Good morning. Last night I gave this new album a spin and I liked it. Genre: garage pop. Enjoy Sonny & The Sunsets! (US version here.) Sonny & The Sunsets – Antenna to the...
Brand new BECK! Any new material from indie rock’s coolest eternal badass is good news to me (and the world), but the warped, chill vibe of “Defriended” is particularly...
Hi again. The new album by singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur is well worth your time. Enjoy! (US version here.) Joseph Arthur – The Ballad of Boogie Christ Filed under: 2013, Singer...
After 7 years of silence, BoySetsFire has delivered and album that is more intense, more fragile, and more brutal than anything they've ever done before. While A Nation Sleeps...
What Shane Meadows’ reunion doc lacks in journalistic rigour, it makes up for with tear-jerking affection
First new Nine Inch Nails in 5 years eh? It’s got all the trademarks of a NIN song—out of this world sounds, some detuned, some slightly creepy, all wonderfully layered over an...
First things first: this isn't Sundowner, the mainly acoustic project of Chris McCaughan from The Lawrence Arms, so no getting overly excited because you think it's a new, secret...
have shrugged off the shadowy malaise that permeated their moody debut in order to get their electro-pop dance on with their shimmering, adventurous follow-up, Good Together. The...
Gauzy industrial pop laced with remnants of early '90s shoegaze, Ministry of Love is a surreal window into the world of Los Angeles group IO Echo. More
The six years since the release of Queens Of The Stone Age's last album, Era Vulgaris, an effort best described as a 'one for the hardcore fans if not the casual observer', has...
It's been a tough time of late for the humble sparrow. Once near-ubiquitous, they've seen a sixty to seventy per cent drop in their numbers since 1994, due to a changing...
Josh Homme gives every single last fuck when it comes to crafting blow-your-mind-and-incinerate-your-crotch rock’n’roll
A lot has changed since Queens of the Stone Age brought Era Vulgaris into the world six long years ago. Never mind the revolving door of band members; that's always been a factor...
Hey. The new album by Queens of the Stone Age is a good one. Genre: rock. Read this review and enjoy! Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork Filed under: 2013, Rock
Queens of the Stone Age return from a six-year absence with a mature record that brims with new ideas
More unbearable tension and hard-won release from the Sexiest Heavy Group on the Planet
More unbearable tension and hard-won release from the Sexiest Heavy Group on the Planet
Hi. The new album by singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger was just added to Spotify. Enjoy! Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record Filed under: 2013, Singer-songwriter
The former Fiery Furnaces frontwoman continues her transformation in to a solo artist we should be taking very seriously, all without losing any of the charm and humour of her...
The title of The Fiery Furnaces singer/songwriter Eleanor Friedberger's second solo record could be read as a sly wink. Her 2011 debut, Last Summer, was the true Personal Record...
For a band with such remarkable consistency throughout their career, Jimmy Eat World's 2010 full-length Invented ended up an outlier, a long, meandering collection of retread...
There are few artists that have perfected the kind of engrossing and engaging dance delights that Jono and Gabriel demonstrate here.
For such an iconic scene, it's weird that the baggy/Madchester music scene hasn't spawned more of a direct sonic legacy. You can hear echoes of the music in many acts; a hint of...
Hi. The sparkling debut album by electronic rock duo Jagwar Ma is a very, very recent addition to Spotify. Read some positive reviews and enjoy! (Note: US version here.) Jagwar Ma...
Back at the tail end of 1980s Britain, things were getting loose. As the vise-like grip of Thatcherism tightened, the cultural reaction was antithetical: tent-sized flares, mind...
The Sunderland band's second album is effortless and skippy, but it does have the odd dodgy lyric
Hi. The intense new album by Vampire Weekend is now available all over Europe and in the US. Genre: pop. Enjoy! Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City Filed under: 2013, Pop
If lots and lots of people love you and just as many people hate you, you are doing something right. Vampire Weekend, as we all know by now, rode the wave of Pitchfork hype to...
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here follows 2009's hugely successful release Black Gives Way to Blue . That album entered Billboard's Top 200 at No. 5, sold over one million copies...
Zombie-grunge weirdos carve a little more nostalgia-friendly meat off them bones
Evening. The latest album by Alice in Chains is a fairly recent addition to Spotify. Genre: rock. Read some reviews and enjoy! Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Filed...
Despite being one of the best album in this label's long history and one of the more memorable debut albums in an era full of 'em, 11:11 has been out of print for far too long...
In 2010 The National went for broke with High Violet, and in the face of improbably high expectation, they pulled it off. The album - their fifth - took an exhausting two years to...
Matt Berninger continues to find inspiration behind suburbia's blackout curtains as The National deliver their wisest, most stately record to date.
Birthed from Cincinnati college jam sessions and an old band named after vocalist Matt Berninger's mom (Nancy), The National proper came together in Brooklyn in 1999 and have...
Hello again. Yes, this is the second notable album that was added for most users yesterday and now that it has been added everywhere today it gets a blog post here as well. And...
Critics often talk about how comfortable The National are, as though they’re some sort of safety net band when your travels through “edgier” music get too rough. I never really...
A fascinating record that begs softly for closer inspection. These songs may not announce themselves with cheer or bombast, but they sure as hell linger in the memory.
Devon Welsh, sole proprietor of spelling-challenged act Majical Cloudz, has a stunning voice. An emotive baritone, it soars above his minimal instrumentation, and is by far the...
Their (slightly cheesy) name may evoke feelings of sunshine, fresh-cut daisies, and rainbows, but Majical Cloudz are anything but. Maybe that’s the genius behind the Montreal duo...
"Lacking the rootsier edge of Save His Soul, Four finds Blues Traveler retreating to their standard blues- boogie formula, with mixed results. Of course, there are some fine songs...