Review: Pet Shop Boys – Electric
July 17th, 2013
PSB take their signature synth-pop and mess it up in some thrillingly disorienting ways - ill-advised Example guest rap aside, it's a bold return to form.
July 17th, 2013
PSB take their signature synth-pop and mess it up in some thrillingly disorienting ways - ill-advised Example guest rap aside, it's a bold return to form.
July 17th, 2013
At a time when exciting things are happening in hip-hop, Jay-Z's tried-and-tested formula feels sadly like a stick with which to beat it back down.
July 5th, 2013
Gold Panda continues to reclaim the word 'crystalline' as a positive description of a piece of music on his second album.
July 5th, 2013
A tedium of identikit riffery, affected 'attitude' and production so very 'now' you could wear it as a wristwatch - we smell the bully stuff.
July 5th, 2013
The third full album in under a year from Chris Wade's psych-folk project, and his finest work yet.
July 3rd, 2013
Run out of ideas, or never even had any to start with? Rope in the bloke who turned Kings of Leon into a stadium rock act and sound limp in widescreen.
July 2nd, 2013
A second album's worth of golden, ELO-worshipping 'cricket pop' from two of the best songwriters going, namely Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh.
July 2nd, 2013
Bell X1’s eighth album Chop Chop is one of those ‘stately yet fragile beauty interspersed with clattering broodiness’ affairs: think .
July 1st, 2013
Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham has put together an extraordinary new band that sounds like nowt else you'll hear in a hurry.
June 27th, 2013
Without wanting to appear cold, Ice on the Dune gets a frosty reception from us - snow point rehashing the '80s when we've already got so much of it.