Panic At The Disco – ’Pretty. Odd.’ (album review)
Listening to Pretty. Odd. is like falling down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world where the sun falls in love with the moon, there are “waves of wooden legs”, “a dog called bambi” and daydreams merge seamlesssly with reality. As Pretty. Odd. is the second album from Panic At The Disco, we should expect [...]
-->The Electric City – ‘Dark Skies’ (single review)
Now, I don’t expect the poetic brilliance of a Shakespearian sonnet or the raw passion of Hunter S. Thompson, but lyrics should mean something and these ones, well, they don’t. Vacuous the sentiments may be but all is not lost for ‘Dark Skies’ in that it is just SO BLOODY CATCHY. I listened to it [...]
-->The Raconteurs – ‘Consolers Of The Lonely’ (album review)
With so many precedents being set in the way music is recorded, released and consumed in the last 12 months, it should come as no real surprise that Messers White and Benson are getting in on the act by releasing this record a mere week after its existence was first reported. This is not to [...]
-->The Long Blondes @ Exeter Cavern 25/3/08 (live review)
In the dark grotto that is Exeter’s most renowned music venue, the Cavern, Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson looked surprisingly at home on a stage which, on most nights, accommodates sweaty men fiercely bearing guitars. Sweeping into ethereal album opener “Century”, it becomes clear how legendry producer Erol Alkan has helped shape a new sound for [...]
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