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  • Avacate - Ghost Of A Former Self

    Review By Gary Smith, 25/08/09

  • No Consequence - In The Shadow Of The Gods

    Review By Gary Smith, 28/07/09 - Released on Basick Records, 17/08/09

  • REM - Automatic For The People

    As a two-fingered riposte to the globe-masticating success of its predecessor, the nauseatingly cheery and insincere Shiny Happy People, the dirge-like and funereal Drive was selected as the flagship single for their new opus. Peculiarly, it would immediately gatecrash the US top thirty although, less surprisingly, it was also omitted from the subsequent In Time compilation, a Stalinist exercise in revisionism if ever there was one.

  • Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime

    As the album progresses, fictional figures disparate as Icarus and Scorsese’s Rupert Pupkin (who all but supplies both title and therefore title track) are referenced amidst the customary barrage of pummelling riffs and lyrical sniping (“Sniff the glass and let it roll around on your tongue/Let me introduce you to someone before the party is done”-King for a Day)

  • Bob Dylan - Bring It All Back Home

    Bringing It All Back Home, the 1965 album in which Bob Dylan broke free from the shackles of acoustic music and began his gradual drift away from the out-and-out protest song, represents a perfect marriage between two genres which, up to the record's release, had never been brought together in such a way. To fans of Dylan, this is no revelation - Bringing It All Back Home is, after all, commonly held up as the album that gave rise to the 'folk-rock' movement...

  • Keane - Hopes and Fears

    Keane might just be the only band in Britain to have the dubious privilege of being able to say they're named after a dinner lady.  Then again, they might also be the only band in Britain to want that privilege.