ALBUMS REVIEWS
The Enemy - 'Streets In The Sky'
There was something almost laughably presumptuous about The Enemy’s decision to call their second album ‘Music For The People’ in 2009. To recap: the Coventry band had just followed up their Weller-scented debut ‘We’ll Live And Die In...
Virals - 'Coming Up With The Sun EP'
Third time lucky for Shaun Hencher? Virals finds the former Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg and Lovvers man ditching both the fretwanking and gutlord urch-punk of his former bands and embracing, wholeheartedly, slacker rock. The four tracks on this, his...
Cold Specks - 'I Predict A Graceful Explusion'
There is, of course, a great deal to be said for the virtues of a gleaming set of pipes, regurgitating their keeper’s soul through a larynx so vast it could swallow black holes. But listening in on the quiet storm at the heart of Toronto’s...
Gaz Coombes - 'Here Comes The Bombs'
In the Britpop race, Supergrass weren’t so much the fat kids lagging at the back as the weirdos that ran in the wrong direction. It’s easy to forget how good they actually were. With ‘Here Come The Bombs’, frontman Gaz Coombes does a...
Mac Miller - 'Blue Slide Park'
In hip-hop years, 20-year-old Malcolm ‘Mac Miller’ McCormick is practically old school. He’s released one album and seven mixtapes since 2007. Then he was featured as part of a wet dream of hip-hop hopefuls alongside Yelawolf and Lil B on...
The Temper Trap - 'The Temper Trap'
In an NME feature in October 2009, Australia’s The Temper Trap talked about how worried they were that their debut album ‘Conditions’ was a bit… wet, that their natural edge was chiselled away by producer Jim Abbiss (of ‘Whatever...
Devin - 'Romancing'
Devin Therriault’s one of those dudes whose music gets compared to all other music. Internetting (try it yourself!) will throw up the New York Dolls, Ramones, The Black Keys, Joan Jett, The Strokes, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, The...
Exitmusic - 'Passage'
United in matrimony and music, Brooklyn-based duo Devon Church and Aleksa Palladino embrace their Radiohead-inspired name in sound and sentiment. Their debut album proper quivers and quakes with the cinematic electronics and emotional abandonment...
Soulsavers - 'The Light The Dead See'
The idea came about when Soulsavers were hand-selected to support Depeche Mode on their 2009 tour – a dressing room “We should really…” chat that became reality. Dave Gahan (who provides all vocals here) and mainman Rich Machin have spoken...
Saint Etienne - 'Words And Music By Saint Etienne'
Ever felt a connection to a group or a song so intense and completely one-sided that it defied and confounded all logic or reality? Of course you have, you’re reading this magazine. That being the case, this record is the soundtrack to your...
