blunt croons along to a mid-tempo beat (as usual) about how... NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! It’s not often I say this, but this record could actually not be more wrong. If you imagine their opening track: ‘Ready For Love’ which has a post-Queen pop edge that could be, not exactly positively compared to Scissor Sister’s then you’ve got an idea of what they’re going... 'Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear' is the first thing that came to my head when I listened to The Brute Chorus' new single 'She Was Always Cool'. It is The Brute Chorus' third single that is due for release on December 15th 2008 - and according to their Myspace page it is an attempt at a Christmas number...
Volcanoes don't look like your average Indie band in fact they resemble some sort of MOR Metal band and have a Bass player called Boa Internationale (possibly one of the best things about Volcanoes - I like it) so it comes as somewhat of a surprise when you hear the sound Volcanoes distribute to... Gene Shay, co-founder of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, defined folk music by saying, "In the strictest sense, it's music that is rarely written for profit. It's music that has endured and been passed down by oral tradition…it brings a sense of community. It's the people's music." I love that...

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Under One Sky - The Songs EP [EP]
Navigator records

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 This song was released. I hated it. It went a little like this: Listen # 1: WTF??? What is this crap? Who produced it? What on earth does Rihanna think she’s doing getting associated with this? Bugger me, it’s that stupid tune off the internet!!! Listen # 2: Seriously,...
It’s a shame that the Les Gars EP starts of with the song it does. Track one, ‘Cut it out’, is a sleaze rock snarly middle of the road number that misleadingly worries you into thinking the remainder of the five track EP will consist of the same stuff. But, as I said, that would be a misleading...

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Les Gars - La Physique [EP]
Self Released
This was make or break for me, as a Finch fan seeing them play live for the 3rd time I had it in my head that this was their final chance to woo me. The reason being that the two previous times they never played 'Letters to you' and that was the main reason I fell for them (so to speak) and I hoped...

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Finch Gig 24/11/08 Oxford Academy
I hoped more than anything they wouldn't let me down

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 With 80's synth pop making a resurgence in culture, especially in the latest samplings of Kanye, Common and Timbaland, Semifinalists sophomore effort, accurately titled "2", makes a noble effort at breaking (or should i say, "Breakin'"?) into this genre. Released by the UK label V2, Semifinalists...

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Semifinalists - 2 [album]
V2 records
While barely able to stifle laughter from the cliché that is the band name Broken Melody, including the medieval font their moniker is typed in across the top of the album (what emotion is the medieval-ness supposed to evoke in a listener I am not sure..."hard"? Iron Maiden-like?) Face The World is... There’s little that can normally quell my spirits when it comes to a gig I’m looking forward to, bar an epic trot across London due to tube outage and inadequate bus services. So three hours and a cab journey later, I’m bailing into the Astoria 2 pissed verging on devastated about missing all three...

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Eastpak Antidote Tour 2008 - Astoria 2 - 5th November 08 [Live]
Flogging Molly, Skindred, The Streetdogs, Time Against

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 The Walkmen are truly a unique group. In a society where the charts are currently cluttered with a lot of bland indie bands, it's always refreshing to check out The Walkmen's innovative twist on the genre, and what they have to bring to the table. Their new album - You & Me is no exception. ...
Cut Off Your Hands are like any other indie band...jumpy guitars, catchy beats and easy-to-sing-along-to lyrics. It’s not distinctive, it’s not new and it’s certainly not original. Hailing from the land of many sheep, aka New Zealand, Cut Off Your Hands were originally called ‘Shaky Hands’.... Having neither seen nor heard this five-piece from Tempe, Arizona, I am an objective listener of their latest album ‘Thinks and Feels’. The band is What Laura Says and hey, I like that, “What Laura Says, Thinks and Feels”; fun. The album says a lot about these five long-haired lads, mainly sporting...

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What Laura Says - Thinks and Feels [Album]
Terpsikhore Collective

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 The Monocult are an odd bunch. Hailing, as a ‘band’, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne The Monocult are not a pre-organised unit but a complex lattice built from many different members, performers and folk fanatics who have been drawn together by pianist/keyboardist Matt Henderson in order to produce a...
With an introduction of sounds reminiscent of what would visually be blissful sunshine, anchored to the opening lyric of ‘I want to go to heaven for the weather’ projects you into a warm summers day even though it is deep winter! The opening of the song captures your happy thoughts and you want... STOP! STOP! STOP! Now, Stop by The Medicine is catchy, familiar and I could easily live with it. I hated it when it started, don't ask me why. The lyrics are personal and real, and the more it goes on, the more it grows in every way. Whilst searching for this band on Myspace I found...

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The Medicine - Stop! [Single]
Diffusion Records
I must say, as a fan of much of Mr.Weller's work I was excited to be offered the opportunity to review his headline tour gig at Cardiff International Arena on Thursday 20th November 2008. On the way to the venue I was asked for directions to the CIA. I obliged the couple with the pertinent...
The album art of this self titled debut album by Innerpartysystem leaves a lot to be desired. Not exactly a good start as far as they go. Innerpartsystem sounds like something that should be crazy and exiting and the most exiting thing about this album art work is the FBI anti piracy warning. ... “Do you like good music?” A rather odd question once asked by Arthur Conley. Surely everyone’s answer to this would be yes I do, Arthur. If the question had been “Do you like mindless drone?” then the only people who would answer yes would probably be ‘Opera House’ fans. If I had to put a tag on...

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Opera House - Change In Nature [EP]
Marrakesh Records
Runon Fragment's self titled second album reminds me of walking into a bar to discover a local band playing and quickly turning round to walk straight back out. Not because I don't want to listen to live music but because I know how every song is going to sound. Based in LA, Runon Fragment could be...
'Bone Garden' is the first single to be lifted from I Am Ghost's new album 'Those We Leave Behind'. 'Bone Garden' is loud, fast and powerful, the kind of song to start a gig off with. It grabs your attention quickly and the tempo keeps you wrapped up in it right until the end. The most notable... There must have been some sense of pride in Austin when its goliath of a music festival, South by Southwest, finally had a local buzz band. And it’s nice to finally see and hear a much-hyped band that doesn’t look or sound as though huge worldwide success means too much to them. Which is just as... Twenty years after the release of her debut record, Tracy Chapman is back with a new studio album and is still up there with the best of today's singer /songwriters, which has un-disputably secured her place in the history of popular music. 'Our Bright Future' comes at a time when radio friendly...
On arriving at the venue, I was very excited, mainly because Frank was doing his soundcheck, but also because the venue was very small! Bring on the up close and personal music love. I then went to do my interviews with Frank and Chris, who are both wonderfully nice men, and got even more excited... It is generally quite easy to tell whether or not an album is good. You can listen to it a few times and perhaps occasionally add some songs into mix CD's you make for friends, or you can listen to a few tracks, decide it was a mistake and take it back to the store you bought it from. Her Space... Having followed Lemar all the way through the old-school Fame Academy series (back when the telly format was reasonably fresh!), I’ve always considered the Tottenham-born soulster to have more musical integrity and smoother grooves that many other R&B artists. R&B is not my thing. On the surface...
The fourth UK release taken from their debut album, "This is Alphabeat", "What is happening" is a not bad effort from Danish popstrels Alphabeat. Having initially despised Alphabeat from the moment I laid eyes on them (literally, laid eyes on, in the form of their annoying blue peter-esque videos)...

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Alphabeat - What is happening [Single]
Copenhagen Records/EMI
And so for phase three of The Killers David Bowie homage and this time we get the Ashes to Ashes 80's stage of Bowie's career re-enacted by four men from Las Vegas. Does anyone hear the words 'Cabaret', no just me then? Well it's not that bad truthfully and I'm all for Bowie homage's the man is a...

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The Killers - Day And Age (Album)
Mercury Records
'Singularity' is the debut release from Virginia’s metal heavyweights Adversary. This album is released through the well know metal/hardcore label, Trustkill, who have recently been under fire for their dispute with Orange County’s Bleeding Through over apparent lack of funding. So if you are...

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Adversary - Singularity [CD]
Trustkill Records

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Ugly Stick return after 14 years to bring us a new album, the aptly titled 'Still Glistening'. Known back in the late 80s/early 90s for their pioneering blend of genres, culminating in the label Cowpunk, Ugly Stick like to mix up their sound with rock, country, student rock, indie, pop and... There is always an emphasis, from a marketing point of view, to convey the music on an album through the artwork, so that the purchaser can know roughly what to expect when buying an artist's releases. The Modern Age Slavery have got this one perfect, it is simply brutal, so much so that I can...

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The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [CD]
Napalm Records - Out 1st December
Fast, dreary, punky but not quite, its organised punk. The Front could be the Arctic Monkeys, not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all, that is unless as a band you want to sound like yourselves. Structured, resolved, understood, point taken. I know I will forget about 'Me and My God' when I wake...

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The Front - Me And My God (Single)
Diffusion Records - Out 1st Dec
I don't know what it is about military drum fills and repetitive vocals, and the word 'nothing' that excites me? Maybe because music making has become exactly that. Another indie band singing something about a girl. In this case 'she's easy on the eye'. "Nothing No More" is a short song. A...

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The Wasp Factory - Nothing No More [Single]
End Of The Trail Records - Out 1st Dec
Upon listening to Shake! Appeal various familiar sounds are grouped, rounded, composed, re-arranged, and regurgitated once again blaring out of my speakers, and you bet ya, as usual, there is a Ska sounding song involved. Now I'm not saying I'm not a fan of ska music. Oh no, it's just that to a...

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Shake! Appeal - Control [Single]
End of the Trail Records
Kelli Ali hails from Birmingham for the uninitiated but to listen to this album you certainly won't be thinking of endless motorways, traffic jams, and Frank Skinner (sorry I need to brush up on my Birmingham knowledge) instead you'll be floated above the clouds to some-sort of fantasia where we...

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Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse (Album)
One Little Indian Records - Out 24th Nov

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Despite the suggestion of the name, this really doesn't sound anything like a Broken Record. In fact, it sounds like the result of an underground experiment like if The Cure had been fed into one end of that big arse Hadron Collider thing in tobleone land and in the other end we inserted Conor...

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Broken Records - Lies (Single)
Distiller Records
Eskimo Joe’s third album Black Fingernails Red Wine is on my list of favourite albums of all time - granted, it’s a pretty big list, this album is still nonetheless on there. Released in Eskimo Joe’s native Australia in June 2006, Black Fingernails Red Wine is a solid, mature, and sublimely dark... If first impressions are something to go on with 88-Keys’ The Death of Adam, the album cover foretells I’m in for a treat. And considering the Executive Producer is Kanye West, I go in with high hopes. It is either going to be genius or pathetic… My hopes dissipate as soon as opening track...
Fleet Foxes are a band for all seasons. I first fell in love with their debut album whilst lounging on my balcony in the fleeting summer sun, and I thought it the perfect summer album, but tonight in Manchester it seemed to have taken on autumnal qualities. The songs seem to have a closeness with...

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Fleet Foxes - Manchester Academy 2, 9th November 2008 [Live]
Manchester Academy 2, 9th November 2008

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 Being only my second visit to the brand spanking Leeds Academy, I was still caught up in the excitement of the place. The Academy is a much welcome addition to the Leeds music scene, launched by the Kaisers last month, it provides a Large but personal arena to jump and shout to your favourite... Atlantic records - Need To Breathe- fronted by brothers 'Bear' and 'Bo' Rinehart are an American 'radio' rock band which I would absolutely love to hate. Their sound is reminiscent of Bryan Adams or Bon Jovi rocking an acoustic set, and their campfire swing is so close to sickly its almost...

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Need To Breathe - The Heat [Album]
Atlantic Records
Fresh, original and very cool. Dragonette's tracks make you dance, it may even force the grumpiest bastards to have a bit more fun and let loose for once. Their songs are more addictive than crack and coming from a person that would never describe themselves as a dancer, I found myself bopping...

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Dragonette - Galore [Album]
I Surrender Records

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 Are these guys never happy? More music from people who never seem to be happy about anything. Oasis are starting to become the kid at school who are always moaning about something, and to begin with you are interested about their heartfelt dismay, but after a while you begin to tire of it and...

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Oasis - Dig out your soul [Album]
Big Brother,Warner Bros. Records
This has to be one of the worst CD's I've been handed all year, and there has been some pretty terrible stuff released this year. 'K' has little to no song-writing skill and his lyrical delivery is so annoying I could hardly make it through the whole CD (and there's only 5 tracks). God forbid...

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K Anderson - 'Foxes EP' [EP]
Self Released

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided





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