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//3 May 2008

Ursula Minor

Laudanum (Foreign Office)

Sometimes, if something’s gone, it really should be consigned to history. The Drybrough Cup and white dog poo a couple of the more obvious examples. However, Glasgow 4-piece Ursula Minor never ever really got started […]


//3 May 2008

God Fearing Athiests

Rustbelt Sun (GFA)

From a halcyon age when Scottish indie bands sang in drawls from some place far far away, strumming guitars and - despite that - singing of places rather closer to home. The GFAs are no different, ‘St Jude’s Parade’ which opens this 11-tracker could be their ‘Killermont Street’ […]


//3 May 2008

Rose

Rose (Play)

Now, this is nice… not niiiice, but opening track ‘Adrenaline’ with its meandering sax has a sleazy jazzy bar-room groove with Peter Rose’s croon half-spoken, half-sung - breaking over the top. […]


//1 May 2008

Jason Ringenberg

Best Tracks And Side Tracks 1979-2007 (Jerkin' Crocus)

Perhaps best known for his work with eighties cowpunkers Jason and the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has been there and done that in his 30-year career, and now he brings us this two disc career-spanning retrospective. […]


//30 April 2008

The Canadians

A Sky With No Stars (Ghost Records)

From the title of their album, it is clear that these Italians (not Canadian) are the melancholic type. Their brand of melancholy is one of nostalgia of late nights on the beach. […]


//26 April 2008

One More Grain

Isle of Grain (White Heat)

When occasional itm? favourite Daniel Patrick Quinn suddenly upped sticks in 2006 and moved to London (leaving a canceled gig behind) we’d imagined that this was the last we’d heard of him. […]


//26 April 2008

Jamie Lidell

Jim (Warp)

Now, I’ve nothing against white people. Indeed, some of my best friends are white, but it’s a generally accepted fact that white soul singers tend to be of the ‘shit’ variety (see Joss Stone, Mick Hucknall, Jay Kay). […]


//26 April 2008

MGMT

Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)

Any debut album whose opening song contains lyrics such as “let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives. I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars” will pretty much always get a thumbs up from me. […]


//26 April 2008

SKANKt

Thieves Operate In This Area (SKANKt)

SKANKt are a six-piece ska band. If certain sections of the music media are to be believed, however, you’d be lucky to find six people who are even interested in ska music nowadays, let alone that they should find each other and play in a band! Ska music after all, is dead. […]


//26 April 2008

Aspen Woods

New World Disorder (Razorblade)

Parts of this album sound like Spiritualized. Unfortunately, not the good Spiritualized of ‘Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space’, but the rubbish touring Spiritualized consisting of Jason Pierce and a number of session musicians creating 20 minute ‘jams’ of unbelievable dullness. […]


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