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Single Review: Har Mar Superstar - Lady,...
Here's something different for your Friday afternoon. It sounds more like Leo Sayer than Har Mar Superstar but that's...
Album Review: James Blake - Overgrown -...
*This was selected as one of Supajam's best bits of 2013, either by being the most read, specially chosen by our staff, or...
Album Review: Hadouken: Every Weekend
Hadouken!: Every Weekend Oh for goodness sake. I was really trying to like this one, as I remembered first...
Single Review: Mikill Pane - Good Feeling
Mikill Pane has been lurking in the background for a while now. His collaborations with Ed Sheeran, Rizzle Kicks, Example,...
Album Review: David Bowie - The Next Day
Bowie is as good a cultural barometer as we’ve got. His endless permutations have been driven from without as much as...
Single Review: Parquet Courts - Smart...
First of all, this is currently an exclusive for the Guardian so follow that link for the track... Here's the 'B'...
Single Review: Passion Pit - Constant...
Passion Pit have today released a remix of their single 'Constant Conversations' by strange choice of Three 6...
Single Review: Vondelpark -California...
Vondelpark started life as one the many 'UK Garage plus shoegaze guitars' outfits that sprung up a couple of years...
Single Review: Don Broco - Whole Truth
All round the land A&R men know that the shiny production line pop gig is up. Pretty much everyone has come to their senses...
Single Review: Rush Midnight - Don't Give...
Well this is quite the sleazy late night groover. I can't be certain that Rush Midnight plays his keyboards whilst wearing...
Album Review: Heavy on the Strawberries
If Heavy on the Strawberries were releasing their eponymous debut album a few years ago reviews would have started with a...
Album Review: Nick Cave The Bad Seeds -...
Push the Sky Away is a triumphant return. Nick Cave’s 15th album with the Bad Seeds eschews the noise rock of his recent...
Single Review: Damian Marley - Dem Neva...
Damian Marley proves that, despite what all good sense might suggest, Wild West honky tonk piano and ruffneck dancehall are a...
Single Review: Tribes - How the Other...
When you write about indie bands daily, you end up cynical. It's impossible not to. Every year a new bunch of chancers roll...
Single Review: Black Manila - Shake That...
Black Manila have been holed up in Toe Rag Studios, infamous alchemist lair responsible for the White Stripes Elephant as well...
Album Review: Mmoths - Diaries
By the 90s my Mum’s radical 80’s feminism had evolved into a vague, kindly spiritualism that took in positive...
Album Review: Thenewno2: Beautiful...
Well then. The soundtrack to a supernatural teenish romdram, brought to us by a band fronted by George Harrison’s son....
Single Review: They Might Be Giants -...
Debuted today on Stereogum, this new track from eighties' veteran's They Might Be Giants is a peach. With a...
Single Review: I Used To Be A Sparrow -...
Swedish act I Used To Be A Sparrow have produced something genuinely fresh sounding. Warpaint on Invisible Children stops...
Single Review: Rhye - Open (Ryan...
Ryan Hemsworth has become the go to guy for emotive post dubstep-ery, so it's no surprise that he's been enlisted to...
Single Review: The Family Rain - Carnival
Apparently The Family Rain come from Bath. They sound, however, more like they were found spitting and drunk, swinging bloodied...
Single Review: Charlie Brown - On My Way
Charlie Brown is 'on his way'. Cheers for the warning Charlie, it's given us just enough time to double lock the...
Single Review: Parquet Courts - Borrowed...
"It seems these days I'm captive in this borrowed time." This is an unbelievable track from a New York band whose...
Single Review: Theme Park - Tonight
Theme Park take a crack at rustling up some 80s yacht rock and don't do too bad a job at all. Tonight is as polished as a...
Single Review: Petite Noir - Disappear
Is there some irony in a young black South African tethering afrobeat guitar to coldwave indie in the style of every chancer...
Album Review: Atoms for Peace - Amok
Atom’s for Peace come with all the advance publicity- and attendant weight of expectation- your jobbing supergroup...
Single Review: Thom Yorke's Atoms For...
The trickling' build-up to the release of the Thom Yorke/Nigel Godrich/Flea/Joey Waronker/Maouro Refosco project Atoms for...
Album Review: Doldrums - Lesser Evil
Doldrums is a great word. That double ‘D’ makes an abstract emotional state onomatopoeic, the feeling of being...
Live Review: Modestep Thekla Bristol -...
Modestep @ Thekla, Bristol 7th Feb Jesus Christ. I am deep in the belly of an old boat, And I want to cut my fucking...
Live Review: The Pictish Trail feat....
South Street in Reading is an arts centre that I really hope is frequented often by the locals. It's the sort of small...
Single Review: DJ Koze ft Caribou- Track...
We don't know if this is coming out as a single, or if it's just a teaser for DJ Koze's forthcoming longplayer, and...
Album Review: Veronica Falls - Waiting...
Round about this time last year Veronica Falls released a debut of unashamedly retro indie pop. There wasn’t a sample,...
Single Review: Frightened Rabbit - The...
I doubt it's the Scottish accent that makes Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchinson sing like he forgot all words last...
Album Review: Cosmo Jarvis - Think Bigger...
Stream the album in full under the review You could never accuse Cosmo Jarvis of a lack of ambition. Think Bigger he says, then...
Album Review: C2C - Tetra
Turntablism, like pagers, Baywatch and Johnny Depp being in good films, belongs in the 90s. Grandmaster Flash (debatably)...
Album Review: Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
With Wonderful, Glorious Mark Everett has jacked in his stints moonlighting as a film maker and author, and returned to his...
Single Review: Moon Duo - Ich Werde Sehen
Taking their Krautrock ambitions to a logical (if slightly predictable) conclusion, Moon Duo have resung I Can See auf Deutsche...
Single Review: Jagwa Ma - The Throw
Christ knows what they've been slipping in the water in Sydney these last couple of years, but there's a lot of kids...
Album Review: Julian Cope - Saint Julian...
Julian Cope has spent the last 3 decades worked his way up to legendary status, partially through his superbly curated...
Live Review: Trojan Sound System
Jungle versus Reggae was brought to Blue Mountain Club on Stokes Croft by Trojan Sounds and stellar ethical clothing company...
Single Review: Nite Jewel - Memory, Man
Romana Gonzalez's latest offering speeds up her synthetic funk to a skipping quick step, the jerking rhythm twitching oddly...
Album Review: Modestep - Evolution Theory
Modestep live in a world of big dumb statements. I’d say they don’t write music; they write sounds to accompany...
Single Review: San Cisco - Wild Things
Wild Things sounds like San Cisco went down the market, picked up a pop hit, then swapped it for a sack of magic beans on the...
Single Review: Evil Alien - Higher Than...
WARNING - The video below has boobs and bum and fanny. Do not scroll down if you are not willing to see that sort of filth....
Single Review: Eaux - Too Dark To Tell
It's a surprise that The xx's success hasn't seen bands and labels rushing to cash in on their uniquely sparse...
Single Review: Declan Zapala - Broken...
We first saw Declan Zapala busking at Hop Farm Festival back in July. We've kept an eye on him since then and were very...
Single Review: Teleman - Cristina
New on Moshi Moshi, Teleman's debut is admirably sparse, a slightly wonky 50's ballad reimagined with warm keys and...
Single Review: Example - Perfect Replacement
One of the convenient things about 2013 only being a couple of weeks old is that it allows for definites - in this case, that...
Single Review: Foxygen - San Francisco
As a rule, I'm against the lazy use of the term 'hipster' applied to anything with a hint of artiness about it. I...
Album Review: Dead Sons - The Hollers and...
Dead Sons exist in a yowling alternate universe where the Arctic Monkeys have been remade as a gore filled B movie splatter...
Single Review: Bombers - Drawing Buddy's...
Imagine if The Horrors were still The Horrors, but their singer was a bit crap. Hello Bombers! For some reason this Birmingham...
Album Review: Mice Parade - Candela
“Never mind what you know// It’s only what you believe in// As the grey hairs start to show” opens...
Single Review: Chapel Club - Good Together
Ummmm ... huh...? What the hell just happened? This has got, like, a drum machine. And then there's all these synthy...
Single Review: Jesse Ware - If You're...
Although the title may have you thinking different, this new single from Jesse Ware was featured on her album as 110%. One...
Single Review: Active Child - His Eye Is...
Now winter has truly drawn in we can't think of anything finer than gathering up the blankets, whipping together a hot...
Single Review: Local Natives - Breaker
With an opening riff lifted wholesale from The Four Tops Motown classic Reach Out, I'll Be There, I was expecting...
Album Review: Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee TV 2
As with last year’s Dirtee TV 1, Dizzee’s latest free mixtape is a return to the ruffneck, all aggy lyrics spat and...
Single Review: Thumpers - Dancing's Done
Newly signed to Transgeressive offshoot ParadYse Records, childhood friends Marcus Pepperell and John Hamson Jr make up the...
Single Review: Dido ft Kendrick Lamar -...
Dido? You remermber Dido right? Ohmygodgreatnews! She's back and as far as I can tell this is the same song she was singing...
Single Review: Toy - Make It Mine
TOY round off a great year with a wistful new single, Make It Mine. As ever the band deliver 80s tinged psychedelia, swirling...
Album Review: Ruff Sqwad - White Label...
Grime was birthed in one the UK’s sporadic inner city spasms, the regular bursts of crazy creative magic that swell up...
Album Review: Green Day - Tre
If you were a band running short on ideas, at the end of a long career mining pretty much the same three chords album after...
Single Review: Snoop Lion - Here Comes...
Snoop struggles to make a crap tune doesn't he? Even the grubby fingers of Guetta couldn't make him sound totally...
Single Review: Ships - Places
Be warned, I spilt ball scalding hot tea down my crisply pressed strides when the second half of Places kicked in. Just letting...
Album Review: Sinkane - Mars
SInkane is the musical guise of Sudanese New Yorker Ahmad Gallad. Gallad is known in muso circles as an excellent live player,...
Single Review: Wheatus - Lemonade
Yup, them. That band who did that song (and that awsome cover) in the early 2000s that you probably haven't heard from...
Single Review: Nick Cave and the Bad...
The first single from the forthcoming Bad Seeds album is the kind of hushed hell ballad that Nick Cave probably sings his kids...
Live Review: Temples at Shacklewell Arms
Friday night in the Shacklewell Arms is usually busy but tonight it is rammed. Getting into the evenings free Temples show is a...
Album Review: Rihanna - Unapologetic
It’s hard not to come to Unapologetic without preconceptions, and for its part, the album scarcely bothers trying to...
Live Review: Skip and Die at Cargo
The lone sitar and precussive onslaught of ‘Jungle Riot’ opens up Dutch / South African band Skip & Die’s...
Album Review: Pinch: MIA 2006-2010
Pinch: MIA 2006-2010 So. I was asked to review something called ‘MIA 2006-2010’ by someone called...
Live Review: Crystal Castles Brixton...
Tonight’s Crystal Castles show ends with Alice Glass sobbing into the microphone. It’s a weird end to an intense...
Single Review: Solange - Lovers In The...
Hi hipsters! I see you've all taken Solange Knowles deep within your bosom. You lurve her, right? Shame you weren't...
Single Review: The Vaccines - I Always Knew
An understated single from The Vaccines, I Always Knew shows that everyone has to slow it down once in a while. This is...
Single Review: Haim - Don't Save Me
The buzz around Haim has been bubbling under for most of 2012. The three sisters are on the brink of a tour supporting Florence...
Album Review: Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Deftones never really seemed like the sort of band to stray from their trademark sonic attack, did they? And...
Album Review: Joe Driscoll Sekou Kouyate...
Faya is a meeting of musicians; New Yorker Joe Driscoll and Guinean kora maestro Sekou Kouyate. Driscoll speaks no French and...
Album Review: Action Bronson - Rare...
Bronson inhabits the tiny niche of fat, bald, ginger, Albanian descendent rappers with their own cooking show, who happen to be...
Album Review: Gramme - Fascination
Timing is everything in pop. Come too soon and, at best you look like an eccentric, a maniac or a freak, and, at worst no one...
Single Review: Two Door Cinema Club - Sun
Really, really inoffensive indie pop from Two Door Cinema Club. The jaunty bits pop and spangle along in a jolly enough way,...
Single Review: Deap Vally - End of the World
A bag of filthy, greasy, stanky rock n roll from Deap Vally. Our statistics department have calculated that End of the World is...
Single Review: Autre Ne Veut - Counting
With Counting Autre Ne Veut has made something like syrup covered, home made ice cream. He's going for the gloopy thick RnB...
Album Review: Algernon Doll - Camomile
Algernon Doll is the brain child of Ewan Grant, a Scottish musician who’s turned away from his punk roots to record a...
Album Review: Duke Slammer - What Four?...
The new EP from Luke Sanger aka Duke Slammer (the man behind last years out-of-nowhere album ‘every body sweat’)...
Album Review: Benjamin Gibbard - Former...
Benjamin Gibbard, probably better known as Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service frontman, is the sort of songwriter to...
Album Review: Crystal Castles - (III)
There is a complete stream of the album at the bottom of this review On (III) Crystal Castles may well have created their...
Album Review: Calvin Harris - 18 Months
Christ knows what the inside of Calvin Harris’s brain looks like. On the basis of 18 Months it’s a very VERY...
Album Review: Kendrick Lamar - good kid...
Kendrick Lamar is Compton’s new hope. The LA district was put on the map with NWA’s incendiary one-two punch of...
Album Review: Club Smith - Appetite For...
Album sequencing may be less important in our shuffling, pick n’ mix age, but I still can’t think of any decent...
Single Review: Jesse Ware - Night Light
OK, I know Im going against the grian here, but does no one else find Jesse Ware a teeeensy bit bloody boring? I know Night...
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