Music Reviews
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder
As the indie rock success story of 2005, expectations for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's second full length were always going to be high. But were they too high?
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RJD2 The Third Hand
What do you get when a hip hop uber-producer tries to break himself through to the big time? I don't know the answer, it wasn't a joke, but maybe ask a man called Ramble John Krohn - RJD2 to his mum.
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Field Music Tones of Town
Consistency is the hobgoblin, etc? Sometimes it's redemption
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Erin McKeown Sing you Sinners
The singer songwriter's cover album is usually an interesting affair. Erin McKeown bucks the trend with a self-indulgent album of standards that is flat at best, and at its worst, gratingly smug.
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The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
The Hold Steady's third LP is its best. It is a defining achievement the band will have trouble topping in the future.
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Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Now that he's confessing, will we finally figure out Kevin Barnes? Are you kidding?
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Ormondroyd Hit & Hope
Sheffield's finest shoegazers release their debut album this month through Hackpen Records.
David Coleman reviews... -
Klaxons Myths of the Near Future
Already one of the most talked about records of 2007, the debut album from London's Klaxons is rapidly becoming the most polarising.
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Bobby Conn King For A Day
Bobby Conn's latest solo effort is concept album dealing with life and death and all strangeness that comes within.
Peter Hayward reviews... -
Kristin Hersh Learn to Sing Like a Star
Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave leader Kristin Hersh returns with another notable solo offering.
D.C. Harrison reviews...