My Dying Bride // A Map Of All Our Failures
Their newest album, 'A Map Of All Our Failures', is typical of the Yorkshire group's material - solemn, epic and heavily layered - a perfect example of what 'doom metal' should be.
Lau // Race the Loser
This isn’t an album for folk lovers, this is an album for music lovers and not only deserves but manages to command your full attention when listening to it.
Breathless // Green to Blue
This is by no means a bad record, the stark melancholy of some of the tracks is really quite beautiful...
Dog Is Dead // All our Favourite Stories
"‘All our Favourite Stories’ is nothing Mumford and Sons, Arcade Fire, Noah and the Whale and Alt-J haven’t conquered before."
Godspeed You! Black Emperor // Allelulujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Pavlis ascends but doesn't bend with GY!BE.
The Unthanks // Diversions Vol 3
The Unthanks sing songs from the shipyards
The Lovely Eggs // Wildlife
The Lovely Eggs present Wildlife
Seeker Lover Keeper // Seeker Lover Keeper
Underlined with unease, an eerie quality hidden behind a thick wall of notes and vocals. Like coming home to an unlocked door.
Paul Heaton // Presents the 8th
Heaton the smoking woman’s crumpet, the working / thinking man’s idea of a proper bloke might just have delivered the white man’s answer to ‘What’s Going On’?
The Chrysalids // Neither Love Nor Money
It is pleasant enough, but certainly nothing new to get too excited about. Nothing more than a Scott Walker tribute band.
Candidate // Psychic Dissonance From The Unself
"Eventually to be consigned to a wooden chest labelled ‘Derivatives’, they share their fleeting success with plenty of other bands..."
Princess Chelsea // Lil' Golden Book
Promising a dark twist on Disney classics, Princess Chelsea is an unlikely candidate for any magical soundtrack.
The Blind Hearts // Crying Shame
"It’s mainstream Ameriana at its best; the type of record that gets stuck in your head without you even realising it."
Dogan Mehmet // Outlandish
One for fans of the Mumfords and world music...
Billy Talent // Dead Silence
For an album called ‘Dead Silence’, Billy Talent’s newest offering is the very opposite. Irony maybe?
Stalking Horses // Specters
The new melancholy kids on the block Stalking Horses bring you their debut album Specters, chockablock full of ambience, electronica, and a very British ‘dead-end street’ message.
Yeasayer // Fragrant World
Over their three studio releases Yeasayer have definitely travelled on an exponentially poppier path, with ‘Fragrant World’ not only being their most recent, but also their most accessible work.
The Heartbreaks // Funtimes
Could this be the new McFly?
Milk Maid // Mostly No
"The album is as abrasive as a crocodile crotch cloth." Hmm...
Infants // Giant Leg
On first listen the totally bat shit sonics on the record provide a pleasant regression to the simple world of underage drinking and poppers.
Geva Alon // In The Morning Light
While Geva Alon sounds like the kind of made-up “active ingredient” they feature in L’Oréal adverts, there is nothing active about the start of this album.
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly // Maps
Ellie reviews the latest album from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun // Death
Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun's folk/punk fusion - is it a combination that can work for a whole album?
The See See // Fountayne Mountain
West Coast psychedelic country rock from Detroit, Aukland, Malmo and Leeds, not feeling the Love.
Toy // Toy
The debut album from the Horrors approved Toy. Anyone for a game of "spot the indie/alternative influence"?
Woodpecker Wooliams // The Bird School of Being Human
"Apparently each of the songs ‘came via a bird that had a story to tell’. Forgive me if I seem a little cynical..."
Mike Doughty // The Question Jar Show
A Slightly hungover Jack Johnson.
The Beach Boys // That's Why God Made The Radio
The Beach Boys, 50 years on...
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..."
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