Albums // Singles

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]

The Futureheads have always been a band known for their vocal harmonies, mixed among their slightly raucous, punk-tinged indie songs. Rant, however, is something totally different, in that it is purely a cappella, no edgy guitar parts, just vocal arrangements and, well, rants.

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It's practically 12 months ago to the day that I interviewed The Heartbreaks and they promised me (and everyone else, of course) that their album would be out within a year. Give or take a week or so, they've lived up to that promise. And it's something that these guys always seem to have done - live up to promises.more]

Sacramento's Death Grips don't go out of their way to be likeable, or even listenable really. Whether you like them will depend on how much you enjoy extreme noise made by posturing, heavily tattooed men who look and sound like they could wrap a bike chain round your neck soon as say 'hello&...[more]

You wait two decades for an album and three come at once. Well, not exactly. After 21 long years, interjected by a couple of cover versions and several false starts, Kevin Shields is finally unleashing remastered versions of the seminal Isn'...[more]