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By Alex Botten • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: features, short players

There comes a time in a man’s life when he can no longer face the endless pile of CDs being proffered for review by eager PR companies and young bands…when the thought of listening to yet another group of skinny indie boys with guitars fills him with despair.



Caveat Audiens

By Alex Botten • May 28th, 2008 • Category: long players

Lyle Christine has been knee deep in the Scottish music scene for years now, whether producing grunge tinged rock with his former band Stigma, or typing epic bile flecked messages on numerous forums, messages that most fail repeatedly to see the obvious humour in.



Elizabeth

By Alex Botten • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: long players

I’m going to have to quote from the bio on Canadians Elizabeth’s webpage here - “From early on, Elizabeth has been known as the band that exists outside the indie-rock orthodoxy…[rejecting]…the trendy trappings of the contemporary indie dogma (read: whiney vocals and chintzy synths)”



They Came From The Stars I Saw Them

By Alex Botten • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: long players

Absolute ego meets absolute pop, via Wonksynth Lane.



Pale Man Made

By Alex Botten • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: long players

Good lord, it’s great to have new material for Newcastle’s finest, Pale Man Made. Short, sharp, fuzz pop gems are the order of the day, and Pale Man Made are one of those bands that could make even the most committed techno-adherent take up the guitar again.