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My Album Reviews (10)
Idlewild: 'Scottish Fiction: Best Of 1997-2007'
'This traces their descent from brilliant to bland'
I would love to meet you Mr McMahon. You appear to me to be a typical 'I used to like this band when the were abscure and different but now they are...
Thu 04 Oct, 2007
Weezer
Weezer
Ah James, you are normally atrocious at writing reviews (I think you gave an Idlewild best of 5 out of 10 once and compared them to Coldplay & REM,...
Tue 10 Jun, 2008
The Vines
Melodia
I have often wondered If any of the employees at the NME are disciplined by the internal NME hierarchy for some of the 'reviews' they write....
Mon 11 Aug, 2008
Ida Maria
Fortress Round My Heart
I like it better when she shuts the hell up...This is basically cool...
Tue 12 Aug, 2008
Glasvegas
Glasvegas
Shock, NME gave this 9/10. Haven't heard the album but heard "Geraldine" and I liked it. Then I heard them play it live on Transmission...
Tue 09 Sep, 2008
Hot Leg
Red Light Fever
Not really a review more of a good summing up of a band. What you should do next time Hamish is reduce this to around a paragraph in length and then...
Wed 11 Feb, 2009
Album Review: The Enemy
Music For The People
'51st State' employs that most rubbish of things, a one-note guitar solo===I am no longer much of an oasis fan but the b-side to...
Mon 27 Apr, 2009
Album review: Green Day
21st Century Breakdown
it sounds like the hives if they were called green...
Wed 20 May, 2009
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
Having been in a band of some form or other since I was 15 playing blues, rock, indie, pop, punk, alternative. folk, jazz, etc (and having a love for...
Thu 21 Jan, 2010
Album review: The Courteeners - 'Falcon' (Polydor)
Liam and the other three finally take flight on their second album
When I heard the new single I was like, 'God, when will John McClure stop making music and go back to being a friend of the Arctic...
Thu 04 Mar, 2010