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Fanfarlo: Bodega Social Club, Nottingham →  October 5, 2009

Things are more than all right. They’re positively joyful when bands like Fanfarlo are around.

Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue →  October 5, 2009

With masterful production from Nick Raskulinecz, and excellent musicianship throughout, Black Gives Way To Blue is a painful grieving process manifesting as a huge triumphant behemoth of a rock album.

Interview: Maps →  October 5, 2009

With his second album Turning The Mind released this week and a tour fast on the approach, TMM chatted to Maps about Mercury Prizes, misappropriation… and erm, Eminem.

Boo blog: Autumn #3 →  October 5, 2009

"I haven’t always been a work-shy puffy-sleeved singer/songwriter, you know. Although these days I am paid to express my feelings through a nascent folk beard there was a time when I knew the salty sting of manual labour."

Nephu Huzzband: Elementary →  October 1, 2009

I imagine seeing Nephu Huzzband at a live show would easily trump anything they could ever lay down on tape, as visceral punk with this amount of verve should be something witnessed first-hand.

Elvis Perkins In Dearland: Doomsday EP →  October 1, 2009

In a lot of ways, when I think of Doomsday EP, I’m reminded of Primal Scream’s Riot City Blues record. Both lent themselves to bitch-slaps at the hands of pretentious dirtbags across the world, and both acts probably knew this would be a fairly universal reaction.

Massive Attack: Splitting The Atom EP →  September 30, 2009

Like all Massive Attack music, Splitting The Atom solves a few mysteries, but points to exponentially more.

Hockey + Little Comets: Bodega Social Club, Nottingham →  September 30, 2009

With a bit of imagination, the hazy smoke-machine induced fog that hung over Hockey’s Nottingham Bodega Social Club leg of their tour could have given the gig a touch of Stars In Their Eyes about it.

Absent Elk: Caught In The Headlights →  September 29, 2009

Throughout every song there seems to be an obvious comparison yet they all still somehow seem charmingly discrete.

Wild Beasts: Two Dancers →  September 29, 2009

Two Dancers will continue to surprise; it is an album that listeners can continue to peel to find new layers of sound underneath.