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Andrew Bird, Dirty Three, The: Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself/The Dirty Three: Toward the Low Sun (both Bella Union)

Review by James Medd, The Word, April 2012

AS A RULE, violins have no place in rock. Fairport Convention went wrong at Liege & Lief, ELO were all about the synths and 'Geno' ...

Paul Weller: Sonik Kicks

Review by Laura Barton, The Word, April 2012

Paul Weller's unchanging image limits our view of him. His third "experimental" record fizzes with aural innovation. ...

Alejandro Escovedo: Big Station

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 June 2012

WITH A BRAZEN SWAGGER drawn from Alejandro Escovedo's punk roots, the 61-year-old songwriter/yowler declares, "I can take a punch, I can take a swing…" on ...

Go Kart Mozart: Go-Kart Mozart: On the Hot Dog Streets

Review by Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, 25 June 2012

There is only one Lawrence, this is his gospel, and roll on the next chapter. ...

Go-Kart Mozart: On the Hot Dog Streets

Review by Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, 25 June 2012

There is only one Lawrence, this is his gospel, and roll on the next chapter. ...

Blur: Blur 21 – The Box

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 28 July 2012

Blur are marking 21 years, and possibly their final days, by re-releasing almost everything they have ever recorded. Andy Gill discovers a host of unheard ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 26 February 2013

Chris Roberts is inspired out of his clothes and on to the dancefloor by David Bowie's glorious return. ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 27 February 2013

The return of the Thin White Duke after a ten year silence does not disappoint ...

David Bowie: Highlights of David Bowie Is: V&A, London

Review by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, 25 March 2013

I'VE NEVER been a Bowie-phile, but after visiting the David Bowie is exhibition at the V&A last week, it's difficult not to feel as though such ...

David Bowie: The Next Day

Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, April 2013

Here he is, not quite dying. The new Bowie is alive and well and mildly exasperated, says Mark Paytress. ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy and the Stooges: Ready To Die

Review by John Lewis, Metro, 26 April 2013

ONE MIGHT mock Iggy Pop for advertising car insurance, but the truth is that being a rock legend doesn't come with a guaranteed stipend: his ...

Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 24 May 2013

EVEN IN A CAREER already marked by unusual precocity, Once I Was an Eagle is an extraordinary achievement, the kind of album that both summarises ...

Queens Of The Stone Age: …Like Clockwork

Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 3 June 2013

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE occasionally get called a metal band. This is rather like calling Picasso a house painter. The veteran Californian band may ...

Sting: The Last Ship

Review by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 28 September 2013

THE ARTIST Originally Known As Gordon Sumner is just about the only musician bar Justin Bieber who can be guaranteed bad notices for breathing. This, ...

Arcade Fire: Reflektor

Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 30 September 2013

ARCADE FIRE's penchant for an album-uniting concept is nothing new. 2010's multi-award-winning The Suburbs arrived informed by its makers' upbringing, at the fringes of bigger-city ...

Chrome: Half Machine From The Sun (King of Spades)

Review by Frances Morgan, The Wire, January 2014

CHROME's Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves were released in 1978 and 1979, which makes them contemporaries of Mad Max, Philip K Dick's VALIS, ...

Bill Nelson, Reeves Gabrels: Reeves Gabrels and Bill Nelson: Fantastic Guitars

Review by David Quantick, loudersound.com, 22 July 2014

Cult axemen combine to explosive effect ...

Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back/Fear Of A Black Planet (Deluxe Editions)

Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, February 2015

BOTH THE music industry and the media have a way of attaching such an air of historical significance to certain records that it's easy to ...

Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color

Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 21 April 2015

Soul rockers free their minds to explore new psychedelic worlds on their second album ...

Wilco: Star Wars ****

Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 July 2015

The Chicago band's ninth album successfully blends Bowie space-glam, Beatles psychedelic singsong and Captain Beefheart weirdness ...


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