Reviews
This Many Boyfriends - This Many Boyfriends
October 4 | Reviews
Endorsements don’t come much higher than those from beyond the grave.
Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil
October 3 | Reviews
Tim Clarke runs the rule over the latest (and maybe not greatest) Lights Out Asia.
Birds Of Maya - Ready To Howl
September 24 | Reviews
“a ridiculously high-octane document of elemental force”
Carlton Melton - Photos Of Photos
September 19 | Reviews
Recorded in a geodesic dome, no less.
Dum Dum Girls - End Of Daze EP
September 18 | Reviews
“Girls, it would seem it’s your move from here.”
A.R.Kane – Complete Singles Collection
September 16 | Reviews
A collection that needs no further explanation than it’s own title. But Brett Spaceman offers one anyway.
Crisopa – Biodance
September 13 | Reviews
Promising debut from Spanish electronica act.
Cat Power - Sun
September 12 | Reviews
“back it would seem to put contemporaries in their place.”
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
September 11 | Reviews
Red On Black unveils Animal Collective’s “brilliant failure”.
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
September 6 | Reviews
“effortless, creative and genuine” stuff from a man “born to do nothing but rock”
Bill Fay - Life Is People
September 5 | Reviews
A master songwriter at work.
Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
September 4 | Reviews
Excellent comeback from Rowland and Co.
Get Well Soon - The Scarlet Beast O’Seven Heads
September 3 | Reviews
Welcome to “this busy and highly idiosyncratic world.”
Swans - The Seer
August 29 | Reviews
“Maybe it’s time to start referencing Swans on their own terms – as true originals.”
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
August 28 | Reviews
“Fragrant World sounds like a band struggling with their identity”
Stephen Hummel – Meld
August 24 | Reviews
Electro wizz goes pop.
Delicate Steve - Positive Force
August 21 | Reviews
Mostly all Positive, but isn’t quite “strong enough to punch its way out of the confines of the headphone genre.”
OMBRE - Believe You Me
August 20 | Reviews
“Believe You Me is a document capturing the sounds of two alien worlds attempting to communicate”
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
August 13 | Reviews
“The world needs people like Pink to be making records like Mature Themes”
Shawn Lee - Synthesizers In Outer Space.
August 10 | Reviews
Acid jazz/funk “work of a beats craftman”
PS I Love You - Death Dreams
August 9 | Reviews
“the Kingston, Ontario duo seemed to have finally nailed it” … or have they?
Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix
August 8 | Reviews
Getting harder to categorise …
Amber Spyglass - Breathing in Essence
August 7 | Reviews
Sprawling, incoherent etheral, Goth folk EP
Codeine – Frigid Stars, Barely Real and The White Birch reissues
August 6 | Reviews
Reissue for seminal slowcore act said to have influenced Mogwai.
Swordfishtrombones – Aftertaste
August 2 | Reviews
Czech act recall the bravery and style of dEUS.
Man Without Country - Foe
August 1 | Reviews
The next great synthpop band?
Duke Special – Oh Pioneer
July 29 | Reviews
Irish singer, songwriter evokes The Divine Comedy plus other luminaries.
Mere – Mere
July 28 | Reviews
“serpentine, smoky, and sometimes scary”
Light Asylum - Light Asylum
July 24 | Reviews
“feeding on scraps in between masterpieces could soon get very frustrating.”
Twin Shadow - Confess
July 16 | Reviews
“ … it’s like he’s bathed in Paco Rabanne.”



