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For a band who often specialised in producing the sort of creative curveballs which would see their grandmother reading love-letters over a queasy collage of squelching synths, The Fiery Furnaces always had an unerring knack for a classic melody, something singer Eleanor Friedberger has carried over int...[more]
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By the end of 'Blood, Sweat and Tears' on The D.O.T.'s second album Diary, we know where the rest of the album is heading. Unfortunately, it's an album which offers very little in terms of real inspiration and quality from two musicians who have genuine fanbases and plenty of respect in the industry. Rob ...[more]
7.5
So much has changed for Queens of The Stone Age since they set pulses racing with the phenomenal Songs for the Deaf. Not that they didn't have two decent albums before and after that, ut the 2002 release saw the alignment of Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan and Dave Grohl - a hard album to beat. ...Like Clo...[more]
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People are saying The Child of Lov, aka Dutch weirdy Cole Williams, sounds like Prince. What he actually sounds like is an extremely white man, possibly the whitest man who has ever lived, doing a not very good piss-take of the Purple Genius. His strangulated, horny-cat-with-nuts-in-a-vice singing voice...[more]
8.5
Alt-R&B really is having a field day. Since the beginning of the year we've had important releases from Autre Ne Veut, inc., Stubborn Heart, James Blake and Majical Cloudz, to name a few. And this is all blending quite nicely with the post-dubstep tag which is being applied to pretty much anything which includes the sligh...[more]
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8
I have a confession; Touch My Rash make me want to touch their rash, if they have one, which, putting aside my vow not to wish horrible medical complications or chronic conditions on anyone, I hope they have because, if they do, I just know it is a glorious, textured rash of many shades, colours and styles of ooze... In a good wa...[more]
8
When listening to any of Scout Niblett's albums, from her debut Sweet Heart Fever to this, her sixth album, the listener is made to feel like a voyeur. There's an intimacy and rawness to her music which makes one feel as though these songs are being heard by accident, perhaps stumbling into a cabin in the woods a...[more]
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Tricky's new album has been touted as a sequel of sorts to his legendary debut, Maxinquaye. You can see why. Many tracks have the same loping, stoned paranoiac vibe which Tricky all but patented on that record. Since this is Tricky's 10th album in a career during which he's often seem...[more]
7.5
Cherry Red have released a huge, sprawling retrospective of one of the 20th century's most maligned decades, the 80s - where you might have seen Top of the Pops full of OMD, Eurythmics and MTV heaving to the sounds of Madonna and Run DMC. Meanwhile, all over Britain, men and women with messy hair and jangly ...[more]
8.5
The other day I watched as, one-by-one, parking inspectors flocked across the street. Who knows what strange force drew them together to coagulate, chattering and cackling with laughter, but gather they did, circling around a lamp post and blocking up the pavement so that unfortunate schoolchildren had to squeeze past them on the...[more]
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