It may have taken a guest appearance from Mike Skinner to push Kano firmly into the public domain but trust me, that's where he belongs. As a teaser the streets were left salivating with the creatively titled The Mixtape earlier in 2007 - promising a darker and grimier sound from an artist comfo...
For those of you who need such history lessons, the Durutti Column can almost be described as Factory's manufactured band, built by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus from the ashes of other Manchester ...
Unlike what has come before, Strawberry Jam is easy - well, easier - to handle. It may be due to the band getting a little older, wanting to appeal more to the masses, or maybe because it has a new, b...
Anderson, whose most popular moniker is King Creosote, stands at the junction of the two types of music without being obviously electronic. Yet only ten seconds in to Bombshell, it's possible to s...
Don't be fooled by the title. MOR, it's fair to say, is not something Alabama 3 have ever ventured near - and the white lines in the road are safe from any of the band's tyres once again. ...
Not that you can always tell. Aesop Rock's idiosyncratic approach to metaphor and structure would keep all but the hardiest interpreter busy for months searching for meaning. As a result None Shal...
Firstly, the music itself is perhaps the ultimate destination of a man whose aural journey was influenced so strongly by his one-time Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, himself a former pupil of f...
Swayzak, too, were only just beginning - but clearly feel a decade on that now is the time to present a more mature side to their musical development. With James Taylor returning from paternity leave ...
But whatever collective term you use to slice it, the new album from Dot Allison, one time poster maiden of dreamy electronica, one time pre-Moss Doherty cohort, veers, ever so slightly, on the side o...
After their disastrously received second album Kokopelli, it looks like Kosheen have taken stock and returned to the drawing board. It's something of a renaissance for them, as some of those revie...