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Album Review – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Kanye West couldn’t have come up with a more apt description of his latest record than the very title he gave it; My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is just that. Anyone familiar with Kanye’s Twitter feed will know just how erratic he can be. Tweets about his new diamond teeth run close to hour long [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Progress by Take That

With the fastest selling tour in British history tucked firmly under the belts of the recently reformed five piece, you’d be forgiven for expecting an album harking back to their 90′s heyday. However with Progress, the band have released one of the most striking albums of the year. Lead single ‘The Flood’ is the closest [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Loud by Rihanna

“Hey Mr DJ won’t you turn the music up?” When Rihanna released her debut album Music Of The Sun in 2005 she was 17 years old, and the album’s opening track ‘Pon De Replay’ was about a DJ not playing music loud enough. Now in 2010, the Barbadian has released Loud, whose opening track ‘S&M’ [ READ MORE ]

Track Review – Bodies by Catfish & The Bottlemen

Indie rock isn’t in the position it was five years ago, it’s not even in the position it was in two years ago; Kings Of Leon have just released their worst album so far, Oasis have split up, and no one’s pretending to enjoy The Enemy anymore either. So what to do with a band [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Insatiable by Nadine Coyle

Apparently Nadine Coyle’s debut solo album isn’t doing too well, which is a shame because it contains some pretty good pop songs. Actually, it contains about three or four good pop songs and several other tracks that aren’t quite as good but are still better than most songs on Cheryl Cole’s Messy Little Raindrops. This [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Nothing by N*E*R*D

After being supremely underwhelmed by N*E*R*D’s performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2009 and appalled at the band’s behaviour following the plug being pulled on them for running over their time slot, I approached their new album with trepidation. However that trepidation was unnecessary, as Nothing is N*E*R*D’s strongest album since In Search Of… . Lead [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Messy Little Raindrops by Cheryl Cole

With her divorce from a cheating husband and battle with malaria taking up many a headline over the last 12 months, Cheryl Cole (the only woman on earth who actually cry’s angel’s tears) has had plenty to be upset about. However with none of the lyrics having been written by Cole herself, we were unlikely [ READ MORE ]

Track Review – Heart Vacancy by The Wanted

For those unaware, The Wanted are a five piece boy band signed to the Geffen record label. Between the ages of 17 and 22, the boys fit the boy band mold perfectly, ie. they’re young, attractive, and can look into the distance with a serious face. Their new single, ‘Heart Vacancy’, released a week before [ READ MORE ]

Track Review – Healing Hands by Crispian Mills

Following phenomenal success in the late 90′s with Kula Shaker, lead singer Crispian Mills set out to record a solo album. Unfortunately the album was never finished and no tracks were released, until now. Ho Hum Records have managed to get their hands on two of the tracks Mills recorded with Mark Pritchard and are [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Come Around Sundown by Kings Of Leon

The first three tracks on Youth & Young Manhood included ‘Wasted Time’ and ‘Happy Alone’, Aha Shake Heartbreak included ‘King Of The Radio’ and ‘Taper Jean Girl’, Because Of The Times had both ‘Charmer’ and ‘On Call’ while the mighty Only By The Night opened with ‘Closer’, ‘Crawl’, and ‘Sex On Fire’. All are fan [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Red Brick Heart by Performance

A quick look through Performance’s history suggests that this is a band that shouldn’t even exist. School friends Joe Stretch, Laura Marsden and Joe Cross formed the band in 2003 and quickly became well known on Manchester’s live scene. A deal with Polydor records followed in 2005 but was scuppered by various bouts of romance [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Record Collection by Mark Ronson & The Business International

Record Collection is an apt description of the new Mark Ronson album, with appearances coming thick and fast from hip-hop luminaries Ghostface Killah and Q-Tip, to 80′s pop masters Simon Le Bon and Boy George. Having done away with the horns, this is supposedly a representation of Ronson’s own record collection. Opening track and lead [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – A Complete Introduction To Sugar Hill Records

The opening track to A Complete Introduction To Sugar Hill Records is the record that pushed hip-hop into the mainstream. ‘Rappers Delight’ by The Sugarhill Gang is an undeniable classic. The 15 minute track was selling thousands of copies a day and getting radio airplay that hip-hop had never before received. Some radio stations even [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – The Ordeal by Stuart Warwick

The official website for Stuart Warwick says that “In his spare time he writes music” which is quite an odd description of a musician considering that it is meant to be their profession. Not so for Stuart Warwick, who’s day job is actually as Professor of Applied Anthropology at the London School of Economics. The [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Barking by Underworld

After recording and mixing the nine tracks that would eventually make up Barking, Underworld began correspondence with various producers to help them create the album released today. Speaking to the Guardian, Underworld said that hearing their own music remixed for over twenty years of had inspired them to no longer work alone but to collaborate [ READ MORE ]

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