Album Reviews

There’s A Poison Goin On…

The sleeve of this previously Internet-only album features a pastiche of the 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show!' album cover, featuring a black child surrounded...

Anahata

Above all, June Of 44 sound serious. There's nothing remotely enjoyable about jolting, awkward time-signatures, and that's just the way they like it....

Flatlands

Maturity rarely belongs in pop music. Dr Robert was the singer in minor modernist chart sensations The Blow Monkeys, one of the reasons the...

Wild, Wonderful… Purgatory

Heavy metal has, too often, been a case of great music, shame about the singer. It's been true since the cod-poetic warblings of erstwhile-hippy...

The Principles Of Science

Experimentalists who give the raw elements of mountain music an avant-garde twist, Montreal outfit Sackville hover like dazed buzzards over their chosen terrain. Parched...

Sixpence None The Richer

When a band's press release talks of 'pivotal endorsements' and 'artist development' you instinctively understand what side of the corporate fence they are on....

The Fidelity Wars

Girls, they permeate Hefner's songs like cheap perfume. Girls with cigarettes, lounging in unmade beds. Girls who drink whiskey. Girls who never, ever love...

Feeling Strangely Fine

Minneapolis' Semisonic are not of this world. Theirs is one where Hall & Oates, Crowded House and FM radio rule supreme, and where Nirvana...

Her Wallpaper Reverie

According to Apples main man Robert Schneider, this record by one of America's most critically praised pop outfits is "less 'Sgt Pepper' than...

Vertigo

Midsummer. Saturday afternoon. You and your buddies park up your runabout old bangers in the middle of the big city and you lay...
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