It’s June! Time for sun, festivals, BBQs, beer gardens and the World Cup! It’s also time for some very exciting-looking new albums. Last month saw the release of big albums from the likes of The Horrors, Gruff Rhys, The Black Keys, Chromeo, Coldplay and Echo and The Bunneymen – so June has got its work […]
Category: Album Reviews
Arctic Monkeys album review – Suck It And See
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See After riding the massive hype wave of their first two albums all the way to the arenas, the Arctic Monkeys took a bit of a detour with third album Humbug – swapping the sing-along choruses and crowd pleasing riffs for an altogether denser and less accessible affair. Typically […]
Disclosure’s debut album ‘Settle’ is streaming online – listen here
The Lawrence brothers’ debut album Settle has become one of the most eagerly awaited debut albums of the summer – and is now available to stream online ahead of it’s release next week. Stream Settle below, via The Guardian: Disclosure – Settle tracklist: 01. Intro 02. When A Fire Starts To Burn 03. Latch (Feat. […]
Album review: Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘…Like Clockwork’
Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork {rating} Buy: Like Clockwork Along with maybe Arcade Fire and Josh Homme’s proteges Arctic Monkeys, Queens Of The Stone Age have been one of the defining rock bands of the 21st Century. Their heavy, layered stoner-rock and Homme’s poetic lyrical approach helped them transcend current trends and […]
Album Review: Funeral Suits – ‘Lily Of The Valley’
Funeral Suits – Lily Of The Valley [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Lily of the Valley Irish four-piece Funeral Suits have been on my radar since I heard their dreamy and confident debut single ‘Colour Fade’ last year. But a good, exciting single is one thing, the real test of a new band is how well they can […]
Scissor Sisters – ‘Magic Hour’ album review
Album review submitted by Philip Lickley. If you would like to contribute to All-Noise, send your reviews to submissions@all-noise.co.uk Scissor Sisters – Magic Hour [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Magic Hour Scissor Sisters are a band that have certainly entered the public consciousness with their, mostly, uptempo singles with songs such as ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancing’ and […]
Miles Kane – ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’ album stream
Miles Kane is back with his second solo album Don’t Forget Who You Are next week, and ahead of it’s release the mod-rock revivalist is streaming the whole thing online. Listen to it below (via NME): Don’t Forget Who You Are is the follow-up to Kane’s debut solo album Colour Of The Trap and is out […]
Queens Of The Stone Age Album ‘…Like Clockwork’ – listen here
Ahead of its release next week, Queens Of The Stone Age’s new album …Like Clockwork is now available to stream in full on iTunes. Click this link to stream it. …Like Clockwork is the first QOTSA album since 2007’s Era Vulgaris, and is described by band leader Josh Homme as ‘an audio documentary of a […]
Album review: Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
Arcade Fire – Reflektor {rating} Download: Reflektor Alarm bells began to ring as soon as it was revealed that Arcade Fire’s fourth album, their follow-up to 2010’s massively successful The Suburbs, was to be that most pretentious of all rock band pretentions: a double album. As more details began to emerge – namely that the […]
The Darlingtons – ‘Decades Dance’ album review
The Darlingtons – Decades Dance [rating:4/5] You may remember a few months ago I named Taunton band The Darlingtons as my favourite new band – and just to prove what a good judge of music I am here’s their debut album Decades Dance, which is amazing: Decades Dance, out now on indie label Ordered Records, […]