Released: 2014. Review originally published March 31st, 2014 Not many groups made it out of the mid noughties indie resurrection … More
Category: Reviews – 2010’s Releases
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending Review
Given that their last album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions was created out of the band’s near demise, the … More
Wild Beasts – Last Night All My Dreams Came True review
It’s rare that you get to choose the terms of your own exit; in the case of Wild Beasts it’s … More
Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us Review
Recently New Zealand based website The Spinoff published a lengthy piece on what as they saw it was the recalibration … More
Hookworms – Microshift review
Sometimes it’s hard to spot the join in artist’s careers, the definitive moments in which they shed a skin and … More
Nick J.D.Hodgson – Tell Your Friends Review
Sometimes the prodigal son motifs just don’t quite fit; when Nick Hodgson left the Kaiser Chiefs – the band with … More
Shame – Songs of Praise Review
What with the music industry just returning to growth after years of declining revenues it’s unlikely that it’s going to … More
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Young Adult Review
No longer the fresh-faced strummer of his 2006 debut The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager, now thirty something Sam Duckworth … More
Weekender #1 – Arctic Monkeys : Favourite Worst Nightmare
All your bags are packed, you’re ready to go – right? Weekends are the time for shaking off the grind … More
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
“Acerbic screen grabs of the viscerality of millions of people’s real lives bringing the fuzz of existence in the gap between working proper and jobbing, school and ASBO’s and the feeling of being better off permanently anaesthetised into a relief so sharp it was like a one band manifesto.”
The Voice Of Unreason 