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Allo Darlin’: We Come From The Same Place
We were most delighted to get this, as we thought Allo Darlin’ had split up. Their debut, 2010’s Allo Darlin’ is one of our favourite indie pop albums of recent years (and it’s proper indie pop, not manufactured guitar music). The follow up Europe was a bit slicker and not as immediately likeable; we play…
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The Pineapple Thief: Magnolia
You might not have heard of The Pineapple Thief but every time the Review Corner mentions their name someone will say “great band”. A bit like Biffy Clyro, they’re cult heroes who’ve spent their underground years honing their sound. We reckon this new, more commercial one will give them the mainstream success they deserve —…
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Inspiral Carpets: Inspiral Carpets
We reviewed this a few weeks ago but the release date got pushed back and it gave us time to play it a few more times. We can’t get past the fact that it’s no better than ok. The album starts off strongly with Monochrome, Spitfire, You’re so Good for Me and A to Z…
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Marmozets: The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets
Marmozets are two sets of siblings, who formed the band while at school. They still have an average age of 18. If you’re the same age and want a band that’s “yours”, these are going to press all the right buttons: loud and fast, full of spunk, and with the right mix of metal, shredding,…
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Maya Beiser: Uncovered
Beiser has been called a “cello goddess” “the queen of contemporary cello” (New Yorker and San Francisco Chronicle respectively) but she grew up on a kibbutz listening to rock. She says music is either good or bad and nothing more, so she’s taken her instrument of choice, the cello, to make an album of rock…
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Andy Burrows: Fall Together Again
Our main reaction to this was “Good on yer, son!” Burrows has been gaining in confidence since leaving Razorlight, first with tentative acoustic material then a decent-but-lacking-confidence full solo album. Now this, which is impressive. The lad’s fulfilling his potential at last. Fall Together Again is a sunny pop album. It would be stretching it…
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Goldstone and Clemmow: Rimsky-Korsakov for piano duet
This latest work from the husband and wife team of Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow lifts what could be pedestrian pieces of work to a higher level. We can imagine that the pieces on this CD —Scheherazade, Antar and Neopolitan Song — could be banged out by a hack player to make inoffensive background music,…
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Famy: We Fam Econo
This is the debut album from Famy, out on 8th September and it’s the sound of a band trying hard to elevate their average music to the heights of cultdom. In sound it’s somewhere between the tribal indie of Wu Lyf and the more cerebral indie pop of Cave Painting; the former released an excellent…
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