REVIEWS
Album reviews
"We know we belong to the land / And the land we belong to is grand! / Oklahoma!"
“When things aren’t going quite as planned / You often hear the truth from your family and friends...”
Almost exactly two years ago, in reviewing Florence and the Machine’s debut LP, this writer surmised...
In case you've been in a coma for the past few years, the eighties have come back into fashion in music in a big way - or, to put it another way, they have put the ‘fashion’ back into...
Listening to Belfast's Cashier No.9, it’s hard to believe that frontman Danny Todd once plied his trade as one-third of mid-noughties electro rockers...
After the hit-and-miss mishmash of an album that was 2008's Evil Urges, it seemed almost impossible to guess which direction...
It’s been more than three years since Glaswegian quartet Sons & Daughters released their third album, the Bernard Butler-produced ...
Let's face it, there's just something about good instrumental soundscape records that has the ability to send your mind off tangentially, transforming the mundane into something a bit more magical...
Arctic Monkeys’ third LP, 2009's Josh Homme-aided Humbug, wasn’t to everyone’s liking. Its move away from bouncy pop and into lumbering stoner-rock territory lost the band a sizeable chunk of...
Caught live
As the tagline of Guy Maddin's 2007 'docu-fantasia' masterpiece, My Winnepeg, proclaims: "The truth is relative". This is the...
Sunday brings me (in no particular order) bowling, a roast, an emo-ta-tha-bone beach, basketball,...
Saturday at ATP tells me this: Minehead does not possess a single mobile phone shop, or anywhere that might repair your car after midday at weekends. It does, however, have a lot of charity shops,...
Just over a year ago, Little Dragon performed at Dublin's Crawdaddy to an audience of not much more than a dozen punters. This evening, by contrast, havin...
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Well-read Northerners – and recent Lady Gaga remixers – ...
There has always been a sense of fragility attached to The Antlers, as if at any moment the band's material (and perhaps even the band members t...
The Siskiyou Mountains sit on California’s northern border with Oregon, enveloping the sleepy county seat and former mining town of Yreka. Just as so many shattered dreams ultimately sprang f...
As Wilco brought their recent UK tour to North London for the first of two back-to-back dates in the capital,...
Sunday kicks off with a 'secret' breakfast set at the bowling lanes from...
