Breed 77’s second album is a metal album in the classic mould. The chugging guitars take brief breaks for the overly complex guitar solos which both combine with the (occasionally comical) screaming vocals. The whole is tinged with sadness, propelled by anger and confusion. The only deviation from the classic rock mould comes from the […]

Beth Orton’s fourth album and will be a welcome addition to the libraries of the legion of fans she has built up over the last decade or so. All, bar one of the tracks, are self penned with the exception being the title track which is a collaboration with Jim O’Rourke (producer and Sonic Youth […]

Broken Social Scene are a large ensemble of Canadian musicians, may of whom have other projects, whose last album You Forgot It in People is credited by some as the release that opened the floodgates for the recent crop Canadian bands to be noticed internationally. Their sound borders on undefinable as the seventeen strong crew […]

The much anticipated album from Babyshambles, given a mighty boost in the world’s general awareness by Pete Doherty’s drug problems, relationship problems, etc. I was listening about him before I decided to check out his music and I got a shock. The shock was the kind you’d get if Tom Jones started singing reggae, or […]

The Beauty Shop (aka John Hoeffleur) play a noirish Americana that has a jauntiness in the tune that acts to cover the sometimes darker lyrics. The contrast works well and the songs here have attitude and catchiness a plenty.
While they are already a couple of albums old in their native Illinois the UK is given […]

The title track of the latest release from the Brakes launches forth at you with riffs that remind me of the Sex Pistols and then the full force hits in indie rock fashion. Then it stops, it isn’t even two minutes long. But then that is the Brakes all round, they are short, sweet, punchy […]

Two More Years is a jaunty and polished little indie-pop nugget. The leering and slightly cracked vocals along with the persistent driving pace throughout give it an energy that is tempered by the sedate chorus. This balance makes it a track that will be loved by the wannabe singer and dancefloor fiend alike.
Label: Wichita Recordings
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Disappointing album from the kings of juvenile rock

I must admit that Bloc Party have largely passed me by, something I am going to have to set straight if reworkings are anything to go by. Silent Alarm has been taken apart and reassembled by an impressive and sometimes unlikely set of artists and DJ’s. Starting with the ever fantastic Ladytron doing their best […]

I am not the greatest Babyshambles fan, and I have to say that Fuck Forever hasn’t converted me to the cause. It is a perfectly alright track. But that really is it, it’s ‘alright’. Lyrically it is stuck in the sixth form and musically is hasn’t anything to get your teeth into and nothing to […]