Tim Chester

NME.COM 1996 – 2011: The Inside Story

As part of our 15th birthday celebrations, we look back at the development of NME.COM - and the internet overall - across the last...

What Was The Best Track Of 1996?

Tracks of the year lists are funny beasts. Obviously subjective and wide open for debate from the outset, they’re also helplessly rooted in time...

This Week’s Singles Reviewed (8/10/11)

NME's Anne T Donahue reviews this week's singles DZ Deathrays- Gebbie Street Everyone loves a little DFA 1979, so we can assume that after a few...

Album Review: Björk – ‘Biophilia’

The 18th-century poet and artist William Blake once wrote, “Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death.” Blake was a...

James Blake – ‘Enough Thunder’ review

It’s widely accepted that James Blake’s debut album didn’t meet expectations, with its diversion into vocal-driven pop feeling like a step backward from the...

Album Review: Ryan Adams – ‘Ashes & Fire’

While ‘Is This It’’s 10th birthday was celebrated in nearly every music magazine going, there’s another defining 2001 release that hasn’t quite received the...

Album Review: The Strange Boys – ‘Live Music’

Now shorn of the barbed sax notes that graced breakthrough song ‘Be Brave’, Austin’s Strange Boys get back to being the best fuck-ups in...

Album Review: Martyn – ‘Ghost People’

If the Dutch producer’s last album ‘Great Lengths’ was an exercise in contemplative, spacious dubstep, then ‘Ghost People’ is instinctual; muscles tensed in observance...

Album Review: Tubelord – ‘Romance’

Still as petulant and wide-eyed as a sack full of whippets, Kingston math-poppers Tubelord’s second effort is just as irritating and convivial in equal...

Album Review: Catherine AD – ‘Communion’

Let’s leave lachrymal, glitchy bellends Jamie xx, Woon and James Blake to their pissy-eyed cyber wailing – Welsh pianist, singer and published PhD student...
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