Muse – The 2nd Law
Tackling a Muse [Twitter/Facebook] album is always a tricky task, not least because in recent times (certainly since 2006’s masterful Black Holes and Revelations) their ‘albums’ have tended to work more as collections… Read More
Fighting With Wire – Colonel Blood
I’ve mentioned it before, but the fact that Colonel Blood is Fighting With Wire’s [Twitter/Facebook] first album release in almost four-and-a-half years has already stacked the odds against them. The last time I was… Read More
Mumford & Sons – Babel
Some sentences always come with a qualifier. ‘I like Mumford & Sons [Twitter/Facebook]’ is one of them. They’re one of those bands that one always has to justify liking, as their folk… Read More
The Killers – Battle Born
It’s taken almost four years for The Killers [Twitter/Facebook] to get to where they are now, and even then, there were some who thought they wouldn’t get here at all. Frontman Brandon… Read More
The Vandelles – Strange Girls Don’t Cry
Summertime is the seasonal metaphor for change, the days are longer, the sun is shinning and there is a sense of renewed energy in the air as the ambiance of the days… Read More
Sarah Williams White – Your Silence is Killing Me
New and thrilling ways of creating pop music are always there to be discovered, and it’s often the oddest or most unconventional artists who strike gold quickest. Sarah Williams White [Twitter/Facebook] (or… Read More
Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer
There’s nothing shameful about wanting to make a ‘big’-sounding record, in any genre. Production value is more often than not quite a good thing, just so long as a band or artist… Read More
Tom Hickox – The Angel of the North
For Tom Hickox [Twitter/Facebook], being an accomplished musician would seem to run in the family. He is the son of the late Richard Hickox (CBE), a Grammy-winning conductor, and the mother of… Read More
