Metaltech
By Jonathan Muirhead • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long playersThis is like a patchwork of all your favourite tunes with some new space-age groove thrown in too.
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Forward Play
By Jonathan Muirhead • Jul 1st, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long playersThis is a crazed, driven, based-up brute of a disc. That much is clear right from the opening notes and it is this seething, angel-of-vengeance attitude which drives the whole set.
Alex Tronic
By Jonathan Muirhead • Apr 10th, 2010 • Category: jrwee, short playersThis latest release from the Scottish dance music polymath that is Alex Tronic (or Paul Croan, to his Mum) is the funkiest disc these ears have heard in a long time.
Paul Hawkins and Thee Awkward Silences
By Jonathan Muirhead • Apr 7th, 2010 • Category: long playersPaul Hawkins is back, that’s the good news and the even better news is, this new disc is a double and has plenty of Hawkins’ customary venom and fire, which is all the more welcomed in these dark, post-winter days which seem to be full of bland, mournful ballads.
Chris Bradley
By Jonathan Muirhead • Apr 4th, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long playersThere’s soulfulness at the heart of this album that immediately makes one warm to it. While many singer-songwriters albums tend to drown you in melodrama, melancholy and sincerity, there is a wry honesty here that makes you smile.
