Clor
Who? Clor? Never heard of them. At least we hadn’t until about a week ago, and the long and short of it is that we still don’t know what to... read more...
My Sister and the Devil EP
Moscow Schoolboy have a sound that will corrupt and comfort you at the same time. The musical equivalent of a tequila shot, their songs are about promoting... read more...
Tokyo Risen
A seemingly simple rearrangement of words can have startling effects. For example, "album cover" equals great, while "cover album"... read more...
Innaway [self-titled]
Some albums remind you of a particular place, or, a particular point in time. Others remind you of a journey, of many places, of times that were indefinite,... read more...
Show Your Bones
Inevitably, with a band such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sound and style are intricately linked. Each listen is imbedded with images of Karen O in all her... read more...
The Mouse and the Mask
The Original Villain MF Doom, has teamed up with the mash up master Danger Mouse, to release another outstanding exploration of a surreal world of Cartoon... read more...
Everything All The Time
Definitely more impressive than a mule, Band Of Horses sound is far from sterile. Bred from orchestral pop band Carissa’s Weird and released through... read more...
Go Commando
A good compilation is hard to find these days. As a contemporary audience we seem to take our cues from the over-thinking John Cusack in High-Fidelity... read more...
Oh You’re So Silent Jens
You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally,... read more...
With Love And Squalor
On the radio smash “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt”, We Are Scientists announce “If you wanna use my body/ go for it”. That’s... read more...
Non-stop Je Te Plie en Deux
Wolves are the undisputed breakout stars of the past year-or-so’s music scene. Wolfmother, Wolf and Cub, Wolf Parade, Wolf Eyes, Guitar Wolf,and... read more...
Favela Strikes Back
Listening to Diplo’s second selection of Baile funk tracks, Favela Strikes Back, isn’t dissimilar to being woken up by your mum screaming... read more...
Below The Branches
There is nothing more painful than a story told badly, yet there are few things better than one told well. Fortunately, San Franciscan multi-instrumentalist,... read more...
The Greatest
The album art for The Greatest Chan Marshal’s (aka Cat Power) latest recording is so cool, non-fans of the circuitous, little, indie-rockette, may... read more...
Coming On Strong
Hot Chip with their laptop be-bop synths and soulful lyrics are too good to throw to the seagulls. Their album Coming On Strong is not as in your face... read more...
The Longcut mini album
You could imagine that no one speaks while watching The Longcut play live. There would be no gossiping and certainly no small talk, bottles could break... read more...
Everything Ecstatic
A glance at the Everything Ecstatic cover art might make us think that Four Tet has suffered from an Art Attack. Whether or not blip-wizard Kieran Hebden... read more...
Nine Times That Same Song
Love, or rather, the word love, was sullied by highschool. It was a time when people started feeling hot and bothered. A time when we first confessed love... read more...
The Runners Four
The Runners Four is the new album from enigmatic San Franciscan band Deerhoof. It is their first straight-up, look-you-in-the-eye guitar rock album and... read more...
Van She
Being signed to Modular could be likened to being born into a family of over achievers, laden from conception with the burden of expectation. Van She are... read more...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Regardless of their name sounding like some New Age positive affirmation technique, or maybe a bad lyric to a house anthem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are... read more...
A Certain Trigger
The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album... read more...
Takk.
Regrettably there is supposed to be a cute little dash kind of thing on top of the ‘o’ in Sigur Ros. We can’t find it on the keyboard,... read more...
The Magic Numbers
It could be easy to confuse The Magic Numbers with Major Moulty’s Amazing Magical Plastic Band. Although, it would be really odd that before releasing... read more...