 | Safe-ish and Very Sound 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Sky Blue Sky’, Wilco’s sixth album, once again shows Jeff Tweedy’s willingness to change the band’s style which makes his band so interesting. Virtually gone is the experimentalism in sound which was so promin... read full review |
 | Master at Work 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Writing in his Bonnie Prince Billy guise, Will Oldham’s ‘Master and Everyone’ is an album of 10 songs, just over 34 minutes long, but is an object lesson in how less is more. The songs feature minima... read full review |
 | Haunting 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Darren Aronofsky’s directorial follow-up to ‘Pi’ has gained a degree of notoriety in recent years because of its graphic scenes showing the consequences of drug addiction, but ‘Requiem For A Dream’ in many ways... read full review |
 | Bigger and Better 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
A few people really don’t like it when their favourite cult band becomes hugely successful, do they? This is the only explanation I can think of for the negative comments posted about ‘Neon Bible’ because view... read full review |
 | Good Not Great 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
There are both good and bad points to the new Explosions in the Sky album. On the plus side, the band once again subtly shifts its style. The delicate, chiming guitar work of ‘The Earth is not a Col... read full review |
 | Life-Changing Music 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
The evolution in Boards of Canada’s sound from the sparse beats of 1995’s ‘Twoism’ reaches its crowning glory in the magnificent ‘Geogaddi’. This is an incredibly rich, multi-layered and multi-faceted listenin... read full review |
 | Beautifully Imperfect 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Dearly loved by a devoted following of fans for their beautiful, soulful, semi-acoustic brand of melancholic Americana, Mark Kozelek’s Red House Painters were frustratingly just short of delivering that one kil... read full review |
| REM Are Back and It's A Blast 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
REM's stellar back catalogue accumulated over nearly 30 years must mean that they can afford to ignore their critics, but the new album `Accelerate' is such a different beast to its tepidly-received p... read full review |
| REM Are Back and It's A Blast 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
REM's stellar back catalogue accumulated over nearly 30 years must mean that they can afford to ignore their critics, but the new album `Accelerate' is such a different beast to its tepidly-received p... read full review |
 | Beautiful Sound Scapes Yes, ‘Fixed Context’ by Labradford is recorded by Steve Albini and released on Blast First but this is the opposite to a rock noise-fest. Using the sparsest of guitars, percussion so minimal it sound... read full review |
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