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"Applecarts’, possibly one of my favourite songs ever already, is the most lovely, birdsongy, gentle and folky piece you will ever hear..." - Lizz reviews the new Albarn LP
"Mr Isaak’s balls sadly are not on fire as he plays some truly unwicked games with some of the greatest classics ever recorded in the history of popular music." - Chris Isaak misses the mark for Outline's Steve Plunkett...
"Music that wouldn’t sound out of place from downtown New York clubs to the soundtrack of a trippy Skins episode..."
"Sean Paul is at his best when he’s summoning the unstoppable rhythms of dancehall music, causing booties across the globe to give the junk inside they trunks a heft reshuffle."
"The stand out track for me would have to be the album’s second offering, ‘Bricks & Mortar’. The track really helped cement my love for this frankly fantastic record, pun very much intended."
We have something that’s quite thoughtful, ploddy and dark in paces, as well as times of manic repetitious desperation and occasional pop riffs.
You can just as easily be thrown into a hula world of calypso-type music out of nowhere, as in 'Silver Self' or into the Mexican tinged landscape you find in 'Bugs'.
This album is lo-fi, experimental, multi-layered, sparse and rich all at the same time and gets away with it in a way that not many could.
Reef present to us the 10 years that will always live on…
I would summarise it in great detail as a reggae/dub album that never really gets started.
From his home Country via ‘St Kilda To Kings Cross’ this well heeled troubadour is bound to get a warm reception...
All you have to do is look at the track listing to make your life-changing decision as to whether this constitutes pennies well spent.
Did you know that the Naughty by Nature bwoys have been going for 20 years? Holy hip hop.
The songs manage to create a welcome illusion of something larger with their harmonious layers...
She cuts the figure of an international superstar – quite literally on ‘International (Serious), a jet-setter with America in large part, picking up the bill for her air miles.
"...ballad-like power chords, hip-hop, punk and indie to name a few styles represented."
These lads are big, they’re staying big and they’re only gonna get bigger, so check them out!
It’s disjointed but brilliantly rhythmic; it’s filthy sounding but sonically beautiful...
This is what Steely Dan would sound like if they started afresh in 2012. Orchestral at times, at others sounding a bit like The Feeling...
The heavy beats, the variety of sounds and pace throughout this album are like something I haven’t heard for a long time, something innovative, brave and...dare I say it, fun and unpretentious...
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