Brakes
Rock is Dodelijk
Fat Cat
Brakes serve up an ear-thrashing 20-track live album that showcases their gleefully manic rock show. more… “Brakes”
Brakes serve up an ear-thrashing 20-track live album that showcases their gleefully manic rock show. more… “Brakes”
The latest addition to Drift Records impeccable roster, Something Beginning With L, aka Lucy, Jen and Jon, offer up some delightful scuzzy electropop. more… “Something Beginning With L”
So much so has the Thirty Pounds of Bone debut album, ‘The Homesick Children of Migrant Mothers’, never been off my stereo it’s hard to believe it’s been three years since it was cast onto these shores. more… “Thirty Pounds of Bone”
Graham Coxon
The Spinning Top
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So here it is, the seventh solo album from the greatest guitar player of his generation, equaling the amount of long players Blur have in their canon more… “Graham Coxon”
This Glasgow based duo’s debut long-player is an absolute gem of a record. Recorded with producer/composer Malcolm Lindsay, who has previously written and arranged for The Delgados and The Willard Grant Conspiracy, it’s an album that relies on the simplest of formulas more… “Doghouse Roses”
If anyone’s after a good laugh you could do a lot worse than getting the new self-titled Weezer record, being dubbed as the Red album due to the sleeve colour that provides the backdrop for the guys to dress up like the Village People (god knows what they were thinking!?!). For those of you that have managed to avoid the leaked tracks then you’re in for a real mind blowing experience in every sense, but mostly in the sense of confusion. more… “Weezer”
Beck returns with his first new material since last year’s uber-pop internet-only single, ‘Timebomb’. Is it anything like that? more… “Beck”
Actress Hands’ main man goes it alone and makes his best record yet. You may not have heard of Matt Eaton yet, and God knows he may never break through into any form of mainstream success but it’s not for the want of trying when he makes such beautiful pastoral pop music as contained here. Bizarrely named, ‘Finish Your Chips’, people who are getting a boner about Bon Iver right now should seriously check this out. more… “Matt Eaton”
Darren Hayman is a busy man, if he’s not collating re-issues of Hefner albums, releasing 7” singles with songs recorded while on his caravan holidays or knocking out solo albums year on year, he’s now venturing into full-on Bluegrass territory. more… “Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee”
Thomas White ventures out on his own for the first time whilst on a very rare break from Electric Soft Parade and Brakes commitments and the results are, in a word, brilliant. If you’re wondering what the point of this record is being that White pens most of the ESP songs and has more than a hand in the Brakes material then I suggest you just get a copy, sit back and soak it up. more… “Thomas White”