Album Review: Kiwi Jr. – Cooler Returns
7.5/10
Kiwi Jr.’s debut Football Money may have given the impression in places that it was a little fingers and thumbs, but it sounded no worse for it. Indebted to …
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Album Review: Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
8/10
By the time it’s over, there won’t be many people left unaffected by the events of the last twelve months in Britain. It took a pandemic to do it, …
Opening up to outsiders, opening up himself, and remaining one of the UK’s most misunderstood bands: Live4ever’s interview with Sleaford Mods
Irony isn’t so much your friend as a stranger who gleefully punches your lights out at the moment; for Jason Williamson, that Sleaford Mods’ excellent sixth album Spare Ribs …
Album Review: Shame – Drunk Tank Pink
7.5/10
More than half of the citizens of this planet have non-linear lives at the moment, so putting musicians on a pedestal would be the worst kind of exceptionalism. But …
Album Review: Shed Seven – Another Night, Another Town
7.5/10
Catchphrases from adverts are by definition meant to become part of language – that’s the point. In Britain, one that’s wedged itself into everyday conversation is for a wood …
Album Review: Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose, Live At Brixton
8/10
There’s a certain double edged resonance to Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman singing, ‘I want to go back to old times’, on The Hill, arguably the moment from their …
Live4ever’s Best Of 2020: In a year when we’ve lost live music, why The War On Drugs have our album of 2020
Click here for The War On Drugs and the full list of Live4ever’s 20 albums of the year. Valentine’s Eve 2020 at the Irish Centre in Leeds: incurable romantics …
Album Review: Belle And Sebastian – What To Look For In Summer
8/10
Whenever rival fans are looking up cliches to support the assertion that indie music is twee, Belle And Sebastian are usually one of the bands which they like to …
Album Review: The White Stripes – Greatest Hits
7.5/10
There was always a weird sort of make believe to The White Stripes, a job lot of superstitions it felt hard to not see as folklore. Jack White’s obsession …
Album Review: Tourists – Another State
The debut Tourists album is out now on Modern Sky UK. It’s not clear whether Tourists named themselves ironically or not. From the sleepy retirement destination of Torquay, about …
Album Review: The Jacques – The Four Five Three
The Jacques spread the net wide on their debut album. Five years is a long time in any field of the arts, but some transformations still happen slowly even …
Album Review: Cabaret Voltaire – Shadow Of Fear
Richard H. Kirk returns with Cabaret Voltaire for a first new album in over 25 years. Depeche Mode’s September 1981 Top Of The Pops performance of Just Can’t Get …