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    • Q-Tip - The Renaissance

    • Q-Tip - The Renaissance

      Common and Nas name-dropped him, Jay-Z held fundraisers for him and Big Boi released a video appearing to show himself beavering away on the campaign trail: hip hop has fallen head over heels for...

    • Tony Christie - Made In Sheffield

    • Tony Christie - Made In Sheffield

      The grisly spectre of ‘… Amarillo’ – in all its chart-conquering, conga line-friendly crassness – will surely haunt Mr Anthony Fitzgerald until his dying day. But...

    • Girls Aloud - Out of Control

    • Girls Aloud - Out of Control

      ‘X-Factor’-y girl pop spends so much time focusing on affairs of the heart that it’s in danger of becoming the aural form of ‘Dear Deirdre’. It’s not often,...

    • Grace Jones - Hurricane

    • Grace Jones - Hurricane

      There aren’t many 60-year-old women who could flash their bits at a festival crowd and stay the right side of the line separating supercharged Warholian dominatrix from deranged bag-lady. But...

    • Razorlight - Slipway Fires

    • Razorlight - Slipway Fires

      Johnny Borrell’s influences – America (the band, not his own song) to Arcade Fire, Simon and Garfunkel to Phil Collins – are all present on this third album. It’s Dylan,...

    • Grampall Jookabox - Ropechain

    • Grampall Jookabox - Ropechain

      Kicking off with what sounds like the beat-up spiritual of an angelic chain-gang, the second album from  Indianapolis native David ‘Moose’ Adamson, aka the sweetly named Grampall...

    • Parts And Labor - Receivers

    • Parts And Labor - Receivers

      The spiralling melodies and error code blips of album opener ‘Satellites’ set up the glitchy anxiety that fizzes and crackles throughout Dan Friel’s dystopian vision. Though it is...

    • Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema

    • Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema

      A gifted young pianist, this Brooklyn-based player extends the lineage of Brad Mehldau and EST’s beautiful melancholia on his solo debut. Parks effectively recasts the traditional piano-trio...

    • Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir

    • Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir

      Without the sight of Tom Jenkinson nimbly riffing on a six-string bass, a good deal of Squarepusher’s terrific albums will sound less like virtuosic works of art and more like chaotic...

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