The Darkness // Hot Cakes
"Punk and classic rock cross-over, it’s like the love child of Kiss and Sid vicious."
Plan B // iLL Manors
"Despite being a horrific album, subject wise, it’s sickeningly good. It’s a charming change to listen to album that MEANS something, that cuts deep, that makes you sit up and listen."
The Heartbreaks // Funtimes
"It’s all far too fast, frantic and repetitive, resulting in them creating a real marshmallow of a sound..."
Kaiser Chiefs // Souvenir: The Singles 2004-2012
Listening to ‘Souvenir’ is like sitting in your favourite bar with Ricky Wilson and the rest of the Leeds likely lads, reminiscing about the good times.
ALT-J // An Awesome Wave LP
Newman’s sighs between singing makes ‘Bloodflood’ sound creepy and like a panic attack during an acid trip.
The Flaming Lips // The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
"How did the conversation with Ke$ha even come about?! A casual chat over a goblet of blood?"
Ceremony // Safranin Sounds
"What sounds like The Jesus And The Mary Chain playing out of the right-hand speaker and Kraftwerk out of the left just becomes too much..."
Delilah // From the Roots Up
"Delilah has a super-cool vocal, a product of London town and music industry parents and a keen ear for songwriting too..."
Luke White // Outside In
"Get a little closer for there is a great new British talent walking our streets..."
Tom Jones // Spirit in the Room
"The final track and also the brightest moment, with its spine chilling choral finale, it is quite simply stunning"
Skinny Lister // Forge & Flagon
"By being recorded in a studio somewhere the nuanced vocals and the gutsy feeling of the whole thing is compromised."
Evans The Death // Evans The Death
"The combination of the hazy instrumentation over the poppy rhythms is great, and with Katherine Whitaker’s intriguing vocals topping it off they’ve certainly found their place..."
The Cult // Choice Of Weapon
"The Cult of 2012 sound like a super band with a Cornell/Bowie hybrid front man."
Ultravox // Brilliant
"They have decided to join the ranks of musicians reforming in this the 21st century of our world; it’s pretty awful, people."
Levellers // Static On The Airwaves
“‘Static on the Airwaves’ makes no hesitation at ripping the plaster off an ailing Britain…”
Patti Smith // Banga
“It’s a strange old mix of songs, at times jazzy and light, at others rocky and mystical…”
Project X OST // Various Artists
“The overall feel of the album does well to recreate the feel of the film; loud, hot, sweaty and violent…”
Sigur Ros // Valtari
"The instrumentation is gorgeous, and there’s even an unexpected hint of Godspeed you! Black Emperor in track 3 to tantalise your ears."
The Temper Trap // The Temper Trap
"If this album is ‘them’, they are confident, flexible, dramatic and sensitive all at the same time"
Damon Albarn // Dr Dee
"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
Chris Isaak // Beyond the Sun
"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...
School of Seven Bells // Ghostory
"Music that wouldn’t sound out of place from downtown New York clubs to the soundtrack of a trippy Skins episode..."
Sean Paul // Tomahawk Technique
"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."
Cancer Bats // Dead Set on Living
"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."
Graham Coxon // A&E
We have something that’s quite thoughtful, ploddy and dark in paces, as well as times of manic repetitious desperation and occasional pop riffs.
Maps & Atlases // Beware and Be Grateful
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'.
Pinkunoizu // Free Time!
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 // ’93 – ’03 Ultimate Collector’s Boxset
Reef present to us the 10 years that will always live on…
Paul Kelly // Songs From The South
From his home Country via ‘St Kilda To Kings Cross’ this well heeled troubadour is bound to get a warm reception...
Deeder Zaman aka Rebel Uprising // Pride of the Underdog
I would summarise it in great detail as a reggae/dub album that never really gets started.
R.E.M // Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011
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.
Naughty by Nature // Anthem Inc
Did you know that the Naughty by Nature bwoys have been going for 20 years? Holy hip hop.
InMe // The Pride
The songs manage to create a welcome illusion of something larger with their harmonious layers...
Estelle // All of Me
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.
The Ting Tings // Sounds from Nowheresville
"...ballad-like power chords, hip-hop, punk and indie to name a few styles represented."
Sound of Guns // Angels and Demons
These lads are big, they’re staying big and they’re only gonna get bigger, so check them out!
Breton // Other People's Problems
It’s disjointed but brilliantly rhythmic; it’s filthy sounding but sonically beautiful...
Field Music // Plumb
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...
Alabama 3 // Shoplifting 4 Jesus
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...
Young Guns // Bones
In this world of auto-tune and X-factor, some people still have the talent to produce such passionate and stunning songs...
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