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Reviews
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
March 10 | Reviews
“Pop music doesn’t get much better”
The Mary Onettes - Islands
March 9 | Reviews
Islands “… pleases, charms and beguiles throughout. Its melodies are a joy, its songcraft worth the entrance fee.” But how will it score overall?
Musée Mécanique - Hold This Ghost
March 7 | Reviews
[sic]‘s Rob Gannon finds Hold This Ghost “… rather lovely”, so why does it “struggle”?
The Smith Westerns - The Smith Westerns
March 5 | Reviews
Full of laconic glam riffs, ambient bridges and surging choruses, The Smith Westerns’ shiny, shiny pop is “an absolute treat”.
White Hinterland - Kairos
March 3 | Reviews
White Hinterland are on the turn, and it suits them.
Benjamin Shaw – I Got The Pox, The Pox Is What I Got EP
February 28 | Reviews
Miserablist strummer conjures “low-key gem”
Chris Bradley - At The Outpost
February 28 | Reviews
“Bradley roams successfully from Neil Young sepia tones to Nick Drake laments, from piano-led storytelling that occasionally recalls James Taylor to power-chord pop.”
VOICEsVOICEs - Origins EP
February 26 | Reviews
If Origins is true to its name, there could be much to come from VOICEsVOICEs.
Chew Lips - Unicorn
February 25 | Reviews
Chew Lips have, ahem, a rare beast on their hands.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Kollaps Tradixionales
February 24 | Reviews
The latest from the Montreal collective finds our Dez Innocent uplifted and back in love with life.
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
February 23 | Reviews
Nevermind if they’re “The Roaring Night”, are The Besnard Lakes providing Montreal’s return to the fore?
The Lucy Show - ...undone
February 22 | Reviews
Forecast – a light frost at first with sunnier spells to follow.
Blacklist - Midnight Of The Century
February 20 | Reviews
Sadly, Blacklist are not quite “black enough”.
Melody Klyman - Bending The Knotted Oak
February 19 | Reviews
Brett Spaceman doesn’t believe in perfection but Melody Klyman goes close.
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
February 18 | Reviews
Pitch perfect, indie-rocking peer beaters.
Good Weather For An Airstrike - Signals
February 17 | Reviews
Free download – EP/mini-album
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
February 16 | Reviews
It’s pop Jim, but not as we know it.
My Majestic Star - I Haven’t Got It In Me
February 14 | Reviews
Dez Innocent goes nu-gazing in Perth.
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
February 14 | Reviews
“Following an acquatic theme … it is more than easy to be swept away.”
Damien* – Crippled Cute
February 13 | Reviews
“rare combination of the visceral and the cerebral”
The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
February 13 | Reviews
Proving it’s hard to be soft, this San Diegan outfit ride a tidal wave of hype to shore.
Githead – Landing
February 11 | Reviews
The golden age of Wire-less
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
February 11 | Reviews
The BQE’s orchestral movements leave Rob Gannon a little in the dark.
Massive Attack - Heligoland
February 11 | Reviews
Too many singers, not enough songs.
The Longcut – Open Hearts
February 10 | Reviews
Songs of fate and emotion
Beach House - Teen Dream
February 9 | Reviews
Album #3 nails those “sparkly melodies that rattle and shimmer like a jewellery box.”
These New Puritans - Hidden
February 9 | Reviews
Challenging, genre-spanning and “full of secrets” An early ‘year’ contender.
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
February 8 | Reviews
Less than the sum of its parts.
Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit
February 8 | Reviews
The Norwegian jazz behemoth has been garnering high praise around the biz but what would our Tim Clarke have to say?
City Of Satellites – Machine Is My Animal
February 7 | Reviews
Electronica duo find their own voice with retro-futurism
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