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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - album review

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

(4 stars)15 Jan 2007

INDIE To follow up one of 2006’s albums of the year is a hard task, so for this US quintet to do it so quickly and effectively is pretty remarkable. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s second effort was recorded in ten months, between international festivals…

Frames, The - album review

The Frames

(4 stars)15 Jan 2007

INDIE The Frames - everybody loves them at home in Ireland, very few have heard of them anywhere else. Although they’re not exactly the new U2 that shouldn’t really be the case, for The Frames are a fine and evocative guitar band of the lighters…

Gruff Rhys - album review

Gruff Rhys

(4 stars)15 Jan 2007

INDIE Super Furry Animals have always had an irresistible, hapless charm, none more so than bobble-headed stoner frontman Gruff Rhys. Freed from his bandmates’ influence, Rhys comes up with a warm and fuzzy smile-inducing collection of essentially…

Hold Steady, The - album review

The Hold Steady

(5 stars)3 Jan 2007

ROCK’N’ROLL Sometimes, a band provides one of those kind of songs that always stay in your heart and record collection forever. The Hold Steady have an old song of theirs called ‘Your Little Hoodrat Friend’, a throttling, acerbic bombast of a rock…

Kyle Eastwood - album review

Kyle Eastwood

(3 stars)11 Dec 2006

JAZZ It is hard to avoid the feeling that the bassist has tried to push as many commercially attractive buttons as possible in the course of this disc. The prevailing ambiance is a cool chill-out vibe with a distinct jazz-lite feel, underlined by…

Jim Mullen Organ Trio - album review

Jim Mullen Organ Trio

(4 stars)11 Dec 2006

JAZZ The organ trio is one of jazz’s canonic formats, but can easily slip into clichéd recycling of standard soul-jazz licks. No such danger in this band. The Glaswegian guitarist and his collaborators, Hammond organist Mike Gorman and drummer Matt…

Various - Pulp Fusion - album review

Various

(4 stars)11 Dec 2006

FUNK The first in a veritable trove of stellar, themed retro-comps, Harmless celebrate Pulp Fusion’s 10th anniversary with a two-disc selection from NY crate digger, DJ and journalist Monk-One; and presumably his brief was ‘It ain’t broke...’ Cue 20…

Various - Blue Skies Up - album review

Various

(5 stars)11 Dec 2006

INDIE With a manifesto aiming to ‘save pop’, Dogbox Records have certainly set themselves a tall task. Most of the ‘pop’ on this compilation is as likely to hit the charts as a duet from Robert Kilroy-Silk and Michael Barrymore, but this reflects far…

Various - New Orleans Christmas - album review

Various

(4 stars)11 Dec 2006

FESTIVE JAZZ Some festive traditions are truly immovable: gluttony, credit card bills, tension between in-laws, you know the script, but others are there to be monkeyed around with. Hence forth, Mum’s Aled Jones carol CD can be tossed onto the fire…

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