Album Reviews

A Week Away

The story goes something like this. A bandhelmed by a man named Shirley form in 1995 - Britpop's fleeting prime. They start their own...

I’ll Take Care Of You

Mark Lanegan, tobacco-chewing loose cannon frontman of Screaming Trees, is a bad man. Of that there is no doubt. This, his fourth solo...

Modern

Modern life, it isn't rubbish. Not if you're still partying like it's 1979. The Buzzcocks' album of new material, earnestly titled 'Modern', may have...

Manticore

You may have felt this way before. Lethargically channel-hopping one hot summer's afternoon, sipping on a cold drink, you find yourself strangely transfixed by...

Pop Music & Space Travel

In a peculiar parallel universe, it's always sunny, everyone wears purple and yellow and Clint Boon is king. Unfortunately, he's actually a bloke who...

Antenna

Oh, the humanity. Usually, it's a lack of it that informs modern electronic music - a steely futurism that severs the boat of comprehension...

Day One

Member of Olympia bands The Crabs and Cadallaca; teacher; writer; political activist... Sarah Dougher sure lives her life to the fullest. 'Day One' is...

The Glue Hotel Tapes

Hunger, as Johnny Rotten once observed, is an energy. Jamie Hince has got it - having had one failed brush with pop as singer...

Pick Up

A big up to our brothers and sisters in music retail. Many of the world's greatest musical minds are to be found rotting behind...

Approaching Silence

It was around 1981, dawn of the new romantic, that NME depicted a cartoon of David Sylvian, lead singer of Japan, with his head...
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