Foxes – Glorious Rating: 6/10 Buy: Glorious Louisa Rose Allen arrives with her debut album and, though calling it a glorious piece of music might be an overstatement, it’s a fun, perky pop package, masking some quite downbeat themes and lyrics, supported by a handful of radio friendly songs that showcase her ear for a…
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg {rating} Buy: Jake Bugg As soon as the first electrifying chorus of album opener ’Lightning Bolt’ hits you, it’s clear that 18 year old Nottingham scamp Jake Bugg is more than your average acoustic guitar-toting snooze-merchant. Jake Bugg is in fact the real deal – energetic, charismatic, soulful and poetic,…
Blondie – Ghosts Of Download Rating: 6/10 Buy: Blondie 4(0)-Ever: Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux / Ghosts Of Download Blondie are back with their tenth album, ‘Ghosts of Download’, named after the spirits that allegedly live in the electronics, on the fortieth anniversary of the band’s formation. The new release coming in at just over fifty…
Friendly Fires – Pala You can’t imagine the money men at Friendly Fires’ label having too many sleepless nights over when to release Pala. With summer almost within touching distance, the boys from St. Albans have produced possibly the most unashamedly sunny and joyful album of glossy pop since crimped hair and shoulder pads went…
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories {rating} Buy: Random Access Memories Eight years in the making and the subject of the biggest hype campaign of the century, French electro pioneers Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories has a lot of expectations to live up to. The prospect of Daft Punk abandoning the ‘EDM’ scene…
Chromeo – White Women Rating: 7/10 Buy: White Women Before coming across the two singles of Chromeo, an electro-funk duo from Canada, I had never heard of them, especially weird being that it’s their fourth album that has just come out. Picking up White Women on the back of two very strong singles, this album…
Primal Scream – More Light {rating} Buy: More Light Even though they’ve loomed large over British guitar music ever since I can remember being aware of ‘British guitar music’, I’ve never really ‘got’ Primal Scream. I never understood the big fuss about Screamadelica, and the rest of their 90’s output all felt a bit too…
Tribes’ second album Wish To Scream is out on 20 May, but you don’t have to wait that long to get your ears round it as they’ve released a full stream of it. Listen to Wish To Scream here: Wish To Scream is Tribes’ follow-up to last year’s well-received debut Baby, and signals a move…
Thanks to some other album streaming on iTunes yesterday, it was easy to miss that The National are also streaming their new album Trouble Will Find Me. To listen to the album click this link. Trouble Will Find Me is The National’s follow-up to 2010’s breakthrough album High Violet, and is out next week. Here’s…
Tame Impala – Lonerism {rating} Buy: Lonerism The slow-burning success of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker’s first album under his Tame Impala guise, 2010’s Innerspeaker, has helped to thrust this follow-up well into the ‘highly anticipated’ category. If this added pressure has had any detrimental effect on Parker, you wouldn’t know it from listening to Lonerism –…
