Author: jerobear
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Purple: [409]
Purple are a band we can imagine going to see at the Sugarmill, getting there to find the venue packed with young people who know every word to every song and mosh madly down at the front while the band goes bonkers on stage. It would be a short gig, as this is their only…
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Spectrum Orchestrum: Suburbs
There is nothing more likely to warm the hearts of the Review Corner than a polite email from a Frenchman asking if we would review his band, especially when the forthcoming EP (though it’s long) subsequently turns out to be lovingly packaged with an imaginatively designed sleeve. Prelude opens the EP gently and is slightly…
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Nadine Shah: Fast Food & Denai Moore: Elsewhere
Female singers with exotic names are like buses: you wait ages for one and then, well you know the rest. We’ll start off with Shah, as she’s the one about whom there’s a bus, sorry buzz. We’ve seen her compared to PJ Harvey but she’s more reminiscent of Siouxsie and the Banshees, at least the…
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Odinn Baldvinsson, Patricia Romero: Cantilena II
Odinn Baldvinsson, Patricia Romero Cantilena II The main appeal of this charming album is how the flute and piano meld — the two musicians work really well together. We’re struggling to say much about the music itself (and curse the fact that no-one seems to review other than the big-name classical CDs): these are delicate…
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The Last Vinci: The Last Vinci
This radio-friendly rock album from Turin/Cork based The Last da Vinci came out on 2nd March according to the Press release but we’ve had it before — it came out sometime last year, we think. It’s a hard album to review: they’ve put a lot of love and effort into making this record and in…
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Flowers: Do What You Want, It’s What You Should Do
We think Flowers are one of those trendy bands that everyone is going to rave about; big spreads in the NME after a handful of gigs, that sort of thing. This album is produced by Bernard Butler and the Press release talks about their genius. Sadly we are unconvinced. The opening song from the trio…
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Champs: Vamala
This isn’t The Champs who had that hit with the famous Tequila, but just Champs — it’s brother Michael and David Champion. The music is mournful folk/pop, as if Simon and Garfunkel were very sad about something like getting old or having silly hair. Or about being remembered for writing a song about rabbits. There’s…
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