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It Around Donavon Frankenreiter 6ek7
Frankenreiter continues to purvey his blend of easy grooves and laid-back philosophy.
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Calypsoul 70 Various Artists 254a5n
You get the idea. It's brilliant.
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The Week That Was The Week That Was 2k2y2y
Like many a concept-heavy creation, it promises more than it delivers...
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Earth To The Dandy Warhols The Dandy Warhols 28235r
Criticising the Warhols for being arch is like criticizing the Pope for being Catholic.
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Khora Aufgehoben 4p1w6h
This is music that seizes you by the collar, screams in your face and doesn't let you...
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Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers u39o
Forty weeks after its million-selling US release, the Jonas Brothers second album is...
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Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust Sigur Rós 5v6z2v
Sigur Ros remain in a wonderful universe of their own.
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Live At Dead Lake Hot Club De Paris 5n2z2t
Liverpool trio Hot Club de Paris' second album trails adolescent awkwardness.
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Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea Silver Jews 414d3v
Perhaps it's enough to say that this is the best album to come out of Tennessee this...
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Perfect Unpop Various Artists 2ib3t
''If you dance to the music the night will go on and on''.
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Another Country Tift Merritt 1nd17
These songs are as pretty as snowflakes.
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Warpaint Black Crowes 2qq6e
Warpaint never quite catches fire as it should.
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Asa Asa 5i2y11
Asa is clearly a talented writer and musician with a great voice.
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Just A little Lovin' Shelby Lynne 3a5g44
Lynne has substantially raised the stakes for country, pop and r&b here.
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Watershed kd lang 1c4767
A good album to put on to cheer up the end of winter.
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Pagina De Buenos Aires Fernando Otero 1g5c3p
Urbane and exotic, surreal and streetwise, and alive with invention and emotion.
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Cymbals Vinicius Cantuaria 3h3k39
...every track seems to suggest boundless musical possibilities.
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How To Grow A Woman From The Ground Chris Thile 6e446f
His willingness to experiment appears to have caused something of a furore in the...
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Tonight At The Arizona Felice Brothers 6m1q4o
Ultimately the album succeeds by reminding us that the best folk music has always been...
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BFI The Dragons 6l675u
The Dragons stand on the verge of getting it on throughout BFI, and if they never...
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Sermon On Exposition Boulevard Rickie Lee Jones 4jj1r
The singing is superb throughout, perhaps the one element to really benefit from the...
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There Will Be Blood Jonny Greenwood b6026
One half of the brothers Greenwood turns his able hand to more great soundtrack work...
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Englaborn Johann Johannsson 70q1d
Reissue of the year, without a doubt.
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American Gangster Various Artists 6ar58
Like the film, no real surprises here, but, for a large amount of the time, this is...
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All Hour Cymbals Yeasayer k4960
...a cosmic barn dance.
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Listen to its brilliance and treasure its beauty.
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Rokku Mi Rokku Youssou N'Dour l6562
Youssou gives us a needlessly Westernised offering...
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No Place Like Soul Soulive 4rk3w
Even the most successful tracks only really make you want to go and listen to some...
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Mantaray Siouxsie 5p4b1c
Astonishingly, this is Siouxsie Sioux’s debut solo album...
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Transformers Various Artists e604p
A creditable clutch of new rock, boasting work by, among others, Linkin Park and the...
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You may even find it just about makes up for the inevitable failures of the British...
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Maskarada Taraf De Haidouks 5u153n
Sadly this is not so much the frenzied new-folk cabaret promised so much as an...
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Interpretations: Celebrating The Music Of Earth Wind And Fire Various Artists 3u6z3b
The re-birth of the Stax label kicks off with this tribute to maurice White and his...
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United We Swing Spanish Harlem Orchestra 184i5d
The sound of El Barrio brought to life once more by New York's finest salsa band...
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It's A Bit Complicated Art Brut 4zb3n
It's 1992 all over again, but is Art Brut's second album more Menswear than Jarvis?
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Apples June Tabor 5q5t29
Tabor’s voice is superb throughout, delving deeply into tradition to reveal the art...
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Beauty And Crime Suzanne Vega 47i4b
This is not quite the paean to Vega’s New York past that we might have hoped for.
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At My Age Nick Lowe 232an
Lowe, the incorrigible codger, still greets the advancing decades with a wry turn of...
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Moonshout Transglobal Underground 5q182z
Transglobal Underground have returned like a band of cosmic mutant rebels...
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Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever The Cribs 665m6o
'Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever' sees the Cribs step up to the major league...
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This Is England - OST Various Artists 336i3i
All in all, a soundtrack as epic as its film counterpart.
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I Wish I Could Have Loved You More Candie Payne 1m6t58
'I Wish I Could Have Loved You More' is not alright, but it’s okay.
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A Hundred Miles Or More Alison Krauss 695g34
...The album is definitely one you will want to put on repeat.
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The Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate Leonard Cohen 2k1r6s
Dismissed by a later generation as the acme of hippy gloom, Cohen’s work actually...
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These re-releases best serve as a reminder of the unacceptable face of progressive...
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Iron Maiden Iron Maiden 1y475d
...get a copy, wind the volume and give it a jolly good thrashing!
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Dr Feelgood Motley Crue 6a3d1k
Bigger and even more bombastic!
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Blizzard Of Ozz Ozzy Osbourne 48411b
...presents a set of lyrical caricatures over ferocious rock riffing...
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Tim The Replacements 3p5n6f
...this gritty and melodic album still seems as freshly hewn as ever.
