Like most music from the Steel City these days, we can't escape the Arctic Monkeys link. Jon has previously been in two other bands, the first named Judan Suki along with Alex Turner.
As it is, Home Again, his sixth solo album, offers great hope for the future - both in its existence and its musical language. The late summer promise offered by the single You'll Never know is fu...
And that's fine, because Closer To Fine is a bit complicated too. Watson's high tenor voice lands somewhere at the Chris Martin end of the Jeff Buckley scale. Luscious Life even borrows what s...
As the soundtrack to extreme snowboarding and surfing videos, this record would work a treat. Homespun atmospherics envelop Harte's stoner-grunge vocals and multi-instrument multi-tracking, FX ped...
We live in an age where many artists feel compelled to release albums every year lest the music buying public forget them. Manu Chao has left a staggering six year gap between his last album and La Ra...
Trading as an old-fashioned four-piece, there is an unspoken fifth member of The Rumble Strips, which appears to be, by their press pictures, a ruddy big drum which they've been carting about acro...
While the label continues to be highly active, Pollock's old band sadly parted ways in 2005 and she subsequently decided to pursue a solo career. This debut work is the collected fruits of her lab...
If you liked She's So Lovely, you'll probably like this album. The tempo doesn't change much throughout the 11 songs, making it rather difficult to distinguish between them. There's no...
It's so easy these days to take and borrow from Pop's glittering past and come up with a sum mixture of dreary, prosaic commercial rock, and life's just too short. Welcome then, Montreal...