My Passion have sneaked into Robert Smith’s house and stolen the style of his 1983 to 1987 pop songs and […]
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Transportation has been a dream of sci-fi fans ever since the words “Beam me up, Scotty” were first uttered. So […]
‘We Are Youth’ hits you straight away with a dominant drum beat then suddenly erupts into a wild guitar frenzy. […]
Someone managed to describe Attica State as: “The Beatles with more power and distortion.” I wouldn’t normally name names, but […]
Kennedy Sunday no longer exists. Rebranded and renamed as Armies of You, they’ve left their previous incarnation behind and embarked […]
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this song. For whatever reason, Simon Kent has semi-ditched the Pillo band name, […]
If the name Tartrazine evokes to you images of a fanzine devoted to dominatrixes then don’t worry, you are not […]
Hitting you straight away with an energetic indie vibe, ‘Backfire At The Disco’ is full of life. This is an […]
Making the combination of cello and banjo sound like a combination of Passenger, Captain and Nizlopi, My Little Problem craft […]
Ufomammut have already written this review for me, and quite succinctly: ‘repetitious heavy metal sounds’. Not just a lyric on […]
Dark, brooding and dense, this album is the antithesis of all that annoying happy-go-lucky indie pop in the charts at […]
With all the profit earned from selling Kick Back The Rug And Everybody Dance going to Make a Wish foundation, […]
You only need to spot the fact that Kruzenshtern and Prohod are on this record to know you’re in for […]
Why on Earth is the mag still talking about Nerina Pallot when she’s clearly doing very well for herself? She’s […]
Throwing you in at the deep end ‘Attention’ has an aggressive and moody sound which is performed in a strict […]
From the very first guitar slide of ‘The Town and The City’, to the last plaintive keyboard note of ‘Last […]
Look at the band name written above. What do you presume this music will be like from that? Well, you’ll […]
The Psychotic Reaction are a band that hover between an affable cheeky speaky-voiced style and an irritatingly accented vocal, with […]
Johnny4 build ‘Mr Savage’ up quite quickly from sparse indie to symphonic rock with ever-increasing echoes in the background and […]
It’s Sunday, I’ve fully recovered now from a bout of excessive vodka drinking, been into town to do some shopping […]
If you take Brian Molko’s vocal and Scarlet Soho’s electronic wizardry you end up with the funky twisted sounds of […]
There is a moment on this album (somewhere around the first chorus of ‘Out of the Question’ – think Snow […]
In a package delivered to me by some bloke on the back of a unicorn drinking home-brew cider, I got […]
Album number four ‘Puzzle’ has seen Biffy start to move even further from the darlings of the underground into a […]