Reviews

Hot Chip – One Life Stand
March 10 |

“Pop music doesn’t get much better”

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The Mary Onettes - Islands
March 9 |

Islands “… pleases, charms and beguiles throughout. Its melodies are a joy, its songcraft worth the entrance fee.” But how will it score overall?

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Musée Mécanique - Hold This Ghost
March 7 |

[sic]‘s Rob Gannon finds Hold This Ghost “… rather lovely”, so why does it “struggle”?

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The Smith Westerns - The Smith Westerns
March 5 |

Full of laconic glam riffs, ambient bridges and surging choruses, The Smith Westerns’ shiny, shiny pop is “an absolute treat”.

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White Hinterland - Kairos
March 3 |

White Hinterland are on the turn, and it suits them.

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Benjamin Shaw – I Got The Pox, The Pox Is What I Got EP
February 28 |

Miserablist strummer conjures “low-key gem”

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Chris Bradley - At The Outpost
February 28 |

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.”

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VOICEsVOICEs - Origins EP
February 26 |

If Origins is true to its name, there could be much to come from VOICEsVOICEs.

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Chew Lips - Unicorn
February 25 |

Chew Lips have, ahem, a rare beast on their hands.

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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Kollaps Tradixionales
February 24 |

The latest from the Montreal collective finds our Dez Innocent uplifted and back in love with life.

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The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
February 23 |

Nevermind if they’re “The Roaring Night”, are The Besnard Lakes providing Montreal’s return to the fore?

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The Lucy Show - ...undone
February 22 |

Forecast – a light frost at first with sunnier spells to follow.

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Blacklist - Midnight Of The Century
February 20 |

Sadly, Blacklist are not quite “black enough”.

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Melody Klyman - Bending The Knotted Oak
February 19 |

Brett Spaceman doesn’t believe in perfection but Melody Klyman goes close.

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Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
February 18 |

Pitch perfect, indie-rocking peer beaters.

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Good Weather For An Airstrike - Signals
February 17 |

Free download – EP/mini-album

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Yeasayer - Odd Blood
February 16 |

It’s pop Jim, but not as we know it.

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My Majestic Star - I Haven’t Got It In Me
February 14 |

Dez Innocent goes nu-gazing in Perth.

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Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
February 14 |

“Following an acquatic theme … it is more than easy to be swept away.”

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Damien* – Crippled Cute
February 13 |

“rare combination of the visceral and the cerebral”

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The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
February 13 |

Proving it’s hard to be soft, this San Diegan outfit ride a tidal wave of hype to shore.

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Githead – Landing
February 11 |

The golden age of Wire-less

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Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
February 11 |

The BQE’s orchestral movements leave Rob Gannon a little in the dark.

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Massive Attack - Heligoland
February 11 |

Too many singers, not enough songs.

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The Longcut – Open Hearts
February 10 |

Songs of fate and emotion

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Beach House - Teen Dream
February 9 |

Album #3 nails those “sparkly melodies that rattle and shimmer like a jewellery box.”

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These New Puritans - Hidden
February 9 |

Challenging, genre-spanning and “full of secrets” An early ‘year’ contender.

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Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
February 8 |

Less than the sum of its parts.

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Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit
February 8 |

The Norwegian jazz behemoth has been garnering high praise around the biz but what would our Tim Clarke have to say?

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City Of Satellites – Machine Is My Animal
February 7 |

Electronica duo find their own voice with retro-futurism

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