Music Reviews
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Various Artists Jonny Greenwood Is The Controller
Radiohead's chief tech-head in credible reggae compilation shocker? It's crazy, but it just might work.
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The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
With a dark, dense and sensual fabricwork, The Besnard Lakes burgeon onto the Canadian Scene with their debut album on Jagjaguwar.
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Absentee Schmotime
What do you get if you cross Arthur Smith and Tom Waits? Probably something akin to what Absentee's debut has in store for you.
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Tokyo Police Club A Lesson In Crime
Canadian quartet squash a lot of rock into not a lot of time.
Richard Bendall-Jones reviews... -
Berg Sans Nipple Along the Quai
Besides ranking high in the run-off for oddest-named band of the decade, what else is odd about The Berg Sans Nipple?
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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.
