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The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
The Shortwave Set Replica Sun MachineWall Of SoundAlbum ReviewTimeless, classic pop music - you can't beat it, at least when it's done right. Abba, The Beach Boys, The Carpenters, Duran Duran, Adam And The Ants,...
Review posted on 29th April 2008
The Death Set - Worldwide
The Death Set WorldwideCounterAlbum ReviewProgressive rock? Never heard of it. Slushy ballads? I don't know what you mean. Real musical instruments? Does a Fisher Price keyboard and three-stringed toy guitar count? Probably just some of...
Review posted on 29th April 2008
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See But Cannot Feel
Atlas Sound Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See But Cannot Feel4ADAlbum ReviewAs the main singer/songwriter for Atlanta experimentalists Deerhunter, Bradford Cox has already carved his name in rock and roll's guidebook of mavericks...
Review posted on 28th April 2008
On The Bone - Compilation Number Two
On The BoneCompilation Number TwoAlbum Review With London too busy trying to create the next big scene, Sheffield still cloning the next Arctic Monkeys and Manchester desperately clinging on to the coat tails of its...
Review posted on 28th April 2008
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight Fat Cat Album Review Halfway through the record, Scott Hutchison announces 'Jesus is just a Spanish boy's name' and 'Bright Pink Bookmark' is kicked into life. Welcome, folks, to...
Review posted on 28th April 2008
Portishead - Third
Portishead Third(Island)Album ReviewWithout dwelling too much on the past, the similarities between 1994 and 2008 as far as music and popular culture are concerned stare spookily back at one another like some delayed mirror image....
Review posted on 24th April 2008
Grammatics - D.I.L.E.M.M.A.
Grammatics D.I.L.E.M.M.A.Dance To The RadioSingle ReviewLeeds quartet Grammatics seem to have all the boxes ticked in the right places. An ear for a good pop tune, highly talented musicianship developed from years of being classically...
Review posted on 24th April 2008
Portishead - Machine Gun
Portishead Machine GunIsland RecordsSingle ReviewBritpop, Nu metal, new rave, the second coming of radio friendly AOR and The bloody Libertines may all have come and gone in the eleven years since Portishead last graced us...
Review posted on 10th April 2008
Los Campesinos - My Year In Lists
Los Campesinos! My Year In ListsWichitaSingle ReviewFor a band who seem to have split the masses pretty much in half in terms of whether their merits are to be appreciated or deplored, Los Campesinos! certainly...
Review posted on 10th April 2008
Avenging Force - The Avenging Force
Avenging ForceThe Avenging ForceSea RecordsAlbum ReviewAvenging Force may have only been around for the best part of a year or so, be named after an 80s thriller movie and hail from the backstreets of Liverpool...
Review posted on 10th April 2008
Umalali - The Garifuna Women's Project
UmalaliThe Garifuna Women's ProjectAlbum reviewBearing the Stories of Their People in Songs of Joy, Sorrow, Strength and BeautyUmalali: The Garifuna Women's Project presents the hidden voices of Garifuna women to the worldHere is a record...
Review posted on 31st March 2008
The Teenages - Reality Check
The Teenages Reality Check Merok Album Review Thinking of France in a musical context is akin to flicking through the channels of a digital set-top box. Start at zero and work up to 500, occasionally...
Review posted on 17th March 2008
The Old Romantic Killer Band - You Don't Know How To Love
The Old Romantic Killer Band You Don't Know How To Love Bad Sneakers Single Review Not that we'd ever suggest for one second that Leeds is the most depressing place on earth but these two...
Review posted on 17th March 2008
Sunny Day Sets Fire - End Of The Road
Sunny Day Sets Fire End Of The Road Single Review Brikabrak How London-based five-piece Sunny Day Sets Fire ended up in England, let alone forming a band together is one for the archives. Indeed if...
Review posted on 17th March 2008
Youthmovies - Good Nature
Youthmovies Good Nature Album Review Drowned In Sound Recordings As hard to believe as it may be, 'Good Nature' is actually Youthmovies' first full-length album. For a band who seem to have been around for...
Review posted on 12th March 2008
Kate Nash and Black Kids, Nottingham Rock City
Kate Nash & Black Kids Nottingham Rock City. Sunday 2nd March. 2008 Live Review As parents drop their children off while teenage girls run around the cloakroom area throwing lollipops and empty cola bottles at...
Review posted on 5th March 2008
65daysofstatic - Dance Parties
65daysofstaticDance Parties EPEP Review(Monotreme Records)Its difficult to understand the long term appeal of Sheffield's 65daysofstatic, particularly as what seemed like an interesting and varied concept from the outset, has gradually turned into three albums worth...
Review posted on 20th February 2008
Glasvegas - Its My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
Glasvegas Its My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me CrySingle Review(Sane Man)For a band that can basically go through their entire repertoire and pick out any one of them as a potential 45, Glasvegas certainly...
Review posted on 20th February 2008
The Little Ones - Ordinary Song
The Little Ones Ordinary Song Album Review (Heavenly Records) San Francisco five-piece The Little Ones are one of those bands whose entire existence screams - or rather whispers - "inoffensive" in bold, black type no...
Review posted on 7th February 2008
The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
The Cave Singers Invitation Songs Album Review (Matador) Seattle may be renowned for its lank-haired, flannel shirted rock of the early 1990s but there's something more roots-based, and dare I say it, substantial floating through...
Review posted on 7th February 2008
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
These New Puritans Beat Pyramid Angular Records Album Review Having emerged from the same Southend Junk Club scene as the likes of The Horrors, The Violets and more recently Ipso Facto, the one thing that...
Review posted on 28th January 2008
Wild Beasts - Assembly
Wild Beasts Assembly (Domino)Single ReviewWhenever I hear a high-pitched vocal shattering crystal and china all around me, my immediate reaction is to recommend said individual for either a role in the opera or worse still,...
Review posted on 5th December 2007
Stuffy & The Fuses - Metal Queen Theme
Stuffy & The FusesMetal Queen ThemeThis Is Fake DIYSingle ReviewTime stands still in Stuffyworld, where it is permanently 1996, Bis have just appeared on Top Of The Pops and Urusei Yatsura have released yet another...
Review posted on 5th December 2007
Delays - Love Made Visible
Delays Love Made Visible EPFictionEP ReviewNot so long back, Southampton four-piece Delays were being touted as the future custodians of British guitar-orientated pop. Unfortunately, and despite many attempts at trying, theyâve never really matched the...
Review posted on 5th December 2007
Plastic Fuzz - Plastic Fuzz 6
Plastic FuzzPlastic Fuzz 6EP ReviewContinuing in the growing trend of one man bands comes Mark Shahid, aka Plastic Fuzz, a guy who to date has recorded six EPs and an album containing 100 songs. Whether...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Kate Nash, Nottingham Trent University Live Review
Kate Nash Nottingham Trent University,Friday 2nd November 2007,Live ReviewWhether or not you view Ms. Nash as the girl next door made good or an evil mockney stage school impostor, thereâs no denying a certain element...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Frightened Rabbit - Be Less Rude
Frightened RabbitBe Less RudeSingle ReviewStraight out of the grim side of Glasgow come Frightened Rabbit, a trio whose dark tales of twisted normality put the greasy spoon into everyday kitchen sink dramas.‘Be Less Rude’ is...
Review posted on 12th November 2007
Arcade Fire - Nottingham Arena
Arcade Fire Nottingham Arena Wednesday 31st October Live Review Win Butler isn't a happy man. 'If anything else gets thrown on stage tonight me and my band are never playing in Nottingham again' he announces...
Review posted on 5th November 2007
Chris T-T - This Gun Is Not A Gun
CHRIS T-T This Gun Is Not A Gun EP EP Review Having been sat around the peripheries of the London scene for a good few years now, gallant troubadour Chris T-T finally looks to have...
Review posted on 5th November 2007
Various Artists - The Mules present, Pick Your Own
Various, The Mules presentPick Your OwnAlbum Review As the London scene splinters into numerous different divides and categories, The Mules have at least put their money where their mouths are in trying to capture the...
Review posted on 22nd October 2007
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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
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Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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