Albums // Singles

Ah it appears the curse of the dreaded second album has struck again. How many artists can honestly say their first album isn't their best? A whole lifetime of experience and inspiration is thrown into that debut gem, so when it comes around to making their sophomore offering baying record execs and hungry fans need to be sat...[more]

Gossip return with their fifth studio album A Joyful Noise, and they do not disappoint. The band were joined on production for this album by Xenomania founder Brian Higgins, well know for producing singles by girlband Girls Aloud, and you can really hear the difference between this and their previous albums. You may thin...[more]

Remember that first wave of Best Coast singles? Great songs all, whose brevity and lack of pretensi...[more]

Nineties rock band Garbage have returned with their fifth studio album, which also happens to be their first in more than seven years. It may not feel like its been seven years, but sadly some of us have been sat in a world for nearly a decade where the only garbage around is the sort you'd throw away. However, it has to be s...[more]

You can tell that DZ Deathrays have been listening to Pulled Apart By Horses. Bloodstreams, a title inspired by Mötley Crüe's autobiography, is filled with the raucous, heavy rock riffs and throaty shouting the Leeds band have purveyed recently. But Bloodstreams is by no means a...[more]

Tigercats are everything you could hope to hate about East London's indie scene, turned up to good. The group is completely steeped in the conventions and lore of their stomping ground and their record provides a soundtrack to a summer in the dives and dumps of Dalston. The group is based around Dun...[more]

OFF! are a collective of some of hardcore's finest ever exponents: Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Hot Snakes/Earthless/Rocket From the Crypt).

Together, they rifle through 16 songs in 16 minutes, which to most mere mortals is si...[more]

Danny Coughlan is Crybaby, simple as that really. No frills or need to dress it up in any other way. Armed with his plaintive but soulful voice and his penchant for all things classic 50s/60s, he delivers his heart and soul on this his eponymous album.

Coughlan raids the simplicity of Buddy Holly's arrangements, the sm...[more]

Nowadays, when people hear of The Proclaimers, their memories turn to Peter Kay and Matt Lucas' use of '500 Miles' for Comic Relief. However, the brothers Reid are far more than just a comic pair themselves (despite their resemblance to Frankie Boyle), often producing melodic ditties in the mould of the delightful more]

Its been three years since Marilyn Manson released his last album and Born Villain, his eighth studio album, has been in the works for a good two years. Overall, the album sounds like the sort of product you would expect from Manson by now after nearly two decades in the music business, filled with great rock beats and b...[more]