Chris Mandle

Album Review: White Lies – Ritual (Fiction)

On the surface, there was nothing gravely wrong with White Lies’ 2009 debut, ‘To Lose My Life’. In fact, we’d wager that a sizable...

Gorillaz – The Fall (Parlophone) Review

Anyone who has been following the career of Damon Albarn’s second biggest group over the last 13 years will be well aware that post-punk...

Album Review: Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi

When one of the most successful independent record labels of the past decade puts out only a mere smattering of work by female solo...

Album Review: Sun Airway – Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)

The chillaxing enterprise of Philadelphia duo Patrick Marsciell and Jon Bathmus, Sun Airway’s inaugural effort sounds like your dad’s attempts to muscle in on...

Album Review: Wire – Red Barked Tree (Pink Flag)

Despite influencing everything from US hardcore to electroclash and Britpop magpie Damon Albarn since forming in 1976, Wire have bizarrely remained a cult concern....

Album Review: Duke Garwood – Dreamboatsafari (Fire)

This is very much a pestilential record. It treasures ooze and seep, as if what is contained within was somehow originally part of a...

Album Review: Beep! – City Of The Future (Third Culture)

Some of ‘City Of The Future’ sounds like it takes place in a Sims shopping mall, some of it like a class of infants...

Album Review: Motorhead – The World Is Yours (SPV)

Motorhead’s previous album, 2008’s ‘Motörizer’, found Lemmy and comrades striving to maintain their bad-ass reputation at the mercy of a sterile production and a...

Album Review: Ryan Francesoni – Parables (Drag City)

In a city renowned for its indie-rock scene, Portland dweller and Joanna Newsom collaborator Ryan Francesconi sticks out like a toff in a brothel....

Album Review: Suuns – Zeroes QC

What’s really in a name change? Canada’s Suuns were called Zeroes, but rechristened themselves on discovering a bunch of old Cali punks who traded...
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