Album Reviews

Central Heating/ Central Heating 2

Purists wouldn't call it a hip-hop label, but, while they've been busy copying American producers and wringing their hands (about "the state of British...

Greatest Hits

The timing couldn't be worse. Issuing a double CD of Whitney Houston's finest moments was intended to shore up her rapidly eroding soul diva...

Science & Nature

Amid the brouhaha surrounding The Bluetones' recent ill-conceived comments in NME regarding English culture and the alleged 'dilution' thereof, a far more revealing admission...

Pay Attention

No Doubttried it and got off about the time Gwen dyed her hair pink. However, the ska-revival roundabout with punk knobs on is still...

All Hands On The Bad One

There's rarely been a worse time in rock to own breasts, now that the frat boy is king and "show us your tits" routinely...

Return To Splendor

It's the sound of pop eating itself and then spitting out the bones, the last stand of pan-cultural postmodernity. At any rate, that's what...

Binaural

They return, at a time when the world is dominated by trashy frat-punks and schlock-metal bozos, a moment when rock seems to have been...

Dirty Pillows

Guerrilla groups for the heartbroken - there aren't many men in Savoy Grand's wistful line of work who would hit upon a plan of...

Mwng

You could phrase it in terms of war. Peripheries versus consensus. Welsh versus English. Bands with ideas versus bands who might once have seen...

Live

Possibly because they look like homicidal farmers,Built To Spill have never really caught on in quite the way expected. This, despite the fact that...
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