Review archive
Our review archive contains almost 5,000 album, single, book and live reviews written from 2003 up to May 2012.
- The Durutti Column - Short Stories for Pauline Album Review
- A brand new album from Manchester’s thin white guitar duke has been in the pipeline for some time now, but personal break-ups, a stroke and subsequent recovery have meant that the planned “Chronicles” project is on hold until later this year. The bane of Durutti Column ...
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The Wake - A Light Far Out Album Review- Formed in 1981 by former Altered Images guitarist Gerard (aka Caesar), Steven Allen and future Primal Scream icon Bobby Gillespie, there’s enough pedigree here to earn The Wake some kudos and plenty of hits on Wikipedia, if not on Amazon, Cerysmatic and their current la...
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Bastions - Hospital Corners Album Review- Following in the style of seminal Punk Rock band Gallows, North Wales very own Punk rockers Bastions released their debut album ‘Hospital Corners’ through In At The Deep End records not only on CD and MP3 but also on a very impressive looking clear splatter vinyl. Havin...
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Gabby Young & Other Animals - The Band Called Out For More Album Review- From the opening rousing moments of new single and lead-track “In Your Head”, you get the feeling that you’re in for a special forty minutes by sprightly self-proclaimed ‘circus-swinger’ Gabby Young – and you are. Shuffled from a pack that contains Florence, Paloma, New...
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Otis Gibbs - Hard As Hammered Hell Album Review- There’s a song on Gibbs’ 6th album entitled “Big Whiskers” which, after glancing at PR pictures of the gravel-voiced blues-peddlin’ bushwhackin’ ‘fifth-grade’ yo-yo champion (it says here), I feel inclined to pay respect to – hey, we chin-shrub horticulturalists need to...
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We Are Augustines - Juarez Single Review- Ryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen flavoured blues rock tainted vocals revolve around a fuzzed up electric guitar grind, ‘Juarez’. This dusky, homage paying to a Mexican town resting on the South Border of the USA, represents Brooklyn trio, We Are Augustine’s continuing c...
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Kevin Hewick - All Was Numbered Album Review- This year marks the 30th anniversary of the well-documented opening of Manchester’s world-renowned nightclub (and financial albatross) The Hacienda. As you might have expected, there have been films, books, parties, more films, more books and many more parties celebrati...
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Project Trio - Random Roads Collection Album Review- For those unfamiliar with this Cleveland-born jazz-funk-beatboxing trio, where have you been since 2005? Probably the same place that I have, seeing as The Project Trio are a relatively new name in my usually broad circle as well. Thankfully, Tummy Touch have just signe...
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The Hut People - Picnic Album Review- They say you should never judge a CD by its sleeve, but taking one look at the humorous pair of chaps on the front of “Picnic”, armed with jolly grins and a picnic basket, provided me with a much-needed chuckle and a scratch of the head. And that wasn’t the only merrime...
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Tom Williams and the Boat - Teenage Blood Album Review- Within sixty seconds of the opening title-track, I’m reminded of Broken Records, The Waterboys and Shearwater, three exponents of folk-rock who seem set to be joined by Kent-based Williams and his charges. “Teenage Blood” is the band’s second full-length set and marks a...
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