Apr 23 2007 Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir
Brilliant Swedish sunshine pop
Apr 12 2004 Beta Band - Heroes To Zeros
Across their previous three albums (if you count The Three EP’s as an album, which I do), The Beta Band have amazed and confused fans from all across the music world. One thing that most agree on is that the band need to be seen live and that their recordings don’t capture what happens when […]
Mar 4 2002 Athlete - The Athlete EP
Wow! At first I thought this was going to be a bit boring. The intro of Westside is very slow and quiet but then it breaks into something that sounds vaguely hip-hop influenced and funky, defying its chorus of, “everywhere you go, everyone wants to be part of the rock scene.”
Dungeness is a strange affair; […]
Jul 16 2001 The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
I have had the great pleasure of hearing Hot Shots II, the new album by the Beta Band. From the off (starting with the fantastic Squares; The original choice for a first single that was pulled as it uses the same sample as I Monster’s latest single - And as such sounds very similar.) this […]
Jul 27 2000 Brothers In Sound - Family Is For Sharing
No, this is not a Bee Gees for the new Millennium, nor is it the new Sister Sledge. This is an album of darkly optimistic Electronica.
Every track is fantastically constructed and manages to mix dark sounds with light sounds to produce songs that totally immerse you. During each track you find yourself drifting off into […]
Oct 1 1999 The Beta Band - The Beta Band
If it’s weird you want then look no further than the Beta Band. They are weirder than a truly weird thing on a day wen it’s feeling really weird.
It’s been two years since their first release so why it’s taken them so long to get round to recording their debut album is beyond me. I […]
