“Bombarding the listener with pristine, bloody wake and sub-bass, it seemed designed specifically to be consumed amongst a crowd of three thousand wide-eyed, sweat soaked people on the verge of blitzkreig’d emotional and spiritual exhaustion.”
Author: arcticreviewsblog
Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever review
“At times, it’s breathless and brilliant, from the screeching, larynx grating Men’s Needs to the Strokes-with-a-purpose of Major’s Tilting Victory”
The Killers – Sam’s Town
“Sam’s Town bore testament that singer Brandon Flowers had a new muse – the vast, bombastic, wrong, epic vista of his own country.”
Happy Mondays – Bummed review
“It’s the sound of drugs, work-hating lethargy, nefariousness with no direct victim and a life on the trainered hoof that required fingers in lots of dirty, dirty pies.”
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
“For Kasabian it seemed, the last train to predictability had already left the station.”
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
“On their mettle, Hung and Power are Jackson Pollock in producer form, grappling with the abstract and going where the narcotics take them.”
Les Savvy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends
“It’s left to the pounding chaos of Rage In The Plague Age with it’s triumphant valedictory “Draw up the draw bridge, draw down the blinds, everyone in here’s getting high tonight” to enunciate what they’re all about.”
Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown review
“This then was the landscape of Dick’s A Scanner Darkly set to music; Kirk’s sibilant vocals, devoid of tone or melody bearing the inhuman quality of a mendacious autopilot. “
Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
“Yours Truly…is as much of an improvement as it had to be, both musically and spiritually and comes equipped with a healthy dose of much-needed closing time realism.”
Metro Area – Metro Area review
“Metro Area is funkier than Prince jamming with George Clinton and contains a panoply of liberally mixed cultural props and metaphors drawn from diverse ports such as original NYC B-Boy street and flamenco.”
The Voice Of Unreason 