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Gabby Young and Other Animals

By • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: long players

This debut EP from now London-based Gabby Young is a truly unique mixture of musical styles. Starting with the big band sound of ‘Snakebite’ it sounds like a show song. A jazz style comes through that is prevalent in most of the songs here and you can hear the classical vocal training is Gabby’s amazing [...]



Revere

By • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: short players

New single from eight-piece London outfit Revere starts out with just piano and falsetto vocals with the occasional shimmering cymbal. Imagine it as a haunting solo from a show, played in front of a big theatre; and theatrical is a good description of the band’s sound.



Stephen Dale Petit

By • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: short players

New single to accompany the re-released version of his debut album, ‘A Better Answer’ is a full on blues-rock song. Stephens vocals have a real punk spirit to them, possibly driven by the subject matter of the current political and economic climate.



Punch and the Apostles

By • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: jrwee, short players

This, the second single from Glasgow-based Punch and the Apostles, starts out sounding like a big band tune until Paul Napier breaks in with his raucous vocals. Both his singing style and his dark lyrics shouldn’t fit the musical style but then again Punch and the Apostles have already proven that they can’t be shoehorned [...]



James Fox

By • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: long players

Former Fame Academy contestant and Eurovision competitor James Fox (oh, you’ve stopped reading already) has managed to release the most insipid album this reviewer has heard all year. Granted, I don’t tend to buy any of the pop singer songwriter rubbish that has flooded the charts in recent years but if this is representative of [...]