Album Reviews

As I listen to Damien Rice’s latest album I have to remind myself that this is only his 3rd full length album.  How can one artist seem so prolific after releasing just 3 albums in […]

Sheffield England’s next great band, The High Hazels have release their first full length album, the self titled High Hazels. The band stylings has been likened to bands like  Joy Division, The Smiths, Radiohead, The […]

Safe money in the late 1990’s would never have bet that The Brian Jonestown Massacre would still exist or would be releasing new music in the 2010’s. The famously volatile band had massive skills and […]

Ska/Punk practitioners, The Talks are releasing their first full length album, Commoners, Peers, Drunks and Thieves on November 24, 2014.  The young group is following up their well received 2013 EP Westsinister.  That EP yielded […]

Hindu Milk is Machines In Heaven’s first release since their outstanding debut album bordersbreakdown. Since that album came out, the band’s reputation has grown and grown, so much so that the NME recently pointed them […]

The Godfathers of Electronic rock have been no strangers to live recordings and DVD’s accompanying their sell out World tours throughout the years and have a pretty impressive  live release catalogue to browse through, if […]

TV On The Radio are a peculiar beast. Their output has always, rightly, been critically acclaimed, but I’ve always felt they’ve been too reticent in places, masking some extraordinary tunes in too much sonic camouflage, always leaving a […]

Birmingham indie four piece Superfood bring us some 90’s nostalgia with their debut effort the upbeat Don’t Say That. The familiar 90’s baggy sound has been making a comeback over the past few years with […]

BRIT and Mercury Award nominee Ben Howard released his 2nd full length album, I Forget Where We Were, in October.  The album quickly found a place on the UK album charts.  I Forget Where We […]

Amidst the rubble of Nirvana’s ruin, multi-instrumentalist and world’s coolest dude, Dave Grohl emerged from the drum set to form the Foo Fighters in 1995. Many a heated discussion has been held about whether the […]

Its been an exhausting year to date for Rob Bradley and Mark Bebb who make up Welsh EDM duo Shelter, first with their highly infectious collaboration iPop with Pop legend Andy Bell to further musical […]

They say everything old is new again. These days Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and the other members of Simple Minds could attest to that truism. Simple Minds is in the midst of a musical renaissance. […]

The Coral have been on hiatus a while now since their last album from 2010 The Butterfly House. This ‘new’ album is a collection of lost songs from the period between The Invisible Invasion and […]

The easiest thing to do when reviewing an album is to call the subject of your piece “A classic” or “A landmark” and all those other easy to trot out inanities. The fact is, very […]

Springtime Carnivore aka Greta Morgan is releasing her self titled debut album on November 3, 2014. The release is a Lo Fi disk made in the spirit of the Northwest music scene DIY culture. Springtime […]

New Build’s debut album, Yesterday Was Loved And Lost, was a joyous thing filled to the brim with supremely catchy tunes and featuring Do You Not Feel Loved? which remains and will remain one of […]

Manchester’s Inspiral Carpets return with their self-titled new album and the first since Devil Hopping 20 years ago. Since then Singer Tom Hingley has left and been replaced by original vocalist and co-founder Stephen Holt. […]

As soon as you hear There’s A Girl In The Corner, the opening track on The Twilight Sad’s third album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, you are instantly immersed in […]