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Brian Kellock - The Nine Mile Burn Sessions

Brian Kellock - The Nine Mile Burn Sessions

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

JAZZ It has been too a long a wait for a follow up to pianist Brian Kellock’s award-winning Live At Henry’s set. This album is an excellent launch for a potentially significant new recording project from Cathie Rae’s Thick Skinned Productions, and…

Britney Spears - Circus

Britney Spears - Circus

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

POP Tabloid hysteria aside, Britney Spears is shaping up to be one of pop’s most interesting stars, and if we’re lucky, she’ll endure more iconic chameleon-esque reinventions, Madge-style, for many years to come. Some will fail spectacularly and…

Glasvegas - The Christmas Album

Glasvegas - The Christmas Album

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

SEASONAL ROCK Available via download or as part of repackaged re-release of their debut long player this isn’t quite the full on Christmas ‘album’ Glasvegas promised, but they have delivered six outstanding songs for the holiday season. And it…

Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

ROCK There were a few moments in the last 17 years that it felt like this album was likely to arrive after the dawning of actual Chinese democracy, there in rendering Axl Rose’s political musings, at best prophetic, and at worst ill-timed, such was…

Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak

Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

POP Of the great break up albums in music lore – Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear, Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks or even Beck’s Sea Change – few have coincided with a musical watershed such as the Matt Damon of hip hop’s fourth album. More than just a…

King Creosote & HMS Ginafore - Love + Hate = Hate

King Creosote & HMS Ginafore - Love + Hate = Hate

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

FOLK Providing the finest cross-gender pop union since Bonnie Tyler inveigled Todd Rundgren, this bilateral treat from the Fence Collective king and queen might invoke the mathematical tongue, but this is an album of human equations: limbs are…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

27 Nov 2008

What’s that Lassie? Name+Relucto are trapped down the well? ‘Spawnofspoon EP’ (Hum+Haw) ••• is a plinky-plonky kind of techno that is thankfully less like being punched hard in the face over and over, and more like the voices in your head have taken to…

The Killers - Day & Age

The Killers - Day & Age

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

POP IN INDIE CLOTHING As much as they try to conceal it with dodgy facial fuzz and crunchy guitar riffs, The Killers are just a big brash pop band at heart. The clues are in Brandon Flowers’ penchant for outlandish outfits and, of course, his way…

Also Released - Records

13 Nov 2008

Little Joy Little Joy (Rough Trade) Strokes’ drummer Fabrizio Moretti joins Los Hermanos’ singer Rodrigo Amarante for this slice of slowed-down 60s pop, with Moretti’s girlfriend Binki dropping in for some adorably dreamy singalongs. Fabric 43 Metro…

Artur Pizarro - The Complete Piano Works of Maurice Ravel, Volume Two

Artur Pizarro - The Complete Piano Works of Maurice Ravel, Volume Two

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Keenly awaited second volume of Ravel’s piano works recorded by the Portugese pianist does not disappoint. There is a graceful clarity to Pizarro’s playing that suits Ravel to perfection. The Sonatine may not be as familiar as the ever-popular and…

Corrina Hewat - Harp I Do

Corrina Hewat - Harp I Do

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Corrina Hewat forsakes the chumminess of the various groups in which she is involved – including co-directing the might Unusual Suspects – for the more isolated terrain of solo harp. As the title says, harp she does, and very well too. She approaches…

Dumb Instrument - No-One Knows What It’s Like to Be Me

Dumb Instrument - No-One Knows What It’s Like to Be Me

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Described in their local Ayrshire Post as like ‘Ivor Cutler on Irn Bru’, the youthful trio of singer-songwriter Tom Murray, pianist Mikey Grant and bassist Kieron Campbell, deliver their societally Scottish debut album. Augmented by fiddler Matt Harvey…

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Gang Gang Dance hold a very special place in my heart. They reside – still – as the single most terrible live act I have ever seen. The most pretentious, ill-conceived, tragically hip display of musical arsery I have ever had the misfortune to witness.

Geraint Watkins- In a Bad Mood

Geraint Watkins- In a Bad Mood

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

From the depths of South Wales via London, 50-something delivers his fourth set, nearly 30 years after his Vertigo Records debut with The Dominators. Having intermittently worked as session keyboard player with Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison and Nick Lowe…

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate - 75th

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate - 75th

(3 stars)13 Nov 2008

JAZZ JOE ZAWINUL & THE ZAWINUL SYNDICATE 75th (BHM/Birdjam) The concert represented on this live 2-CD set was recorded on the late Joe Zawinul’s 75th birthday on 7 July 2007 in his native Vienna (he died only a couple of months later). Despite the…

Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide

Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Last year’s Tanks and Recognizers album set the tone for this spaced-out, neo-shoegazing trio from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (comprising ex-Aurore Rien duo Chris Schafer and Mike Ystad, plus guitarist Mike Rush). Haunting, eerie and cinematic (think Sigur…

Remember Remember - Remember Remember

Remember Remember - Remember Remember

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

In an age when laptops ship with gigabytes of studio quality loops for users to shuffle round on a grid to make their own creations with, it’s never been easier to make loop-based music – and quickly end up with some sterile wallpaper music – just spend…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

13 Nov 2008

It would seem that the season-savvy have been busy fashioning tracks to stay indoors to. Sofas, fine lounging and low key indie sounds are the order of the day for this fortnight’s top runners. Producer Kwes’ salutation to the slipper-set, debut solo…

Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

(2 stars)13 Nov 2008

Zzzzzzzzzz … Oops sorry – you want to read a review right? OK. Here goes. Nothing very new to report from Glasgow/Belfast’s premier guitar balladeers; just more of the same insipid arena rock we’ve been battered round the ears with for the past few…

The Bad Plus - For All I Care

The Bad Plus - For All I Care

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

The Bad Plus continue to push at the boundaries of what might constitute a jazz repertoire – and a jazz style of playing it – in the 21st century. This time round the tunes include Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’, an electrifying version of Pink Floyd’s…

The Cure - 4.13 Dream

The Cure - 4.13 Dream

(3 stars)13 Nov 2008

As Robert Smith shuffles – his unlaced hi-tops squeaking across the floor – into pop musical maturity, his willingness to indulge his dark side wavers. The band’s last album, a self-titled behemoth from 2004, was The Cure gone metal. For the greater…

Those Dacing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits

Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Appearances can be deceptive. And in our image-obsessed age it’s great to hear someone like Linnea Johnson, who looks a cherubic Swedish folk-singer, but has a voice like heavily polished mahogany. Coming off somewhere between Liz Frazer and Alison…

Various - Sleepwalk: A Selection By Optimo (Espacio)

Various - Sleepwalk: A Selection By Optimo (Espacio)

(5 stars)13 Nov 2008

Any album which takes a full ten minutes to actually develop any BPM at all – over Chris Watson’s found wavesound and the calming tone of Nurse With Wound’s ‘Funeral Music For Perez Prado’ isn’t your typical dance mix. But then, as should be obvious by…

Sly & Robbie with Amp Fiddler - Inspiration Information 1

Sly & Robbie with Amp Fiddler - Inspiration Information 1

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

SOUL Purveyors of fine music compilations, Strut have branched out into fresh studio recordings by pairing up acclaimed artists for exclusive five-day sessions. In this first instalment former Funkadelician and contemporary smooth soul rambler Amp…

Also Released - Music

16 Oct 2008

Grace Jones - Hurricane (Wall of Sound) She’s been a bitchy Bond girl, Andy Warhol’s muse and a terrifyingly cool 70s disco diva. She’s back after a 20 year pause, with an album worked on by Brian Eno and Sly & Robbie. The Cure - 4:13 Dream…

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