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The Heavy Circles The Heavy Circles 3p1y22
None of this is world-changing stuff, even if it does sound like it was fun to make.
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Dwell Envy Corps 1zu28
Dwell is an impressive album of other people's voices and other people's tunes.
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On Your Sleeve Jesse Malin 2k6df
While On Your Sleeve is obviously a labour of love, on the whole it's simply just...
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For rare groove aficionados it doesn’t get any better than this...
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Rain Joe Jackson 444o4n
A consistently high-level display of songwriting craft.
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Jukebox Cat Power 683q47
Jukebox makes for a smart and occasionally fantastic diversion.
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Strawberry Jam Animal Collective 4r295n
This is one band who won’t be heading towards the road’s middle for some time yet.
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The album that may make 's favourite blues/world artist finally make his mark in...
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Tenebrous Liar Tenebrous Liar 4z4y2
The bulk of this self-titled album appears to be the work of a man only...
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Definition Of X: Pick Of The Litter DMX 2r1x64
The Yonkers rapper's compilation of the Def Jam years.
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Two Shoes The Cat Empire 3c1w5u
Festival favourites produce a good time album for good time people...
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Playtime Is Over Wiley 5u1t5o
'Playtime Is Over' is no classic, but those retirement plans could be on hold for a...
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Masterpiece Nathan 3v4yr
It’s no masterpiece, not yet, but frequently Nathan comes damn close.
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Public Warning Lady Sovereign 4o553u
Those inevitable and lazy Vicky Pollard/chav comparisons will soon come thick and fast...
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Pac's Life 2Pac 4z6w45
...at best, an ill-fitting tribute.
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Second Round’s On Me Obie Trice 3u3rl
...something of an endurance test.
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The Return of Doctor Octagon Dr Octagon 176p2l
A real dogs breakfast of an album.
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Navy Brown Blues Mocky k61u
Think Prince meets Cameo with a touch of Howard Jones.
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Laugh Now, Cry Later Ice Cube 3nj3p
...this exercise in nostalgia is, on the whole, a thrilling one.
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Who Needs Action When You Got Words Plan B 4x431j
...starts off illuminating, but ends up banal.
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Blood Money Mobb Deep 1b61e
Has Fiddy been feeding them stupid pills?
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It's Not a Rumour Akala 573b32
...fizzles with raw energy and outrageous talent.
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YoYoYoYoYo Spank Rock 3ol62
Filthy, funky and addictive...
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Unpredictable Jamie Foxx 55f
...a solid enough collection of slow jams, but one parading under a misnomer of a title.
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New Whirl Odor Public Enemy 1k2v3j
Their overtly political stance seems about as contemporary as The Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Barrio Fino Daddy Yankee 1o395u
...you can hear the careers of Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias crumbling into dust.
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Take London Herbaliser 3g6z2x
...whatever they produce has always been executed with irable levels of wit,...
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The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Quasimoto t5f12
...less an album than an extended skit.
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The Emancipation Of Mimi Mariah Carey 6e5c25
Running the risk of sounding like just about every other R'n'B diva on the block is a...
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Fear Of A Black Tangent Busdriver 241934
...performs a strain of hip-hop about as far out on the peripheries as the genre gets.
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The Documentary The Game 6r3b3f
...musically brilliant, but otherwise curiously sterile.
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Encore Eminem u4336
...an album for the ers, a few great songs tacked onto an hour of dicking about.
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The Grind Date De La Soul 693e2k
...the competition might be all Tito's and Randy's, but De La Soul are still the main...
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Up 2 Di Time Vybz Kartel 4g6x3
Vybz Kartel has the sound and the attitude to be a big star and he's riding some of...
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Presents Pet Sounds Live In London (DVD) Brian Wilson a4z4h
Grown men turned back to boys again and Brian Wilson's genius was reconfirmed in...
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The Massacre 50 Cent 275m24
As a marketing exercise it's genius...
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The Definitive Collection Tom Jones 5b4351
This really is the definitive collection from a much-loved legend.
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...certainly entertaining and occasionally mind-blowing.
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Afrolution, Volume 1: The Original African Hip Hop Collection Various Artists 1yw3h
...as an insight to a world beneath the headlines Afrolution is invaluable.
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Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited Various Artists 6xm2r
As an experiment, this is mostly lost in translation.
