Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon [rating:4.5/5] Buy: Beacon Two Door Cinema became everyone’s favourite festival band on the back of their debut album Tourist History, thanks to its winning combination of easy charm, infectious riffs and blistering choruses. Follow up album Beacon, therefore, has a lot to live up to – and as you…
The Cast Of Cheers – Family [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Family If you like your hooks infectious, your melodies punchy and your guitar lines sharp, then you’ll like Dublin quartet The Cast Of Cheers’ debut album Family. Probably a lot. Previous singles ‘Family’ and ‘Animals’ showcased their talent for propulsive, attention-grabbing indie-pop songs, and the album wastes…
Passion Pit – ’Gossamer’ [rating:3/5] Buy: Gossamer If you enjoyed the wildly infectious melodies and modern pop sensibilities of Passion Pit’s 2009 debut Manners, then there’s plenty in second album Gossamer to keep you interested. ‘Take A Walk’ and ‘I’ll Be Alright’, the first two tracks to emerge from Gossamer, are everything that’s great about…
Beyonce has gifted her fans with “The Lion King: The Gift.” The album came out on 19th along with the music video for “Spirit” and a couple of days later, Beyonce expanded on the music video, making it even better and fancier by adding “Bigger” to it. It’s a true gift from the iconic singer…
Simply streaming a new album online ahead of its official release date is so 2012 – and super-cool trailblazers AlunaGeorge are anything but 2012, so they’ve come up with a new way to stream their debut album Body Music. Starting at 12pm (BST) this Thursday (25 July), the duo will be streaming one song from…
With The Verve’s reunion a thing of the past and his appeal as a solo artist steadily decreasing, front-man Richard Ashcroft is back with a new band and what looks to be a new approach… Back in those heady Britpop days of the 90’s, Richard Ashcroft was hailed by many as the greatest front-man of…
Ahead of his debut album proper Doris, OFWGKTA prodigy Earl Sweatshirt has made a new mixtape available to stream/download. Titled ‘The Road To Doris’, it features previously released tracks like ‘Hive’ and ‘Whoa’ as well as a lot of previously unheard material. It serves as the ideal introduction to Earl ahead of the release of…
La Roux’s highly anticipated second album Trouble In Paradise finally gets its release next week (preorder it below). Ahead of that, and to try and counter those pesky online album leaks, the synth-pop star has put generous snippets of the album up for streaming on her website. Looking at the snippet lengths I would guess…
The Horrors – Skying After their first album failed to live up to all that ‘most exciting new band’ hype, The Horrors kind of dropped off the radar as everyone looked elsewhere for trendy, big-haired, skinny jeaned rockers to provide the next new exciting sound. The ironic thing is, if everyone had stuck around…
Nas – Life Is Good [rating:4/5] Buy: Life Is Good Now hip-hop is not exactly my specialist subject, but I am quite a big fan of Mr Nasir Jones so I felt I had to give his new album the once over. I’m not a total hip-hop noob though, I know enough to get by…
