Adapt or die, was Darwin’s theory and Pittsburgh trio Modey Lemon seem to have taken that to heart. To date, they’ve been variously pegged as garage-rock recidivists, analog-synth...
The second LP from Liverpool’s artful proponents of off-kilter alt.pop boasts 14 new tunes, produced by Brian Deck (of Modest Mouse fame) – around four too many, as it turns out....
Formed in ’89 as a heavy metal band, in the mid ’90s this Bavarian quartet took to flirting with electronics and sounding not unlike a tougher, less folky and, well, more German Tuung....
The Fania label – founded in New York in 1964 – is to the music of the Latino diaspora what Stax is to soul or Chess to the blues. This two-CD compilation gathers together on one disc...
At the risk of asking a Big Question in the middle pages of a magazine, what is the point of making pop music? It’s worth raising in relation to Coldplay’s fourth album, because the...
As has been threatened by EMI’s head honcho, Guy Hands, we’re looking at a future of market-tested albums made by bands who’ve been handpicked by people better suited to spotting...
We have no wish to trivialise the latest album by these peerless alt.country rockers from Kentucky, but it could easily be used in a parlour game. Play the track ‘Highly Suspicious’ to...
Despite being one of the toasts of SXSW, Fleet Foxes are rank outsiders in their home town. Why Seattle’s ‘scene’ has failed to embrace this quintet is baffling; their sweet,...
David Berman’s Silver Jews were best back in the bleak old days, when the line-up featured Steve Malkmus and Berman was a gammy mess of accidental drug injuries. But, like it or not,...
The nephew of Alice Coltrane (wowza!), this former cinema student offers a riposte to our excitable witterings about dubstep and brings both his past and his present to bear on this shadowy outing....
