Icelandic post-rock trio Sigur Ros are gearing up for the release of their seventh studio album Kveikur next week (on XL Recordings). In preparation of its release, they’ve already revealed three tracks from it – ‘Brennisteinn‘, ‘Isjaki‘ and most recently the title track. Today we get to hear the whole thing, as it’s available to…
Hot Chip – In Our Heads [rating:2.5/5] Buy: In Our Heads They’re now onto their fifth studio album – eight years on from their debut Coming On Strong – and the world at large is still pretty much ambivalent towards Hot Chip. ‘Aint they the ones who did that funny dance song about the monkey…
Aussie synth-pop duo Empire Of The Sun are back after a five year absence with their second album Ice On The Dune next week. Before it’s out though, Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore have made the album available to stream via Rolling Stone. Ice on the Dune Tracklist: 01. Lux 02. DNA 03. Alive 04….
Clean Bandit – New Eyes Atlantic Out now 3.5/5 Way back in April 2013 I reviewed a song by an unknown band called ‘Clean Bandit’, giving the experimental ‘Mozart’s House’ 7 out of 10 and enjoying the fresh sound and something different offered by the mixing of electronic, rap and classical. Over twelve months on…
Beadye Eye – BE {rating} Buy: BE All the talk about Beady Eye’s follow-up to the mildly disappointing Different Gear, Still Speeding has been about them recruiting lauded producer Dave Sitek. But instead of being the album that marks a welcome and interesting change of direction, BE is the album in which Liam Gallagher gets…
Nu-rave survivors Klaxons are gearing up for the release of their third album Love Frequency next week (out on 16 June via Akashic Rekords / Sony Red), and have just made the whole thing available to stream in full. Stream Love Frequency below via The Guardian: If you like what you hear, you can preorder Love…
Ahead of its release next week, Beady Eye have made their second album BE available to stream online. Head over to iTunes to stream BE via this link: www.itunes.com/beadyeye BE is the follow-up to the former Oasis members’ first album Different Gear, Still Speeding – and promises a slightly new sound thanks to the involvement…
Kasabian – 48:13 Columbia Release date: 9 June 4/5 In a recent feature on Kasabian by The Guardian’s Caspar Llewellyn Smith, the writer explains how in a recent meeting he told Serge how terrible his band is, and that they are “solely responsible for every failure of contemporary rock’n’roll.” (link) Later on Caspar dials…
Next week sees the release of 13, the first Black Sabbath album featuring the original line-up of Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler for 35 years (RATM’s Brad Wilk completes the line-up on drums). Ahead of the release of the highly-anticipated Rick Rubin-produced album, the band have made it avaialble to stream online at iTunes…
Jagwar Ma, the latest Aussie psych-rock band to get everyone into a bit of a lather, are releasing their highly-anticipated debut album Howlin next week, and have made it available to stream in full online. To listen to Howlin, head over to NPR.org. As well as streaming Howlin, the duo have also announced three live…
