Reviews archives for May 2007
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
Published 31st May, 2007
Maybe it's broad nature of the material and the number of...
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Daydreaming
Published 31st May, 2007
Deaf Center certainly know a thing or six about deeply affecting,...
Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop
Published 30th May, 2007
It's nigh on eight years since this thundering and expansive...
Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring By The Sea
Published 30th May, 2007
With vocal duties split 50-50 between Blood Red Shoes guitarist...
The Rumble Strips - Live - Topman / NME New Music Tour
Published 30th May, 2007
It's that old ska/psychobililly touch, to be able to split a...
Run_Return - Sum Of An Abstract
Published 30th May, 2007
Run_Return, a group of three friends based in California, formed...
Blood Red Shoes - Live - Topman / NME New Music Tour
Published 29th May, 2007
On the brink of their first single release for their mammoth new...
Pull Tiger Tail - Live - Topman / NME New Music Tour
Published 29th May, 2007
It's that angular, melody drive that introduces Pull Tiger Tail...
Romance Of Young Tigers - I Have Supped Full Of Horrors
Published 28th May, 2007
Just before Christmas last year, a peculiar looking CD arrived in my...
Stephen Fretwell - Live
Published 28th May, 2007
The air is filled with a soul-stroking, heart tugging piece that...
Liam Fray - Live
Published 28th May, 2007
A compact setting that has the artist penned in like a baboon in a...
Zelienople - His/Hers
Published 24th May, 2007
A word in your shell-like: Zelienople are every bit as ominous as...
Softwar - Softwar
Published 23rd May, 2007
A friend once described music like Softwar's self-titled debut...
Teenager - Live
Published 23rd May, 2007
There's something odd in the air tonight, or to be more precise,...
Damn Arms - Live
Published 23rd May, 2007
Damn Arms take to the stage looking like component parts of...
Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Published 22nd May, 2007
'More Songs About Jane' is the immediate, alternative title...
Kate Nash - Foundations
Published 21st May, 2007
Could you imagine Lily Allen and Lady Sovereign meeting the Bjork of...
The Pirate Ship Quintet - The Pirate Ship Quintet EP
Published 21st May, 2007
Not really a 5 piece band, but more of a 14 legged army of musicians,...
The Dears - You And I Are A Gang Of Losers
Published 21st May, 2007
"If there's one place in where the gap between the rich and...
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
Published 18th May, 2007
From honing their skills in Glasgow's less than glamourous 13th...
Stephen Fretwell - Four Letter Words
Published 18th May, 2007
In order to lay the foundations for his follow up to the masterful...
Efterklang - Under Giant Trees
Published 18th May, 2007
How great must it be to be Danish? Where as us Brits have to deal...
Chris Cornell - Arms Around Your Love
Published 15th May, 2007
Chris Cornell must have the best surviving voice of the grunge era,...
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Published 15th May, 2007
Third helpings: the trickiest of all pancakes to toss. For the likes...
Shy Child - Live (Supporting Klaxons)
Published 14th May, 2007
Glow sticks soar around like mayflies and excitement builds towards...