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Tricky – False Idols

May 24, 2013 Album, Reviews No Comments

By Rob Crozier

May 22, 2013

Tricky is back with a brand new fifteen track album and the admission by the artist that he felt “lost for ages”, because he was “trying to prove something to people, and trying to please others.” … Continue Reading

Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle

May 24, 2013 Album, Reviews No Comments

By Mitchell Stirling

May 24, 2013.

With Laura Marling, there’s something in the water, it flows through her fourth album Once I Was An Eagle as it has done her previous work. The bodies of water keep getting wider; on her debut she couldn’t cross a river for a boy because “alas, I cannot swim” Here, she’s travelling over oceans. … Continue Reading

Haiku Salut – Tricolore

May 23, 2013 Album, Reviews 6 Comments

By Joe Watson

May 23, 2013

Haiku Salut may not be the name on everyone’s lips but one thing is for sure, if this album somehow manages to get your time of day, it’s not likely something you will forget in a hurry. Rather than try to pin a style of six or seven hyphenated genre abbreviations to the Derbyshire trio, we will do our best to break down the intricacies of what their instrumental debut album Tricolore is all about – not particularly easy to do with something that is to an extent musically pretty unique to the UK in general. … Continue Reading

30 Seconds To Mars – Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams

May 23, 2013 Album, Reviews 8 Comments

By Danielle Gibson

May 23, 2013

After a four year wait, 30 Seconds To Mars are back with Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams. After the massive success that was This Is War, does this new album stand a chance at doing an even better job? … Continue Reading

The Memory Band – On The Chalk (Our Navigation Of The Line Of The Downs)

May 22, 2013 Album, Reviews 9 Comments

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 22, 2013

The Wicker Man & Stonehenge – two things you can bet are in most peoples’ top tens of ‘things you associate with folk music’. Cliches though have to begin somewhere but, just because this very enjoyable album starts off with a song that brings the aforementioned film to mind and its release was marked by band leader Stephen Cracknell taking a three day walk to the latter stone feature, that doesn’t mean this has all been done before. … Continue Reading

Sparrow And The Workshop – Murderopolis

May 22, 2013 Album, Reviews 1 Comment

By Rob Aldam

May 22, 2013

There has always been a touch of the theatrical about Glasgow’s Sparrow and the Workshop. Their previous outings Crystals Fall and Spitting Daggers mixed playful folk with a sleazier rock side. The Irish/American, Welsh and Scottish trio seem to have grown into their sound since they began back in 2008. Murderopolis sees any tentativeness or uncertainty dissipate to be replaced by a strong sense of direction and focus. They seem to have finally shaken-off the shackles of nostalgic pining and found their own true voice.

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The Baptist Generals – Jackleg Devotional To The Heart

May 21, 2013 Album, Reviews 1 Comment

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By Nicko Ruddock

May 21, 2013

After 10 years of hiding away under what we can only assume was a rock, Indie folk ensemble The Baptist Generals are back with a new album; Jackleg Devotional to the Heart is a beautiful collection of acoustic numbers which step outside the boundaries of contemporary pop music. By lacking the usual fear that they might ‘do something wrong’ The Baptist Generals have allowed their music to move up to a higher plateau above the norm. The entire album boasts an organic, warm vintage sounding production which is akin to the hiss laden tracks recorded back in the ‘60s; a production choice which suits the folk vibe right down to the ground.

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The Fall – Re-Mit

May 21, 2013 Album, Reviews 1 Comment

By Tom Bolton

May 21, 2013.

A new album from The Fall is an event anticipated, expected even, by many. When Mark E. Smith finally stops making records, entirely against his will of course, we will feel his absence much more keenly than that of Margaret Thatcher or Alex Ferguson.  He may have outlasted both, but its evolution that has kept him going for so long.  The Fall’s sound is always unmistakable but never predictable. … Continue Reading

Field Report – Field Report

May 20, 2013 Album, Reviews 2 Comments

By Alistair Seaton

May 20, 2013.

These days a backstory seems to be obligatory for any debut album expecting to receive attention, and in this sense Field Report doesn’t disappoint.  It is a vehicle for Christopher Porterfield (of which Field Report is an anagram of his surname), a former member of DeYarmond Edison, the band that also used to provide a home for Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and future members of Megafaun, Phil and Brad Cook. Given this pedigree, his self-titled debut sounds much as you might expect: folky, rootsy and slow-paced. Sparse and predominately acoustic, it also deploys splashes of synths in a way not dissimilar to the recent Phosphorescent album. … Continue Reading

Hooded Fang – Gravez

May 20, 2013 Album, Reviews 1 Comment

By Richard Wink

May 20, 2013

An unlikely early contender for album of 2013, this review will be more a plea attempting to convince you to give it a listen then anything else. When Toronto’s Hooded Fang released Tosta Mista it was weighed down slightly by some unnecessary filler, but it did carry some pointed clues to the future, a whiff of psychobilly, sixties surf and dumb psychedelia. … Continue Reading

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