Emily Mackay

Album review: Stricken City – ‘Songs About People I Know’

If this was the early ’80s Stricken City would be labelmates of Orange Juice, as this mini-album features eight of the prettiest, shambling C86-style...

Album review: The Victorian English Gentlemens Club – ‘Love On An Oil Rig’

These past few weeks, shock-blonde VEG Club frontman Adam Taylor has been spouting off to fans about how much he hates the Cardiff band’s...

Album review: Amanda Blank – ‘I Love You’

Filthy Philly rapstress ropes in famous mates, but falls short of rap superstardom With Lil’ Kim last seen on Dancing With The Stars, rap retiree...

Album review: The Big Pink – ‘A Brief History Of Love’

'A Brief History Of Love’? That’s a big undertaking. Love’s infinite and sublime vicissitudes have proved a draw for creative sorts since time immemorial,...

Album review: Jamie T – ‘Kings And Queens’

When Jamie T surfed the initial wave of hype on his washboard, it just seemed like Virgin had dropped a syringe on Camden and...

Album review: HEALTH – ‘Get Color’ (City Slang)

Perhaps the most amazing thing about music is that its popularity endures when, on the whole, it’s so relentlessly fucking tedious. Craven, careerist, grovelling,...

Album review: Gary War – ‘Newraytheonport’ (Shdwply)

Less Lisa Lisa than Nite Jewel, but without John Maus’ madman disco, Gary War is another Stateside analogue acolyte. Bearing a tape-recorder and nodding...

Album review: Rodrigo Y Gabriela – ’11:11′

It’s not often you get flamenco duos in NME; let alone flamenco duos who have opened the main stage of V Festival and covered...

Album review: InMe – ‘Herald Moth’ (Graphite)

For InMe/a] to have even made it to their fourth album is quite the feat: shame it largely huffs dong, eh? It’s not the...

Daniel Johnston – ‘Yip/Jump Music’, ‘Continued Story/Hi, How Are You’, ‘Welcome To My World’

Even if you’ve never heard Daniel Johnston, you’ve heard about him. Maybe you’ve heard he’s a hero, a damaged genius whose ultra-lo-fi songs inspired...
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