Album Reviews

The Leading Hotels Of The WorldThe World

The elicited emotional responses are pretty limited when it comes to post-hardcore. It seems to be (de)constructed in such a way as to leave...

On The Ropes

Sometimes you have to accept things for no more than they are. Look no deeper, avoid searching for a grand plan and appreciate the...

…Finally

Like drag queens and, say, Hungarian free-jazz octets, Super J Lounge are better when they don't play it straight. For while the Arizona/Kent trio's...

Stiff Upper Lip

Let's not piss about. You can debate this and argue that but certain things we hold to be self-evident and one of those things...

The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack

"Pretentious," once cooed Brian Eno - shiny-bonced pedagogue of all that is wibbly, experimental and 'difficult'- "is the most important thing we can be."...

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

At least they are still standing. But it's been a close call. If 'Be Here Now' was the sound of Oasis staggering through the...

Little Lost Soul

Wanna hear something really scary? Not bloodcurdling, perhaps, but a bit of low-level anxiety that, if gone unchecked, can bloom into full-on psychosis. You...

She Woman Cat Type Thing

Don't let anyone tell you that Les Rythmes Digitales are the only ones who sound like something the cat dragged in from the early-'80s....

MACHINA/The Machines Of God

So Billy's grown his hair back with Dr Robert Plant's Patented Scalp tonic, D'Arcy's left because she didn't think the studded denim waistcoats were...

Sometimes I Cry

Remember when rock'n'roll was dance music? That halcyon period in rock's youth, when rock'n'roll was the party music of choice, and a deep, flavoursome...
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