“Kelly Jones character sketch obsession with the real is almost classicist and always relevant, never more so than on opener A Thousand Trees.”
The Weeknd – Thursday
“Tesfaye has previously cameo’d as a kind of Stringer Bell character, a despicable thug-misognyst with an unspecified higher intellectual calling that demands redemption.”
The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
“Gradually light begins to separate from black night; Land Of The Bloody Unknown picks the bones from an ethereal banjo, whilst Hunger Song is a piece of strident hoe-down on which the eight piece remind us that cowboys didn’t just come from Montana.”
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
“Allan becomes the subject of his songs so totally, he absorbs them in a form of method acting that is an instinct that can’t be taught.”
Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche ’85 review
“Was this merely pop as a meaningless science project with no more merit than pulling the legs off a hapless spider?”
CJ Bolland – The Analogue Theatre review
“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.”
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.”
The Voice Of Unreason 