Tag: album review

There was something a little bit off about Hot Chip when they first arrived: how to take a band who went on about monkeys with miniature cymbals and whose quirky gap year house was ready for the floor, providing, the cynics said, it was one with a chemistry department on…

It really is hard to believe that Irish rock’n’roll bandits The Minutes have been making a racket for most of the past decade considering how their long overdue debut came to be. In the span of five hysteric days the three Dubliners fried twelve tracks barely caged by thirty five …

The ceaseless solar eclipse that has fuelled Placebo’s sixth album career has finally, as their latest offerings title would suggest, ended. Battle for the Sun sees the band deviate from their recent mournful meandering with synthesizers and instead expand upon their earlier sound, but with squeaky-clean production and stadium-sized ambitions.…