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ALBUM REVIEWS

Charli XCX’s BRAT Turns Party Pop Into a Study in Performed Excess

A review of BRAT as more than a hedonist-pop event: an album that treats glamour, mess, and bravado as forms of labor, and reveals how exhausting it is to make recklessness look effortless.

Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest – from Dread to Atmosphere

A review focused on how Boards of Canada use texture, pacing, and emotional ambiguity to make Tomorrow’s Harvest feel less like a collection of songs than a sustained environmental warning.

White Blood Cells
White Blood Still Cells

White Blood Cells appeared in 2001, at the moment when rock music had begun to…

Stay Positive

Either you get them or you don’t. There’s no in-between.  Like many a cult-band, they…

You Cross my Path

Radiohead have really turned the world on its head with their pay-as-you-like concept for their…

Dig Lazarus Dig!!!

It’s telling that my biggest gripe with Nick Cave is that he makes CDs that…

The Odd Couple

Those caught in the precarious position of providing critical analysis of Gnarls Barkley’s sophomore album, The…

Making All Things New

Darryl Blood’s sweet and distinctive voice comes across like a bed-time conversation complete with a…

INTERVIEWS

The Caesars

How are you? I am good. I’ve been walking around Berlin stopping for a little…

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Crack Village

Whilst on my travels around London’s music scene I took the opportunity of catching up…

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The Blow

How is the tour going? It’s going really well. I’m having a nice time. We…

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The Decemberists

The Portland-based book-worms calling themselves The Decemberists have been the darlings of the (admitedly small)…

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Dresden Dolls

Don’t be fooled, the burlesque exterior of the Boston-based Dresden Dolls is more than a…

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The Kills

In the early 1960s, Andy Worhol’s studio in New York was a community of artists,…

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