The debut album from London youngsters Bombay Bicycle Club has been a long time coming.
The debut album from London youngsters Bombay Bicycle Club has been a long time coming.
Birmingham’s Blakfish have been doing the rounds on Britain’s burgeoning post-hardcore scene for a number of years.
Introducing VV Brown: possibly the best newcomer for 2009.
New York’s Regina Spektor is something of a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.
Fewer singer-songwriters have made suicide and self-loathing into everyman singalongs better than Malcolm Middleton on his earlier albums.
A record for those in search of a varied rock album, but maybe not one for fans of classic Wildhearts.
Baxter are a London-based five-piece who play melodic indie pop, and in this collection, they showcase their sound in four easy pieces.
Take one political hip-hop pioneer, the voice of stomping, cheery anthems like Piss On Your Grave and add the cap wearing, Harvard graduate, ex Rage Against The Machine guitar player.
I really wanted to dislike this album. I had dismissed Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid as try-hard bandwagon-jumpers, riding the wave of 80s inspired pop indiscriminately to the top of the charts, making mugs of the general public.
From the moment Animation begins to rotate in the record player it becomes very clear that this is no ordinary pop album.
