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Album Review – MuteMath
MuteMath – Armistice MuteMath albums sure don’t come easily. The release of their 2006 debut was masked by lengthy spells of litigation with their label, Warner Bros. In short, the band claimed that the music giants were not fulfilling what was promised in their contract, and therefore proceeded to press on and release the album [...]
Album Review – Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend – Contra On paper it just shouldn’t work. Four graduates from Columbia University record a lo-fi indie record that is heavily influenced by both the rhythms and sounds of African music and the fuzzy rawness of The Strokes. However, upon the release of 2008’s self-titled debut it quickly became apparent that it not [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.2
No.2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz If the years preceding 2009 saw guitars infiltrating the pop consciousness once again, then 2009 itself must surely be remembered as the year in which PVC-clad women armed with grubby synthesisers wrestled the power back (Litte Boots, La Roux, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lady Gaga,). However, as with every [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.4
No.4 Jamie T – Kings & Queens After his 2007 debut Panic Prevention, many were calling Wimbledon’s Jamie Treays the new Joe Strummer. The cascades of clever lyricisms pouring out in a familiar cockney drawl reminiscent of The Clash’s front man lead many to see the resemblance. Of course, as so often is with such [...]
Vampire Weekend – Cousins
It’s been doing the rounds for a few weeks now but incase you missed it, here is the new single from Ezra Koenig et al – Vampire Weekend. Entitled Cousins, it’s a short, sharp, panic attack of a song not too far removed from anything heard on thier eponymous ’08 debut. Compared to Horchata – [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.6
N0.6 Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix’s fifth album, the wonderfully titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, finally sees the French band realise the potential that has been seen in each one of their four preceding releases. Such a step forward for them was it that a Grammy nomination came their way for Best Alternative Album. That [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.8
No.8 Broken Records – Until The Earth Begins To Part If you could imagine for a second that Arcade Fire were fronted by Bruce Springsteen, you may get somewhere near the awe-inspiring racket that Broken Records make. For this comparison to truly work however, The Boss would had to have grown up under the grey [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.9
No.9 Passion Pit – Manners On first listen, Passion Pit may not make much sense. Their music sounds like the soundtrack to a lost SNES game, their singer Michael Angelakosa seemingly impersonating a falsetto obsessed man-child. However, over the course of their debut album Manners, it all becomes fantastically clear. Building from where their Chunk [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No. 10
No. 10 The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You When, in 2008, The Avett Brothers signed to Columbia’s American Recordings from their independent home of Ramseur, many fans feared that the brutal world of major labels would be too much for the South Carolina brothers Scott and Seth. After listening to their first [...]
