UFO – The Best Of A Decade

UFO are, in their own way, one of the most influential bands you’ll have never heard of. Although they’ve been around longer than a fair few of us (your fair reviewer included) have been kicking about on this world, … Read More

Angra – Aqua

It has to be said, when Brazil is mentioned, one doesn’t immediately make an association with power metal. However, Angra are here to try to change that with their cascading guitars and suitably melodramatic songs. Combining the manic obsession … Read More

Emiliana Torrini – Rarities (CD2)

Part two of Emiliana Torrini further continuation of beautiful synthesised lady pop. Starting off with the video version track of ‘Easy’, I found myself singing along to the catchy contagious chorus, and swaying from side to side, over taken … Read More

Dungen – Skit I Alt

It has to be said, just because something is easy on the ears doesn’t make it any less rewarding. Case in point being Dungen’s latest release: ‘Skit I Alt’. Given the dreamy pleasantness of the album’s sound, you may … Read More

Gaudi – No Prisoners

So if you were to ask me my opinion on the dub/dance/electronica scene as it is today, you would receive a blank, uninformed look. However, even I can recognise flashes of originality held within Gaudi’s latest album, ‘No Prisoners’.

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The Winchell Riots – Red Square EP

Red Square is the new EP from indie newcomers The Winchell Riots. Defining them as ‘indie’ may be a bit too vague though – in the opening track Love, The Great Olympic Sport it seems the band have more … Read More

Maximum Balloon – Maximum Balloon

Maximum Balloon’s self-titled debut is the brainchild of Dave Sitek, producer and founding member of TV On The Radio. Sitek’s been busy behind the scenes of an eclectic set of records over the past decade, producing the likes of … Read More

Emiliana Torrini – Rarities (CD1)

CD number one from the lovely Emiliana Torrini‘s latest album ‘Rarities‘, was a beauty of synthesised emotional lady pop.

At first I was a little questionable due my initial impressions of the opening track of the album; ‘Dead Things’. … Read More

Love Deuce – It Takes Two

The best thing of Noughties is that they have swept away the dance music and sounds typical of 90s, so I think it were unnecessary to come back to that kind of music in a period of great success … Read More

Pantera – Cowboys From Hell

Pantera are a legend among metal, and ‘Cowboys From Hell’ is often considered their magnum opus as it were, writing half of the book on heavy metal as we know it today, and cramming as much of the other … Read More