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Kings of Leon - review
Kings of Leon gigs tend to fall into one of two categories. There are the rock'n'roll shows, static affairs in which the Tennessee rock band stand around, proving their fitness for Big Arena Rock Club membership by means other than electrifying stagecraft
Holden: The Inheritors - review
Typical: you wait six years to put out an album, then Boards of Canada (to whom your debut, The Idiots Are Winning, was compared favourably ) overshadow it.
Black Sabbath: 13 - review
(Mercury) Conceived against a backdrop of conflicting personal projects, contractual disagreements and guitarist Tony Iommi's debilitating lymphoma, 13 could so easily have been an exercise in old metallers making do. But Black Sabbath's first album wi
Disclosure: Settle - review
(PMR) One should not get too hung up on youth, especially when club/pop crossovers are mooted. But upwardly mobile production duo Disclosure features two brothers, aged 21 and just 18, whose deft productions belie the fact that the younger Lawrence, Howa
Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle - review
(Virgin) Laura Marling, now on her fourth album, can deliver a haughty line with the assurance of a master. "Damn all those people who don't lose control/Who will never take a foot out of life/You might not think that I care/But you don't know what I kno
Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth - review
(Warp) Mount Kimbie's second album finds the south London post-dubstep duo signed to Warp, the ancestral home of digital beats that wrong-foot the dancer. Lead track Made to Stray sounds suitably on point, expertly marrying digital precision with wooze.
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories - review
Ballads. Jazzy interludes. Low BPMs. Live drums. An Andrew Lloyd Webber moment.
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs: Clarietta - review
First, there were the Horrors, disciples of vintage vinyl who came of age in 2011 with their third album.
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City - review
(XL) As the title and the aerial cover shot of a mysterious, clouded Gotham City suggest, Vampire Weekend's latest album concerns itself with New York, the city from which the former Columbia undergraduates have observed the manners of the east coast e