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Single Review: Benga - Icons ft Bebe Black
Benga's trying to navigate some middle ground between stadium smashing vocal dubstep and his own more ghostly brand of...
Single Review: Liars - No.1 Against the Rush
Liars are always an unknown quantity. They've evolved from angular New York punk funk, spent time as pagan witch drowning...
Album Review: Late Night Tales present...
The Late Night Tales series started (if memory serves me correct) at the birth of the noughties, back when mix CDs could, and...
Album Review: Two Wounded Birds- Two...
Margate, for those of you who don’t know it, is a weird place. Formerly the domestic holiday destination of choice,...
Single Review: The Mojo Fins - Sweet Spirit
The Mojo Fins weave intricate, introspective melodies on their latest EP- shades of Elbow and Fleet Foxes can be found in the...
Album Review: Gaggle - From the Mouth of...
If you took the Military Wives Choir, stripped away the husbands, jingoism, lumbering tunes, and Primark jeans, and swapped in...
Single Review: 2:54 - Creeping
A late night lit by the lights of an empty road, a mystery bundled up in your carboot, and a blood red moon, 2:54 supplying the...
Single Review: Fiction - Careful
Fiction have been building a steady fanbase with their sharply contoured art rock- 3 releases on trail blazing indie label...
Single Review: Neon Indian - Hex Girlfriend
Coming next week on Transgressive Records, it's THE SUMMER! YAY! The release of Hex Girlfriend appears to have been...
Single Review: Fort Lean - Sunsick
Fort Lean are a Brooklyn based 5 piece-- Hey! I bet you loved reading that sentence! Somewhere along the way, writing...
Single Review: Wild Belle - Keep You
Aaahhhh, blue eyed reggae. Preserve of luminaries such as UB40, The Police, Ace of Base and that titan of ‘riddim’...
Album Review: Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
The new Crocodiles thuds and billows like a fist wrapped in a loose paisley shirt. The band have upgraded (sidegraded?) the...
Live Review: The Vaccines - Brighton...
We managed to catch the last of their four-legged seaside tour… with the four London chaps, absolutely killing the...
Single Review: Animal Collective - Honeycomb
Animal Collective were everybody’s best kept secret. All the psyched-up music fans had their barrel headphones blurting...
Live Review: Camden Crawl - Saturday 5th May
There’s no denying it; Camden’s looking a bit knackered. The glory days of The Good Mixer belong in 90s nostalgia...
Live Review: SupaJam and Gibson EP Launch...
Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, 1st of May, 2012. So how was the first SupaJam/ Gibson EP launch? OK, well obviously we're biased...
Live Review: Spector - The Farmhouse,...
Spector - The Farmhouse, Canterbury 28.04.12 If you haven’t heard of Spector before, it won’t be long… The...
Album Review: Moonface - Heartbreaking...
So here it is: Spencer Krug's emergence from the darkness, unshaven, uncut, and uncoothed - he's back. In saying that,...
Live Review: Fast Track to Strawberry...
Well this was it; after months of searching & hundreds of entries The Live Grand Final for SupaJam’s “Fast...
Live Review: Live Review: Coachella 2012
After what appeared to be the hardest season for music festivals in UK and Europe this year, with Sonisphere’s...
Album Review: Santigold - Master of My...
Compared to the 30 years or so it took Santigold to get her first album out, the 4 year gap between that and this, her...
Album Review: Jack White - Blunderbuss
So here he is, Jack White all on his lonesome. No more Meg or Raconteurs to deflect attention, this is Jack’s show, and...
Single Review: Arctic Monkeys - Electricity
“The way R U Mine? has gone we are more into doing songs like that for now. We are kind of into the idea of doing a...
Album Review: Tu Fawning - A Monument
Portland’s Tu Fawning conjure a mystic world. They lurk in minor chords, then spring out, hooting from behind murky bass...
Single Review: Beach House - Lazuli
It’s Record Store Day on the 21st, and is there anything more appropriate for it than a Beach House single release?...
Single Review: Walkmen - Heaven
In 2010 I was lucky enough to attend Pavement’s ATP Festival at Minehead. The atmosphere of the weekend was spectacular;...
Single Review: Kwes - Igoyh
We never get tired of hearing bands try something spectacular here at SupaJam. Whether it’s musically, lyrically,...
Album Review: The Shins - Port Of Morrow
I was fourteen, sat cross-legged on the edge of my bed looking out of the window to a farmyard on a summer‘s...
Single Review: Man Without Country - Puppets
An epic missive from this Cardiff duo, Puppets stomps around like a glam shoegazing giant, all swirling arpeggiated synths, ice...
Single Review: Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
If you've listened to mainstream radio at all in 2012 then you will have heard Blue Jeans in heavy rotation- it's slick...
Single Review: Jimmy Edgar - This One's...
If you've ever wondered what TRON listens to when he's feeling frisky, you'll be happy to know that Jimmy...
Single Review: Black Dice - Pigs
Hi. I'm a music critic. Years of relentless exposure to new and wildly varying sounds have utterly crippled any sense of...
Single Review: Theme Park - Two Hours
Ahhhh yes, the 80s, that forgotten continent. If we didn't have Theme Park here to remind us exactly how the 80s sounded -...
Single Review: Single Review: Bombay...
Out 9th April, ‘How Can you Swallow So Much Sleep’ is the fourth single to be released from Bombay’s third...
Live Review: Odd Future at Brixton...
Odd Future have been reigniting indie kids love of hip hop by bolting the kinetics of a rock show onto the pared street boom...
Album Review: Graham Coxon - A and E
On Graham Coxon’s eighth album the former booze battering Blur man sounds, well, relaxed. A&E is Coxon’s homage...
Single Review: Black Veil Brides -...
Black Veil Brides – Ritual The usual glossy teen metal from BVB, who increasingly remind me of 90s dullards Counting...
Live Review: Two Jackals - Bullies - Fat...
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER// THE SOCIAL// OXFORD CIRCUS// MARCH 20TH If it feels a bit like an end of year school show at The Social...
Album Review: The Futureheads - Rant
Most innovations in pop music have been driven by technology – from the electric guitar amping blues into rock n roll, to...
Single Review: Beach House - Rocket Juice...
Beach House – Myth In which Beach House take ‘feeling a bit miserable’ and mould it into a basis for...
Single Review: A Plastic Rose - Build...
Luring you in with a build up of the remorseful sound of violin’s and cello’s Build from the Ground Up then slaps...
Album Review: Kindness - World, You Need...
On World, You Need a Change of Mind, Kindness mastermind Adam Bainbridge reimagines sleek 80s funk into a woozy blur; a...
Album Review: Dry The River - Shallow Bed
Dry the River are an A&R man’s dream- they carve out advert ready folk with ‘anthem’ cranked way past 11,...
Single Review: Duane the Teenage Weirdo -...
Duane the Teenage Weirdo – Postcard From Hell Prosaic band names are great. Look at ‘The Military Wives...
Single Review: Singles from Jagwar Ma -...
Jagwar Ma – Come Save Me Well now this right here is a glorious compact of classic pop and floppy, wide eyed...
Album Review: Antlered Man
Antlered Man - Giftes 1&2 Hailing from the Godawful South London borough of Bermondsey – once officially home to more...
Single Review: Dodgy - Veronica Falls -...
Single reviews 15-2-2012 Dodgy – What Became of You Dodgy ask ‘What Became of You’? Who knows if...
Single Review: New Releases Feb 8th
Friends – Friend Crush Sometimes being a New Yorker is a definite advantage. Take Friends. They’ve got a pretty...
Album Review: Django Django
Django Django defy description. Trying to pin down their sound is akin to the old fairground game of whacking plastic moles...
Album Review: Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Now Born To Die has been out a few days, we’ve had a chance to really listen to the first ‘event’ album of...
Single Review: This weeks new releases
The Kills – Last Goodbye Ten years into their existence, The Kills have unplugged the buzzsaw guitars and turned instead...
Live Review: Toy at The Shacklewell Arms...
Toy take to a stage flooded with the lava lamp projections of a Ken Kesey happening. They look part- long hair, 60s gear,...
Album Review: Beck Goldsmith - Hollow For...
With near 20 years since classic albums by Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack defined the particularly English sound of trip...
Single Review: Mikal Cronin Tide
Towards the end of the splendid 3 minute garage psyche out, Tide, Mikal Cronin bursts into a nerve splintering guitar solo that...
Album Review: Dizzee Rascal -...
So not officially a new album from Dizzee, but something far, far better- a mixtape return to the stanking gutter grime with...
Single Review: Mark Lanegan Band The...
This gravedigger is growling out blood red cult rock, dredged from America’s deepest South. Against a wall of thrumming...
Single Review: Drums of Death The Jerk
Seeing as I was so mean earlier today about Benny Benassi, I feel it’s time to redress the dance music balance. Skull...
Single Review: Benny Benassi Close To Me
A brilliant soundtrack, if, like me, you plan to spend tomorrow shoving a bunch of E’s up your arse, joyriding your...
Single Review: Noel Gallaghers High...
Look, when you sit in a chair you just want it to be a fucking chair, right? You don’t want it to be made of trifle, or...
Single Review: Bombay Bicycle Club Leave It
The third single drawn from their critically-acclaimed album A Different Kind of Fix, Leave It offers a sombre take on...
Single Review: The Milk B Roads
Here come The Milk then with their ‘geezer’ soul. Sounding like a low rent mix of Cee-Lo Green and Vic Reeves...
Single Review: Throwing Snow
Well this one’s a real game of two halves. First up, it’s all twinkle toed fairy plonking 2 step synth...
Single Review: Dum Dum Girls Crocodiles...
Newsflash! The Christmas song from Little Mix is shit! We're not knocking the girls themselves, just whichever cog in the...
Single Review: Stealing Sheep - Jack in...
Stealing Sheep – Noah & The Paper Moon Hailing from Liverpool, spiritually Stealing Sheep inhabit the...
Album Review: Black Lips - El Camino
Fame has come both steadily and suddenly for the Black Keys—steadily in that they’ve been producing their bluesy...
Live Review: KT Tunstall at Union Chapel
KT Tunstall at the Union Chapel, Tuesday 8th November 2011 as watched by Helen Thomson You might think you know who KT Tunstall...
Album Review: Snow Patrol - Fallen...
Snow Patrol have come a long way since their early years of sleeping on fans floors and pretending to be members of...
Single Review: Death Cab For Cutie, Red...
Death Cabs third single from the album Codes and Keys is a sweet acoustic number called Stay Young, Go Dancing. The song opens...
Album Review: Florence and the Machine -...
To describe Florence’s rise to ubiquitous stardom as ‘meteoric’ does it a disservice. Whilst it’s not...
Single Review: L-Vis 1990 - Feel the Void
L-Vis 1990 grows in profile year by year. A leading force in the taste making Night Slugs crew, the DJ and producer has been an...
Single Review: The Vaccines - Tiger Blood
Another thumping exercise in brevity from The Vaccines, Tiger Blood clocks in at a hectic 2 minutes long, and has just what...
Single Review: Doctor P - Neon
Doctor P has chosen to follow a depressingly well established dubstep path- Make your name on the underground with a stomach...
Single Review: Little Dragon - Little Man
Swedish hipster favourites Little Dragon return with another slice of under stated skippy electro magic. ‘Little...
Single Review: The Drums - How It Ended
With ‘How It Ended’ The Drums continue to chart their bitter sweet course through danceable indie pop melancholy....
Album Review: Buraka Som Sistema
Portugese futurists Buraka Som Sistema came to prominence with their MIA collaboration- 2008’s ‘Sound of...
Album Review: Veronica Falls - Veronica...
From the first strums of opener and blog favourite, ‘Found Love in A Graveyard’, Veronica Falls wear their...
Single Review: Woman's Hour - Jenni Human
The debut single from Woman’s Hour gathers together a clutch of hipster signposts and tries to fashion them into...
Single Review: Wolf Gang - Back to Back
There’s loads to recommend about the new Wolf Gang single—the menacing dubbed out bassline, the swooning disco...
Single Review: Rizzle Kicks - When I Was...
Rizzle Kicks’ rise to the top UK stardom is starting to look inevitable. This new track taps into a grand British...
Album Review: Noel Gallagher's High...
Oasis were undoubtedly one of the biggest British rock bands of the last 30 years and the Gallagher brothers are now two of the...
Single Review: New releases
Lights Out Words Gone- Bombay Bicycle Club. When you mention the words English Indie rock, you automatically imagine something...
Album Review: The Doups: Small Town Gossip
This week will see the release of ‘Small Town Gossip’ the debut album by the Portuguese blues indie rock four piece...
Single Review: New releases review
Murray James - Protect Me Before we can consider the merits of Murray James’ song ‘Protect Me’, there is one...
Album Review: Zola Jesus’ Conatus
There are two things here we need to get out of the way first. Number one: every artist should have the work ethic and release...
Single Review: Latest Singles Review
Canterbury- ‘More Than Know’ Indie snobs won’t be happy that some of the vocals have been tweaked to sound...
Single Review: Weekly Singles Review
Feist - How come you never go there? Feist is both Canadian indie royalty and set to release her 4th studio album,...
Album Review: Ryan Adams 'Ashes and Fire'
Ryan Adams is set to release his thirteenth studio album on the 10th of October, which officially makes him an elder statesman....
Album Review: Kasabian Velocirapter
When Kasabian first stepped onto the scene, they were branded as ‘Lad-Rock’ and followed in the footsteps of Oasis;...
Single Review: September 19th
Dappy has released his first solo single 'No Regrets' today. He recently announced that N-Dubz could be coming to an...
Album Review: The Drums Portamento
Brooklyn based indie pop band The Drums achieved great success last year with their debut self-titled album ‘The...
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