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Listening to this predominantly instrumental musical jewel the elegy of Thomas Gray came to mind, that ‘full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.’ This stunning album, a truly magical box of delights, is dedicated to Ivor Angel who died in 2007. Sadly... Sing Along? That’s the last thing that those familiar with previous Múm albums will expect - dense and experimental expeditions that have more in common with underwater landscaping than they do ‘songs.’ Things start off promisingly; ‘If I were a fish, and you were a seashell, would you marry me... The same month that saw the release of 'The BQO', a sound collage based on the Brooklyn-Queens expressway, Sufjan Stevens also released ‘Run Rabbit Run,’ a classical interpretation of his 2001 album 'Enjoy Your Rabbit'. Much as 'The BQO'. the music is performed by classical trained musicians and...
A driving bam-bam-bam-bam and the way the the track 'The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo' drops in I can't decide whether this is Phil Lynott fronting the E Street Band or Clarence Clemons guesting with Thin Lizzy. In fact, it's Memphis band Lucero. After a few bars the Lynott impression fades but...

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Lucero - 1372 Overton Park [Album]
Universal Republic
Danish duo Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner, The Raveonettes to you and I, return with a bang, both in the literal and the figurative sense! ‘Bang’ is the first single from the bands 4th studio album “In And Out Of Control” and is a track that once again demonstrates the bands effortless ability... If there’s such a thing as a special relationship between Britain and the US then this album may be the reason for it! What an astonishing, intelligent and accomplished album "Burn the Whole Place Down" truly is! Hey Negrita is wonderful; Londoners taking on the Yanks at country music and winning...
The future, the past and the present of rock’n’roll: if you are at Hammersmith Apollo tonight, you’re going to get it all for the price of one. Not even Tesco could beat that! Black Stone Cherry, a music reality of our days, recently consecrated by their second acclaimed album “Folklore and...

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Black Stone Cherry - London Hammersmith Apollo, October 15 2009
With Duff McKagan's Loaded and The Parlor Mob

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 Hoots and Hellmouth, a folk-rock / alt-country / gospel outfit from Philadelphia, home of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Declaration of Independence, are led by songwriters Sean Hoots and Andrew ‘Hellmouth’ Gray. The pair’s musical influences are many and varied, creating ‘offbeat fare’ their fans... Newcastle post punkers avoid the cliches. Just. Lazy Music Journalist Device #138: "The Editors and Interpol sound like Joy Division." No, they fucking don't. A reliable test to help clear up any confusion would be to simply dive in to the exquisite torture of "Unknown Pleasures," suffer the...
Distribution companies are becoming serious players in the music world. With so many outlets selling music these days, from download sites, to mobile phone ring-tone sellers, as well as the traditional hard copy selling methods, distribution companies are taking a larger role in the marketing of... Having little previous knowledge about T.H.White or his music, it was through researching his Myspace page that educated me about this New York based multi-instrumentalist. T.H White's music has been used in a startling amount of television programs and advertisements, the best known probably being...

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T. H. White - Company Book [Album]
Sky Council Recordings
I got it into my head (somehow) that Haroula Rose was from elsewhere. Truth is Haroula Rose is a Californian lady through and through. With her influences from all different parts of the globe, its no wonder that there are so many different aspects to her sound. But, in the end, should we care...

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Haroula Rose - Someday [EP]
Self Released
Let's face it, you're not going to get an unbiased opinion out of me, and why should you? I think I've described myself before as one of the Bat-Faithful, but I guess that's how it is with music anyway. I'm really not that likely to go and listen to bands that I don't like, or at least think I'll...

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Bat For Lashes, Manchester 14th Oct 2009 [Live]
And when the battle was done, I was promised my Sun

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 The Jessie Rose Trip are a four piece band who hail from Stockport, just outside Manchester. They're made up of, yep, you guessed it; Jessie Rose on lead vocals / lead guitar / piano along with her band who are James Wood playing Drums / percussion, Jonny Thomson on Trumpet / piano, Mark Lewis on... Said the shotgun to the face, “Castrovalva!” I fell in love with this band instantly. Having recently acquired vocalist Leemun Smith, and swiftly beginning work on the furious "Thug Poetry," Castrovalva are making all the right moves. Not only did "Thug Poetry" immediately grab me by the short...
I set off on the 120 mile trip to Manchester with raging toothache. I had made a CD to play on the way containing tracks by artists such as Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Alabama 3, George Thorogood and the Destroyers which I listened to as I contemplated the events that would follow; a gig by... Lock your doors, there are mischievous CD swappers around. That's all I can put it down to. Earlier on today I listened to this new album called "People Are Soft" by The Swimmers. I heard a decent little record but one overshadowed by its influences, touches of the Rutts, echoes of the Bunnymen... Alright, Takoma Star. “Till The Fall” is an album heavy with expectant potential. This is a promising album from a band that shoots for a pop-emo kind of category, and they are shooting for it. Make no mistake. Citing bands like Jimmy Eat world, Led Zeppelin, and Sunny Day Real Estate as...
Living in a small and shockingly closed-minded rural “redneck” community, you become accustomed to certain things. For example, you can’t find any real (not to mention fresh) sushi. As a film buff, I am constantly annoyed over the fact that I am unable to discuss motion pictures with anyone...

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Anna Rose - Self Titled [EP]
Sally Apples

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Strut records (STRUT) has quite an array of talent signed to their label. Luminaries such as Grandmaster Flash sit alongside up and coming artists such as Kid Creole and Amp Fiddler. With Disco not Disco, Strut Records is attempting to educate a wider audience to the joys of the roots and... Need some retro frat-boy rock in your life? Need not one but TWO albums of this puerile stuff? If the answer is ‘yes’ you would be looking for the single disc re-issue of Mucky Pup’s “A Boy In a Man’s World” from 1985 and “Now” from 1991. The four piece from New Jersey had a ten year career...
The newly formed Sweethead hit you with their debut single ‘The Great Disruptors.’ Sweethead are formed of Troy Van Leuuwen of Queens of the Stone Age, Norm Block and Eddie Nappi from the Mark Lanegan Band and new to the scene vocalist Serrina Sims. On first impression the sound is good and...

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Sweethead - The Great Disruptors [Single]
Strange Addiction Records
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... 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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 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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