Tag: "Albums"

LOSTPROPHETS Are Back This April With Weapons

By aaamusic on Jan 29, 2012 in News

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 aaamusic on Mar 07, 2011 in Albums, Reviews

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 aaamusic on Feb 25, 2011 in News

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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 aaamusic 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 [...]