Music: Albums

  • Plastic Beach Gorillaz

    Friday 12 March, 2010 Plastic Beach

    Upon first seeing the cover for Damon Albarn’s third album at the helm of his …

  • Lights Ellie Goulding

    Friday 12 March, 2010 Lights

    Within the past year, the British music industry has been subject to an influx of …

  • Good Morning Mother Stars And Sons

    Friday 12 March, 2010 Good Morning Mother

    Unique. Piano-pop. Brash, intelligent indie-pop. The truth is, it’s pretty hard to place Stars and …

  • Some Kind Of Salvation The Features

    Friday 12 March, 2010 Some Kind Of Salvation

    Having been championed by Kings of Leon to the point of their being the first …

  • Black Sands Bonobo

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 Black Sands

    The biggest problem facing me when writing this article was how exactly do you classify …

  • The Weekend: Friday Forever The Sickest Kids

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 The Weekend: Friday

    I have to admit that Forever the Sickest Kids are a guilty pleasure of mine; …

  • One Life Stand Hot Chip

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 One Life Stand

    Hot Chip’s fourth album One Life Stand has been eagerly anticipated after the critical acclaim …

  • Losing Sleep Parachute

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 Losing Sleep

    Parachute: coming to a radio-station near you. Or at least, they should be. Losing Sleep …

  • Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You Lightspeed Champion

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You

    Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You continues where Devonté Hynes left off after releasing …

  • Boo Dag För Dag

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 Boo

    Boo is the debut album of the Swedish two piece Dag För Dag. The band …

  • Falcon The Courteeners

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 Falcon

    It’s been a long wait for The Courteeners’ devoted fans since the band’s debut album …

  • For The Masses Hadouken!

    Tuesday 23 February, 2010 For The Masses

    Hadouken! are by no doubt the most ridiculous band ever to have released an album …

  • Hold Me Down You Me At Six

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Hold Me Down

    Upon first hearing You Me At Six a few years back, two things immediately occurred …

  • Persistence in this Game Straight Lines

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Persistence in this Game

    You can be forgiven for having never heard of Straight Lines; despite having supported the …

  • The Logic of Chance Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

    Friday 12 February, 2010 The Logic of Chance

    Last time I took a listen to Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip it was …

  • Transference Spoon

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Transference

    As soon as the album begins the haunting synth of ‘Before Destruction’sets the stage for …

  • Teen Dream Beach House

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Teen Dream

    In the last issue I was imploring you all to take notice of John Hughes …

  • The Shadow of an Empire Fionn Regan

    Friday 12 February, 2010 The Shadow of an Empire

    Protection Racket’, the first single and opening song of The Shadow of an Empire, would …

  • Of The Blue Colour of the Sky Ok Go

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Of The Blue Colour of the Sky

    Propelled to the dizzying heights of stardom through the viral success of their endlessly parodied …

  • Contra Vampire Weekend

    Friday 12 February, 2010 Contra

    Vampire Weekend probably shouldn’t be famous. Four implausibly preppy kids from New England with a …

  • Hounds of Love Kate Bush

    Thursday 11 February, 2010 Hounds of Love

    This isn’t about us. The greatest pop reconfigures your nervous system, implants false memories, but …

  • The Prester John Sessions Tommy T

    Thursday 11 February, 2010 The Prester John Sessions

    Tommy T is best known as Gogol Bordello’s Ethiopian bassist. Along with his Abyssinia Roots …

  • Marlene Lightspeed Champion

    Thursday 11 February, 2010 Marlene

    Listening to Lightspeed Champion’s new single, and the songs released with it, got me thinking …

  • My Dinosaur Life Motion City Soundtrack

    Thursday 11 February, 2010 My Dinosaur Life

    When Motion City Soundtrack finally signed to a major label in 2006, their fans could …

  • Raditude Weezer

    Monday 23 November, 2009 Raditude

    An examination of Weezer’s back catalogue reveals a band struck by some kind of music schizophrenia.

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Features

  • Battle of the Bands Heat Two

    Saturday 13 February, 2010

    The second chapter of BandSoc’s annual competition rolled around last week, maintaining the unusually high standard set by heat one

  • Who said Grime doesn’t pay?

    Friday 12 February, 2010

    The current British music scene is fertile ground, and British youth culture, for want of …

Live

  • Xiu Xiu Taylor John's House, Coventry

    Friday 12 March, 2010

    It’s a matter of love, first of all. Xiu Xiu, the Oakland-based project centred around …

  • Rolo Tomassi The Flapper, Birmingham

    Thursday 11 February, 2010

    Jealous is an understatement. Pretty much every member of Rolo Tomassi is younger, hotter, and …