If we’re to believe the reviews written in the wake of The Kills’ recent gig at Soho Revue Bar then this third album should be self-regarding tosh on a par with The Fiery Furnaces whole...
This third album from Oakland’s outsider hip hop explorer Yoni Wolf is the spookiest exposition yet of an agile mind that links a rogue pebble in his sock to heartbreak and failing democracy....
Malcolm Middleton is almost cripplingly modest. He’s also one of the best songwriters we have, serving up sharp meditations on love and loneliness from an aching heart with nowhere to hide....
You can’t get much cooler than an apocalypse-obsessed electro-rock outfit from Brooklyn right now. You could, however, get a bit more interesting. BOE have got the right mix of basement dirt,...
In the first weeks of January, why did we have to choose between Duffy and Adele? There’s room enough for both of them, of course; we just wish they lived up to the hype. The lusty, Dusty...
Magpie psych-poppers The Ruby Suns might be eclectic like a PCP-addicted shoplifter, but there is a method to their glorious madness. Their proud array of Polynesian folk, highlife, Devendra-like...
Even by dubstep’s own youthful standards, Croydon’s Beni Adejumo – who builds beats as Benga – is precociously talented. He started hanging around the legendary Big Apple...
The second LP from London’s Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence ‘La’ Rudd reinforces their status as one of the most convincing writerly and band-aligned electro-pop acts. Their sound is...
It’s perhaps no great surprise that the thrillingly foul breath of Cave’s recent Grinderman project has pumped life into his Bad Seeds. The dazzling double opus that was 2004’s...
Strutting around a disco for five years would, we imagine, get a bit tiresome. Especially if you’re wearing the kind of improbable, glitzy heels that Alison Goldfrapp probably wears to do the...
