Posts Tagged ‘alternative’
Monday 08 August, 2011
Homeward At Daybreak by Big Mosey | EP Review
Conceived in Brooklyn, New York, this pairing of “delirious and victorious” alternative rockers have a vibe which I feel is best matched to Stiltskin, singers of the ’94 Levi’s Jeans commercial with their one hit wonder ‘Inside’. With Big Mosey having influences like Pearl Jam, The Black Keys and Kings Of Leon, we already have an idea of what their musical sound resembles.
Tuesday 12 July, 2011
Taking Back Sunday by Taking Back Sunday | Album Review
Over time the band has had members come, members go and even members that have gone and come back again. Only one band member has been part of the band since day nought.
Listening to the latest album, their fifth studio release which has been self-titled as Taking Back Sunday, it is full of wondrous, glorious, foaming-at-the-mouth, 21st century rock n roll.
Tuesday 05 July, 2011
The Future Is Medieval by Kaiser Chiefs | Album Review | Official Music Video
Now they’ve gone through to their 4th LP after a gap of almost 3 years they appear to be back refreshed, revitalised and very much full of new material. 20 new tracks fill up the digital release so they have definitely been stock piling their work.
Monday 13 June, 2011
Suck It And See by Arctic Monkeys | Album Review
This being their fourth band release – whilst under other guises and side projects others have been unleashed – here we have a more mature and subtle sound than previous works. They have already been out and about and impressed many in the press, media and fans. Here it seems that they are simply making music that they currently enjoy creating and performing. Still stylishly sensitive. Still executed with an elegant swagger. Still lyrically cultured. Still Arctic Monkeys.
Monday 06 June, 2011
Everybody Wah by Bosco Delrey | Album Review
Having the sound of psychedelic, blues, rock and roll in your MP3 player nowadays is something quite rare when it once used to be peppered around on many a vinyl player circa 1965 when James Douglas “Jim” Morrison and The Doors first formed.
Monday 23 May, 2011
Rome by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi ft. Jack White & Norah Jones | Album Review
The thing I like most out of a majority of collaborative works I have heard is that you tend to get the best from one person, the best from another and then they join forces to produce something which is far better than what could have been done by one person alone. Here is Rome.
Tuesday 03 May, 2011
Wounded Rhymes by Lykke Li | Album Review
Angels are in fact, a myth. Not real. Fiction. Made up. Or are angels in fact what we depict to be someone who is or appears to be a divine messenger or a darling beauty? If that is the case, then this is in fact an angel. With a sweet voice of appearing of naive innocence, Lykke Li has the look of an celestial being and a sound to match.
Sunday 24 April, 2011
Blow by Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross | EP Review
I seem to be bumping a lot of electro-acoustic work. The perfect stuff for hangovers and comedowns on a Sunday afternoon from the mayhem of the night and early morning just passed before. My darling lady and partner agrees totally being as she has just returned from a ravers reunion with her old school mates. The ‘Blow EP’ by Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross is perfect for this afternoon and any.
Thursday 21 April, 2011
Walk The River by Guillemots | Album Review
When listening to lots of music, sometimes I get stuck for words. Trying the find the right descriptive words is not always that easy for me. I can find the right words to use for describing this profound, earnest and affectionate album by the Guillemots. They are the only words I need to use, or their derivatives.
Monday 11 April, 2011
Euphoric Heartbreak by Glasvegas | Album Review
Glasgow, Scotland is not a depressing place. It is a beautiful city full of culture but like many cities across all of the lands, there are some areas which can be deemed as a wee bit miserable. A little sad. Depressing maybe. But true Scotsmen will not get down about it. Shrug, deal with it and carry on regardless.
Tuesday 22 March, 2011
Passive Me, Aggressive You by The Naked And Famous | Album Review
This is MGMT crossed with The xx with essences of LCD Soundsystem. It’s glorious indie-pop with a very full and well structured sound. Every song is quite individual. Sweet and delicate yet powerful and poetically romantic.
Friday 11 March, 2011
Crack My Bones by The Shoes | Album Review
I don’t know where to begin with
I spotted a piece on them a few weeks ago with their single Stay the Same and even then I was taken aback. I found that they were sweet, warm and comforting. That is pretty much what the entire album is like.
Tuesday 11 May, 2010
Brothers by The Black Keys | Album Review
I am just wondering how an awesome band such as The Black Keys have totally deserted my radar though. I’ve never heard of them up until yesterday. I am entirely overwhelmed by the glorious psychedelic, Bluesy-Rock sound which could put many a 60′s Woodstock band to utter shame. This is superb!
Sunday 18 April, 2010
Black Rock by Joe Bonamassa | Album Review
Black Rock is the latest release from the Blues/Rock guitaring maestro that is, Joe Bonamassa. I could say living legend but if he has only recently passed my ears then I’ve either my head in the sand or his riffs haven’t carried over to me far enough.
Wednesday 14 April, 2010
Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom
If there was ever a voice that managed to captivate you. Place you into a dumb trance because of the sweet delights released from the vocal chords as well as the delectable vibrations emanating from a glorious harp. This is a voice that will certainly do that. What a trance I am now in.
Saturday 03 April, 2010
WHB by We Have Band | Album Review
The electronics are not strong enough nor as prominent to be classed as Electro. The instruments are not hard enough to be classed as Rock, so we have a subtle crossover and a delicate blend between the two.
Thursday 01 April, 2010
Tales From The Doombox by Subsource | Album Review
GALVANIZED bass and searing electro beats muscling their way out of the cyberpunk bubble with a boom rather than a bang. As James Brown may say, this IS my bag. This band with genuine aphrodisia are releasing their debut album with tunes that would perfectly suit the full moon moments where “The Bitten” change into the animals for the night unleashing deafening roars.
Thursday 25 March, 2010
More Than the Eiffel by Audio Bullys | Album Review
AUDIO BULLYS have returned with their vogue of the ever increasing in populartity, electro-punk. Are they still managing to produce some bombing tunes? With the release of their single Only Man with remixes left, right and centre from all of the colours of the dance music spectrum we do in did, have an absolutely brilliant record.
Wednesday 24 March, 2010
dub5step by deadmau5 The Beau Damion Edit
Sometimes producers put a couple of samples up online of their current works in progress. one chap took those samples and progressed them further. The sampler was deadmau5 and the man who made them his own is Beau Damion.
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
The Winter Of Mixed Drink by Frightened Rabbit | Album Review
RECENTLY with band such as Mumford & Sons, Fleet Foxes and here Frightened Rabbit we are blessed to have a great country brimming with talent. More so, Scotland. Glasgow is the home of these boys that bring a stew of wondrous sounds of big, cylindrical drums, piano’s and great harmonies of an orchestral, uplifting feel with the soothing, rawness of the Strathclyde dialect.
Wednesday 17 March, 2010
Tons Of Friends by Crookers | Album Review
Crude, filthy booms & claps superbly produced, lyrically bouncing with a certain uncouth attitude and sub-level bass under-layed deeply making me question the quality of my speakers.




























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