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Incognito - Tales from the beach 2008-05-08 15:01:35 Why was this released in the spring? It is a summer album.
Although, with the recent weather we’ve been having in England, they could be forgiven for being mistaken. This album is the perfect accompaniment for sitting in the garden and drinking Pimms, cool Jazz and cool Funk join forces and float whimsically over the heads [...] Read more:Tales
Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture 2008-05-08 06:20:54 Like being put in a blender that’s been hooked up to blend in time with the music.
This, I think is probably the best album to come out this year, so far. It is utterly fantastic. I had a couple of this week’s releases on my mp3 player, on shuffle and ‘Crank it up’ came on [...] Read more:Music
Madonna - Hard Candy 2008-05-08 06:20:33 She should stop trying to be young and sexy…
Because she’s not and it’s quite embarrassing to see her trying to be cool and failing. It’s like when your mum tries to take an interest in pop music, or your dad trying to dance at a wedding. You just cringe and feel a huge amount of [...] Read more:Madonna
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Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer 2008-05-08 05:32:59 Tight, Talented, Something missing.
It really confuses me when I listen to an album that is very well performed and contains some very good music, but it just doesn’t inspire me.
Hardcore Punk is one of those genres that has a small margin between brilliant and very poor, and this album is very good, but it’s quite [...] Read more:Cancer
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Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold 2008-05-08 04:11:37 Metaphor rap.
Atmosphere is in a place in the middle of many different criteria within art. He’s in a soap bubble of vocal skill, word play and poetic licence.
The thing is, I wouldn’t call it poetry, it’s still most definitely rapping, it’s just that it’s filled with poetic devices to help with the narrative contained in [...] Read more:Paint
Mindless Self Indulgence - If 2008-05-01 08:34:47 Some of the most engrossing music ever.
Techno-metal-punk-type stuff all boxed in a small explosive package that is left in a bin in a train station.
I find it strange reviewing an album of a band that I have liked for a while. I become very biassed and want to just rave about the album. I also [...]
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 2008-04-29 14:11:38 My head’s in a video game and now I’m pixelated.
This duo of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass, the former producing the noises and the other making mouth noises produce a very unique form of music, made from a mix of video game noises and slow electrical music with a big slopping of loud vocals over [...] Read more:Crystal
Testament - The Formation of Damnation 2008-04-28 14:40:13 Like a hack saw to the back.
This album, takes the notion of thrash metal, turns it into rubber and twists it and stretches it. It’s stretched, but you let go and it springs back into shape. Going from sounding very similar to other thrash favourites, they jump across and pay a visit to other sub-genres [...] Read more:Testament
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Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro 2008-04-28 13:29:03 Looks a bit like Elton John on the cover of the album.
The music is like the recession of disco. This is the sort of album I expect to find for £2 in Cash Converters, from a short lived funk band from the 80s that my parents would go “Why did you buy this? I remember [...]
The Roots - Rising Down 2008-04-28 12:52:20 Woosh! Rap has landed.
The Roots, continue on their reign of terror on the rap scene as the band of brothers bring out their eighth studio album.
“According to their producer ?uestlove, Rising
Down, “is an electric record, more synthy. The darks are darker and the lights are lighter. But all I know is making quality hip-hop [...]
Santogold - Santogold 2008-05-11 16:35:23 Having read the 3 step guide to singing modern indie, Santogold realises she read the copy for men.
This is quite a confusing album because she sets out to break in to a genre very much dominated by white people and fails very badly with it, although when it comes to the songs which are more [...]
Gemma Hayes - Hollow of morning 2008-05-11 15:50:40 Rhaspy sexy voice.
The general genre of this music is cute female singer songwriter. There’s plenty of them out at the moment and they are all quite similar and it really is just based on personal preference which ones you like and which ones you loathe. GemmaHayes
flops lazily into my loathe tray and refuses [...] Read more:Hollow
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 2008-05-11 13:24:47 The sounds in the heads of drugged insects.
You know when somebody gets turned into an insect on TV and it shows the world from their perspective, and everything sounds like it’s coming from far away and muffled and slightly strange. Well that’s the effect this album has on you. It’s like they just stuck a [...] Read more:Ghost
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Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords 2008-05-15 16:14:33 Basically a soundtrack to the TV series.
Flight
of the Conchords are getting a touch boring. They are reusing a lot of songs that I have already heard and while I really love some of these songs and I’m happy for them to reuse them a couple of times, I would love for them to write [...]
No title 2008-05-15 14:43:17 Real life ‘High School Musical’ without the comedy.
If you’ve seen High School Musical, and like the music for it’s own merit then you’ll like this album. It’s cheesy and sickening and I wasn’t really taken with it. I loved High School Musical, but more for the hillarious comedy way that everything was executed in the [...]
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 2008-05-15 14:06:10 Acoustic Prog Rock.
Slow, calm and soothing, Bon Iver put something different into my ears and I like it. It’s like if Pink Floyd had been an acoustic indie singer songwriter, there’s some beautiful tunes on this album.
I had come across some of the songs while listening to this week’s releases on shuffle and had quite [...] Read more:Forever
The Charlatans - You Cross My Path 2008-05-14 12:27:52 Safe and comforting alternative rock.
It’s quite hard to listen to this album and not feel optimistic. If you’re in the depths of autumn, you know that winter is coming but this album reminds you that spring is just around the corner. The only exception to this is the song ‘My name is despair’, which, as [...] Read more:Cross
Moby - Last Night 2008-05-14 08:11:49 Dancy Dancy, a little bit fancy.
This is a dance version of calligraphy. It’s swirly and curly and appealing at first glance, but when you try to read it, you can’t really see what the content is. The album is a rather pleasant sounding experience, for the most part and I very much enjoyed it while [...] Read more:Night
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angels 2008-05-18 13:29:40 Twisting my consciousness.
This album has a strange talent of talking to your brain directly. It does so in sometimes a very funny way and sometimes a very sad and depressing way and it’s this contrast that causes the greatest impact to occur.
Scroobius Pip sounds like some guy down the pub chatting about stuff that just [...] Read more:Angels
Pendulum - In Silico 2008-05-18 12:56:37 I have been listening to this album constantly since I got it and it has taken preference in my listening time than any of the other albums that came out this last week, yet it is one of the last I am reviewing.
“WHY?” I hear you cry. Well, it’s because I can’t think of anything [...] Read more:Pendulum
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing 2008-05-24 05:30:33 Surprisingly fun, and also irritating.
The Ting Tings are a band that I had heard in passing and disregarded as annoying, but listening to the album it’s actually a lot of fun and I have totally rethunk my perception of them. Although they are still a bit annoying.
It’s simple, and nothing particularly new, but they are [...] Read more:Nothing
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! 2008-05-24 04:46:03 Swinging rock.
Green Day, under another name, attempt to play 60s American garage rock music, and in points succeed with their mission and at other points they fail. At points they sound like Green Day, at other points you can’t tell it’s them at all. At points it’s good, at points it’s rubs.
The thing is, I [...]
Kings X - XV 2008-05-24 03:53:40 Reasonable rock.
This band, who’s Wiki page is filled with [citation needed] are a hard rock, non Christian rock band. I say ‘non Christian’ not because they don’t follow the religion, but because they, themselves, do not want to be tagged as a Christian Rock outfit. From listening to the album, there is nothing inherently religious [...]
Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia 2008-05-24 03:28:26 Brighter Dark Cabaret.
First off, you need to bear in mind that this is a compilation album, made up of songs that have previously been written, but have not been included on any other release by the DresdenDolls
. So surely, they aren’t as good as the songs that were actually picked for album release. You [...] Read more:Virginia
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 2008-07-07 17:38:08 Sorbet Rock.
You know how rock albums will sometimes have a short interlude section to split up sections of the album and cleanse your pallet to get you ready for the next onslaught of music. These sections are usually quite slow, bland and boring, but act as a breather for your ears. Like when you have [...] Read more:Sigur
Disturbed - Indestructible 2008-07-07 17:37:13 A smooth metal ball.
Disturbed’s first two albums were big metal balls with spikes protruding from all angles. These spikes were incredibly sharp and stuck into you, ripping your flesh from the bone, but as with any sharp metal object, with use, it gets blunt. Ten Thousand Fists was slightly blunt, the sharpness had gone, and [...]
The Rascals - Rascalize 2008-07-07 17:35:47 Blandness in it’s raw form.
It’s been a while since an album has been released that I feel completely indifferent about. This album succeeds at not making me hate it. While it’s another indie by numbers album that has no unique ideas or interesting development anywhere in it and thus should be condemning the band to [...]
N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds 2008-07-06 12:53:24 Would be better live.
You can tell by listening to this album that it would be so much better if you were experiencing it live. It has an energy and entertainment potentiality that is mainly lost on the recording.
I really fell like I’m missing out while I’m listening to the album, not to say that it [...] Read more:Seeing
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Chris Brown - Exclusive 2008-07-06 12:53:04 Failed attempts to combine styles.
To begin with, the first track comes on and floods me with horrible repetition, bland beats and boring lyrics. Good start, I’m beginning to dread the next 78:17 of this Forever edition of the album. I think it’s called Forever, because that’s how long this album is feels like it takes [...] Read more:Chris
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Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs 2008-07-06 10:06:42 Producer’s lies.
Until hearing this album, I was on the ‘NOT’ side of the impressed scale for Death Cab for Cutie, I thought that they were bland and pointless and stupid. There are songs on this album, that still fall into this category. After an interesting start to the album, I do not want to turn [...] Read more:Narrow
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