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LOSTPROPHETS Are Back This April With Weapons

By on Jan 29, 2012 in News
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LOSTPROPHETS have announced the release of their fifth and brand new album ‘Weapons’ and their first headline UK tour in two years.

The new album is released on April 2nd and is followed by a 14 date tour of the UK and Ireland culminating with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.

The Welsh six-piece will be performing at the following venues -

16-Apr-12 Belfast Ulster Hall
18-Apr-12 Liverpool O2 Academy
19-Apr-12 Liverpool O2 Academy
20-Apr-12 Manchester O2 Academy
21-Apr-12 Leeds O2 Academy
23-Apr-12 Birmingham O2 Academy
24-Apr-12 Aberdeen Music [...]

Blancmange – Blank Burn

By on Mar 07, 2011 in Albums, Reviews
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Having spent 23 years in the musical wilderness; the release of ‘Blank burn’ comes as nothing less than an intriguing surprise.  The fact that it has become so eagerly anticipated is a further incredulity, but with the likes of La Roux shamelessly plagiarising their sound, it was perhaps inevitable the duo would return, ‘Blanc Burn’ being their first album in 23 years.

Blancmange split in 1984, leaving a trail of mediocre, insecure albums, however they are yet to garner the critical [...]

Sophie Barker releases new single Say Goodbye and streams Lucky Elephant Remix

By on Feb 25, 2011 in News
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Sophie Barker, the voice behind Zero 7’s stunning first two albums, returns with her new single ‘Say Goodbye’, released 14th March 2011. Following her regarded work with Groove Armada, The Egg, Tocadisco, Grooverider and her debut solo album ‘Earthbound’, Ho Hum Records are delighted to announce the first release from her long-awaited second album, ‘Seagull’, which takes flight in May 2011.

‘Say Goodbye’ delights with its French pop sensibilities, with Sophie’s unique vocal leading the acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer and piano melody [...]

THE SWORD ANNOUNCE UK TOUR IN MAY

By on Feb 23, 2011 in News

Texan metal warriors The Sword are pleased to announce UK tour dates for May 2011. The band had to re-schedule touring the Warp Riders album last October due to former drummer Trivett Wingo suddenly leaving the band for personal reasons but since then the band have hit the road with a new drummer. These 5 UK performances will feature the formidable skills of notorious intergalactic bounty drummer, Kevin Fender, a veteran of the Austin music scene best known for his [...]

Bill Kirchen – Word To The Wise

By on Jul 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

Bill Kirchen has been hailed as the original “Dieselbilly” guitarist, as a standout singer and songwriter, and as a pioneer of rock and roll honky-tonk with the band Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. Now Kirchen is headed for a breakout with his new album of all-star duets, ‘Word to the Wise’ (Proper).
Full of humour, Telecaster twang, and serving up heaping portions of rock and roll, country, boogie-woogie and Western swing, ‘Word to the Wise’ features duets with nearly [...]

Allan’s Grand Day Out – Maastricht

By on Jul 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

The ear-tickling atmospheres of ‘Maastricht’ are one of the most refreshing surprises of this summer.

Four musical watercolours oozing with Balearic beats à la Delorean via JJ, defused through electro-folktronic glitches as only Dntel’s Tamborello and Electric President would assemble.

‘Allan’s Grand Day Out’ is a duo, composed by Zoe Klinck and Bryn White. They come from London, but their musical sensibility is a melting pot of sounds, coming from Spain, chilled through the Morr Music sound of Berlin, and refined with [...]

Department Of Eagles – Archive 2003 – 2006

By on Jul 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

Soundtrack for a folk-tale: this could be the best way to describe exhaustively ‘Archive 2003-2006’ in four words.

Six songs and five sketches coming straight from Daniel Rossen, voice and guitar of Grizzly Bear, and Fred Nicolaus, produced by multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor, member of Brooklyn-based quartet too.

‘Archive 2003-2006’ gathers the works composed in the hiatus between ‘The Whitey on the Moon’, then reissued as ‘The Cold Nose’, and ‘In Ear Park’, the critically acclaimed album of 2008.

It’s hard to find any [...]

Max Richter – Infra

By on Jul 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

‘Infra’ started life as a ballet soundtrack, however this is no ordinary ballet. Max Richter’s influences lie much more in modern composers such as Philip Glass than the traditional masters, and so the results here are a ballet, but not as we know it.

We start with the haunting buildup of ‘Infra 1’, some hushed morse code beeps and static crackle fading to retreat behind an ethereal string buildup masked by some resonant single electronic notes, before that too disappears, sliding [...]

John Cunningham – 1998-2002 Homeless House/Happy-Go-Unlucky

By on Jul 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

Sometimes, angst just doesn’t cut it. For all the anger and screaming and life-isn’t-fair shredding apart of your own mentality, life and the human mind never work as simply as feeling demonstratively angry. And that’s where John Cunningham steps in, with his silky-smooth melancholy that seems to have been totally bypassed by the last few decades of music and their tendency to overemote. This release brings together his two albums ‘Homeless House’ and ‘Happy-Go-Unlucky’ into an 18-song collection [...]

Stagecoach – Crash My Ride EP

By on Jul 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

Well, what do we have here? No, really, what do we have? Because I’m not entirely sure. For all intents and purposes we have the new extended play, or EP,  ‘Crash My Ride’ by Stagecoach. There are six songs on it. And I suppose that’s a starting point.

The first ten seconds of opener ‘Hieroglyphics’ drags in a heavy guitar squall and mass of dense feedback that a Norwegian black metal band would be proud of. And then the brooding DOOM [...]

Boohgaloo Zoo – Boohgaloo Zoo

By on Jul 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

Sometimes unlikely combinations go very well together. Strawberries and pepper, for example. And what Boohgaloo Zoo have done on their self-titled release is something similar. By bringing together elements of hip-hop, jazz, and electro dance, they’re allowed the contrasts to accentuate one another, and it has paid off.

The entire album is a pleasure to listen to, from the fluid intro (aptly titled ‘Intro’) which shows the musical knowhow of the group, through to the smooth and pleasurable closer ‘Tonight’.  The [...]

Bombay Bicycle Club – Flaws

By on Jul 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

Releasing a totally acoustic album early in your career can be a massive gamble, especially when you’re also riding on the possibility of the dreaded second album syndrome, but Bombay Bicycle Club have ploughed on regardless, releasing ‘Flaws’ as an intrepid departure from familiar shores of a sound grounded in plugged-in indie rock.

The first thing I notice about this album, is its fragile sound. The guitar work, particularly on tracks such as ‘Leaving Blues’ is with a doubt incredibly beautiful, [...]

Noonday Underground – The K-O Chorale

By on Jul 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

I resent this album. It makes me feel redundant as a music journalist. And I’m not even that much of a music journalist, so I need all the help I can get here! The reasoning behind this is that I truthfully do not know what to make of this album. It has all the ingredients of something completely unique from the norm and something refreshingly alternative, but in reality its “different” in the same way that kid at school who [...]

Kid Adrift – Oxytocin EP

By on Jul 08, 2010 in Uncategorized

Kid Adrift is an act that’s incredibly difficult to write off as one particular genre. Merging elements of electronica, dance, and occasionally dubstep, Iain Campbell (the man behind Kid Adrift) could be called a lot of things. This is by no means a negative thing – indeed it can be seen as a testament to the complexity of Kid Adrift’s output. One listen of his newest release, the Oxytocin EP, will dispel any doubts you may be harbouring about Campbell’s [...]

Larsen B – Musketeer

By on Jul 08, 2010 in Uncategorized

From the opening chords and swirling melodies of ‘Codeine’, I know immediately who Larsen B reminds me of. Piano driven melodies, warm vocals, tender-hearted cabaret tinged style… if they do not own at least one Duke Special album, I will eat my hat. (And anyone who knows me will vouch for that as being a strong oath.)

However, it has to be said that despite the obvious starting point, ‘Musketeer’ is a largely solid album with a charm of its [...]

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