Tim Chester

Album Review: Givers – ‘In Light’

Afrobeat-loving Louisiana five-piece Givers formed after a series of 24-hour jam sessions and a spell in an improv covers band. While their love of...

Album Review: Still Corners – ‘Creatures Of An Hour’

Still Corners are a band of great beauty; live, the London group surround themselves in dimly lit, elegant cascades of projected white light. But...

Album Review: Jeffrey Lewis – ‘A Turn In The Dream-Songs’

If our ability to repeatedly make the same mistakes is part of what makes us human, then Jeffrey Lewis makes the rest of us...

Bands Reveal Their Top 10 Albums Of The Past 15 Years

As part of our 15th anniversary celebrations we asked a host of musicians what their top ten albums from the last fifteen years are....

This Week’s Singles Reviewed (3/10/11)

NME's John Doran reviews this week's singles Ronika - 'Only Only' Before the Happy Mondays ruined everything by making dance music that sounded like a tramp...

Album Review: Feist – ‘Metals’

She’s the one who did that iPod ad (‘1234’). She also wrote that plinky-plonky song found playing beneath the opening The Inbetweeners scene (‘I...

Album Review: Theophilus London – ‘Timez Are Weird These Days’

Brooklyn-raised Theophilus London is a fountain of Tumblr bloggability. Alongside a hipster-in-skinny-jeans image, he’s put out cool-catnip like his Smiths-worshipping, synth-heavy ‘This Charming...

Album Review: Spank Rock – ‘Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A Fucking Liar’

Spank Rock’s 2006 debut ‘YoYoYoYoYo’ was a frisky little number, crackling with whip-smart booty bass beats, gurning Game Boy riffs and dumb but dextrous...

Album Review: Neon Indian – ‘Era Extraña’

It’s hip to be square – or in the case of the year’s current musical climate, it’s hip to be anything but chillwave. Luckily,...

Album Review: We Were Promised Jetpacks – ‘In The Pit Of The Stomach’

While 2009’s debut ‘These Four Walls’ was a brilliant attempt at thoughtful-yet-turbulent rock, it was too restrained for the tracks to be the fist-pumpers...
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