This week sees the release of the fifth studio album from Welsh rocking 5-piece Funeral For A Friend. Rock festival favourites, it has been a long while since their last album release Tales Don’t Tell Themselves. We wait eagerly in anticipation to hear what they will have to offer this time round. … Continue Reading
Girl with attitude Beth Ditto returns to the airwaves this month with her first solo EP. A collaboration with Simian Mobile Disco, this 4 track EP is dance-tastic and a fresh change from her work with The Gossip. … Continue Reading
Fran Healy - Wreckorder
The first solo album from Travis’ Fran Healy hits our airwaves this month with a much more mature sound. With support from Paul McCartney who even plays bass on one track, Wreckorder is sure to attract the attention of many.
Far from the Travis we knew back in the days of ‘Sing’, ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me’ and ‘Turn’, Healy’s debut album kicks off with track ‘In The Morning’. A multi layered and atmospheric track combining eerie piano melodies with orchestral harmonies and beats, it is a short but sweet start to the album. … Continue Reading
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
Brandon Flowers returns to our airwaves with his debut solo album Flamingo. Following outstanding success fronting The Killers, Flowers steps out on his own to up the ante and demonstrate that he can go it alone. With a less electro sound than we have become accustomed to from the Killers, what will this album have to offer…? … Continue Reading
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
After 23 years riding our airwaves, Kylie Minogue returns with her new album Aphrodite after a not so successful “comeback” in 2007 with album X. X reached only number 4, perhaps not seemingly a failure of a chart position, but for Kylie this was highly unusual. So is Aphrodite all glitz and glam like the Kylie Minogue we know and love?
‘All The Lovers’ is her first single offering taken from the Aphrodite album, with electro beats and a real purity of vocals. She is back on top; catchy and poptastic, this is a true Kylie sound with a mature feel that she has perfected through the experimentation on her last few albums. … Continue Reading
My Tiger My Timing
Is this an ’80s Madonna single? No it’s the latest offering from pop five piece My Tiger My Timing. The fresh female vocals make a nice change; recent times have provided a real surge in indie/pop female lyricists, seemingly a winning ingredient.
Mirrors
The first church organ sounding notes blare through our speakers and wind into a very Pulp sounding mildly psychedelic track, with electro beats and similar tones to those of Jarvis Cocker. This is Mirrors.
Frank Turner
Ex-hardcore band Million Dead-member Frank Turner has a new offering in the form of album ‘Poetry Of The Deed’, and what a treat it is. Turner is simplistic and original with his folk-punk style sound. His music is very personal and is far from the repetitive over-produced tracks that drown the music market on a daily basis.
Attack!Attack!
September 17th 2009
Here at Muso’s Guide we love to find new and upcoming bands, so when we were invited along to the launch of Red Bull Bedroom Jam season we were there quicker than our noteworthy purple boots could carry us…
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Basement Jaxx - Scars
Basement Jaxx are back with their fifth album, following 2006 release Crazy Itch Radio. These are exciting times, or so we expect.
The question is, is their time up? Having experienced the peak of their success with first albums Remedy and Rooty? Back then they were something a bit different, but have dance acts with new points of difference such as Pendulum stolen the attention?
Scars allows Basement Jaxx to call upon some famous collaborators. Not shy to the world of using guest vocalists, this is not a new concept; but the line-up on this album is somewhat fierce. Sam Sparro, Chipmunk, Kelis, Lightspeed Champion and even Yoko Ono. Well if nothing else the album sleeve line-up will certainly get people talking…
Summer top twenty hit ‘Raindrops’ kicks off the album with a rare showcasing of Felix’s own vocals. The first question we ask ourselves is where has the power behind their tracks gone? The essence is there but it lacks the face and impact that we have come to know this duo for. With vocal distortion effects there are some points of interest but they are rather few and far between. It is all a little too mediocre and lacklustre, surely they have more to offer? In time this track is a grower but it is certainly no ‘Bingo Bango’. A track to please fans but it will certainly gain no new ones.
By the time ‘Twerk’ kicks in we start to lose all hope. This very American sounding track with its hip hop intro (Is this a Black Eyed Peas album?) is far too all over the place. There is no focus and it causes some irritation to the ears. This track is bizarre and certainly not in a unique and likeable way. We are quickly losing faith. … Continue Reading
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