All the singles, titanic AND terrible, together in one place but does it stand up to the greatest collections of its kind?
really good review, well considered and didn't slip into being too pretentious and snobby, or too fanboy-ish. I don't think you've got a...
Mon 14 Jun, 2010
My Album Reviews (13)
Girls Aloud
Out Of Control
to everyone who's saying that this shouldnt be in nme, fuck off and buy something...
Thu 06 Nov, 2008
Grace Jones
Hurricane
no matter what it sounded like this would not have got a bad review - keep up the 'ironic cool'...
Thu 20 Nov, 2008
Album Review: The Enemy
Music For The People
i usually get pissed off with NME reviews but this is a good one. And all Enemy fans getting pissed off, remember one thing, you are Enemy fans......
Fri 01 May, 2009
Album review: Placebo - 'Battle For The Sun'
All the appearance of a cure, all the reality of a disease
I agree, ashtray heart is a quality song, but the rest of this album is like 40 minutes of...
Thu 11 Jun, 2009
Album review: Florence And The Machine - 'Lungs'
After the hype and the hate its just OK
Hold up! this can't be right! The NME hyped and hyped a band, put them on the cover before they'd done anything worthy of being on a cover,...
Wed 08 Jul, 2009
Album review: The Dead Weather - 'Horehound'
Patchy effort left too clean by White wash
dull album, no tunes at all - Jack! Write some more White Stripes songs! Then get your bloody sister on a plane and come and headline Reading! ...
Wed 15 Jul, 2009
Album Review: The Rumble Strips - 'Welcome To The Walk Alone'
Devon bands quality is on the slide: blame Ronson and their lack of ideas
i think this review is symptomatic of the 'loving the smell of your own self-righteous, indier than thou shit' syndrome. Rather than writing...
Wed 22 Jul, 2009
Album review: The Bravery 'Stir The Blood' (Island)
They haven't exactly moved on, but The Bravery remain pleasingly weird
woah woah woah, i've had a lot of fucking comments disallowed from appearing on this website, for various reasons, but we're allowed to use...
Fri 01 Jan, 2010
Album review: These New Puritans - 'Hidden' (Angular Recording Corporation)
Former students of post punk step out of the classroom into a league of their own
this is fucking incredible, first listened to it today and when it finished i just put it on...
Thu 21 Jan, 2010
Album Review: Oasis - 'Time Flies...1994-2009 (Big Brother)
All the singles, titanic AND terrible, together in one place but does it stand up to the greatest collections of its kind?
really good review, well considered and didn't slip into being too pretentious and snobby, or too fanboy-ish. I don't think you've got a...
Mon 14 Jun, 2010
Album review: Dizzee Rascal - 'Tongue N' Cheek (Dirtee Stank)
Dylan Mills latest reveals a cartoonish yet more controlled side to his character
just read this again cos of the mercury nom, but i think it's odd to compare his new persona to a 'slim shady persona', because eminem...
Wed 21 Jul, 2010
Album review: Arcade Fire - 'The Suburbs' (Mercury)
Arcade Fire explore the past and make bold steps forward for their ambitious but accessible masterpiece
@TerryHall well I guess there must be more that one journalist at the NME, i think this guy is the new...
Fri 06 Aug, 2010
Album review: Hurts - 'Happiness' (RCA)
Ludicrous on the heroic scale, yes, but love them or hate them, you cannot deny they've got the tunes
I think the comparison with blockbuster movies is unfair. People with no real interest in the cinema but who want to spend a tenner on something...
Tue 07 Sep, 2010