The new album from The Verve, Forth, is officially released on August 25th, but you can listen to the full album at the Verve’s official MySpace site for one week only.
By selecting a track from below you can hear an excerpt of eack track.

Since their headlining treat at Glastonbury this summer, The Verve are once [...]

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Juliana Hatfield – How To Walk Away (Ye Olde Records) - Album Review
The 10th solo album from Juliana Hatfield begins with The Fact Remains. Like many of the tracks on How To Walk Away, the song sounds instantly recognisable as a Juliana Hatfield bitter-sweet melodic pop song; and from its opening vocal, sounds familiar in [...]

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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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