Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding After spending the best part of 20 years in the formidable creative shadow of his older brother, Beady Eye‘s debut album gives Liam Gallagher the chance to show us all exactly what the best front-man of his generation thinks a rock band should sound like. Unsurprisingly for Liam,…
Radiohead album review – The King Of Limbs Amid the excitement and controversy stirred up by its innovative ‘pay-what-you-like’ release, 2007’s In Rainbows didn’t get the recognition it deserved as perhaps Radiohead’s best album since OK Computer. By abandoning the record label model and distributing their music on their own terms, they caused such a…
To be perfectly honest from the off, the three words that are almost guaranteed to send a shiver down our spine are ‘anti’ ‘war’ ‘album’. Thoughts immediately turn to rock stars trying too hard to convey their liberal, empathetic tendencies by making heavy-handed, ego-centric music that, more often than not, patronises its subject matter and…
The Streets – ‘Computers And Blues’ The world is a very different place now than the one Mike Skinner eloquently depicted in his wildly inventive and distinctive 2002 debut, Original Pirate Material. Since then we’ve had recession, terrorist attacks, wars, a new Tory government and the inexorable rise of the internet and social networking. …
