“Undoubtedly good stuff, a solid piece of work and obviously heading in the right direction, but you’ll need a cup of tea and a biscuit after…”
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones (Polydor)
“The truth is, it hasn’t and they are still just as enchanting if not more so. YEAH, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.”
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The Secret Machines – Silver Drops
“Eight minute efforts by the name of Daddy’s in the Doledrums where “A mother walks the streets/with a baby in her arms” can’t be taken any more seriously than Eurovision winners Lordi’s belief in the oncoming Arockolypse. ”
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Aberfeldy – Whatever Turns You On
“A creeping realisation that so-called ‘chamber pop’ would never be a commercial success appears to have set in at camp Aberfeldy.”
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Blue Skies Up Compilation
And that’s why Blue Skies Up is bound to have a real, genuine effect; scenesters and snobbishness are out of the window. There’s no reason why this wouldn’t work as side one of Now 79.
Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
To be honest, the easiest way of describing The Trials of Van Occupanther to you would be to say that it’s the greatest Fleetwood Mac album that Fleetwood Mac never recorded…
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid – The Exchange Sessions
“As for authenticity, writers on jazz seem to have this hang up on authenticity, just like that idiot from the Sterophonics.”
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Jel – Soft Money
“My favourite on this LP though has to be Soft Money, Dry Bones, which sets the scene Depeche Mode-style, before settling down to a rap with an incredibly poetic set of observations (God I sound like such a Sunday school teacher here don’t I? I’m such a drip…) ”
Darren Hayman – Table for One
“It’s a jolly, life-affirming tale of ordinary people; “Trevor you should be getting laid/instead of playing bingo with me”. Oofph!”
Overeasy – Bang Your Buck
It’s like very, very, bad DAF or a kid’s casio version of Goldfrapp.