Articles Posted in the Album Category
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Album: Nada Surf – The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
Like fellow power pop patrons Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet, transitions or genre-shifting have no place with Nada Surf. Their seventh studio album packs a mighty punch, but the sweet hook is very familiar.
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Album: Howler – America Give Up
Whoever proclaimed that guitar music is dead is just plain wrong. Hot on the heels of last week’s cracking new album from The Maccabees comes ‘America Give Up’ by Howler.
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Album: The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
The Maccabees’ third LP ‘Given To The Wild’ teases the listener with a two-minute introduction that hints at what’s to follow, with guitar-generated noises and Orlando Weeks’ voice echoing “wild away, wild away”.
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Album: Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
Youth Lagoon just so happens to be one of the finest among the recent spawning of bedroom based one man/woman bands.
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Album: Johnny Foreigner – Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything
This month the Birmingham trio give us another fix of angst-ridden melodic punk in this huge 17-track serving.
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Album: Yann Tiersen – Skyline
Everyone’s favourite contemporary French composer, Yann Tiersen, comes back this month with the release of his seventh studio album, Skyline.
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Album: Summer Camp – Welcome to Condale
Let’s face it, boy/girl duo’s are doing particularly well at the moment; take Big Deal, Cults and Jenny and Johnny, meeting your every desire for cliché-packed pop punches.
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Album: Violet Road – Violet Road
Violet Road are a Norwegian outfit, not that you’d think that though as they effortlessly produce an album consisting of flawless English.
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Album: Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls
This album is definitely for those among us that love their music the right side of melancholy. The songs aren’t quite at ease with themselves, whether this is reflective of the people behind the music, we’ll never know.
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Album: Still Corners – Creatures of an Hour
In a musical landscape where everything has to be loud, fast and in your face to make an impression on the masses, Still Corners are like hearing the light at the end of the tunnel.
