The Head And The Heart Album Review
They are heartbreaking and heartmaking in their delirious intensity. Seldom has the name of a group matched their effect on the audience.
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Teddy Thompson ‘Bella’ Album Review
There is no finer interpreter of other people’s songs on the music scene today than Teddy Thompson. His own songs are confessional, black and uplifting.
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The Decemberists, ‘The King Is Dead’ Album Review
Moving on from their rock opera “The Hazards of Love’, Colin Meloy and The Decemberists have crafted a lighter American roots-focused work that features the terrific vocals of Gillian Welch on several tracks.
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Brian Eno ‘Small Craft On A Milk Sea’ Album Review
This album consists of several short pieces, most of them quiet evocations of deeply felt landscape and geography.
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Pacifika: The Vivascene Interview
Following the release of Pacifika’s second album we spoke with Silvana Kane, the group’s lead singer, about their music.
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Bryan Ferry ‘Olympia’ Album Review
This one approaches ‘Avalon’ in its surprising and sophisticated intensity, but with its 21st century sonics delivers even more mystery.
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Neil Young ‘Le Noise’ Album Review
Two brilliant Canadians, Neil Young and Daniel Lanois, who have each forged new directions in music, have now come together on Le Noise.
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Leonard Cohen ‘Songs From The Road’ Album Review
‘Songs From The Road’ contains live performances of many of Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs; these are not necessarily his “greatest hits”.
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Nick Cave: Grinderman 2 Album Review
Nick Cave is your songwriter noir deluxe. For decades he has been churning out material of this sort, worthy of Warren Zevon’s best.
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