Album review - The Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino Records)
The Wild Beasts are truly original.  As I listen to Limbo, Panto - their debut album again, I really can’t compare them with anyone else.  Hayden Thorpe’s beautiful voice is reminiscent in parts of Billy Mackenzie’s golden tonsils, but apart from sharing an uncompromising, unconventional [...]

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Film Noir - I Had A Very Hapy Childhud
I Had A Very Hapy Childhud (their spelling) is an exceptional debut album from French band Film Noir. It is one of the indie pop / indie rock albums I’ve heard for some time.
The14 track album starts with the razor-sharp juttering guitar of It’s Goodbye, that lives [...]

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It has been described as Paul Weller’s White Album, a double ‘concept’ album containing the most eclectic mix of music you could imagine.
It is 15 years since the magnificent Wildwood was released followed two years later by Stanley Road, and since then Paul Weller has become, well boring really. With 22 Dreams, he has re-discovered the [...]

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The Laurel Collective - Feel Good Hits of a Nuclear Winter (Domino Records)
The Laurel Collective are definitely what this summer needs. After shrinking the band from nineteen members to the current six, the musicians from Wales, England, Nigeria and Italy have made a masterpiece.
Harking back to the days of Britpop, the album is set to [...]

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The Black Angels – Directions To See A Ghost (Light in the Attic Records)
Picking up right from where their last album ‘Passover’ left off , The Black Angels manage to combine Mass’ haunting singing, depressive lyrics and the bands experimental style to make something quite beautiful.
The four piece from Austin, Texas, certainly have talent when [...]

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