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White Noise 4/5 Halfway through OMD’s 13th album, there’s a brief piece – part song, part collage – entitled Precision & Decay, a requiem for Detroit’s industrial decline. A ghostly…
LCD Soundsystem – American Dream album review
DFA Records/Columbia 5/5 When LCD Soundsystem announced they were disbanding in 2011, a considerable song and dance was made about the news: a four-hour show at New York’s 20,000-capacity Madison…
Liam Gallagher – As You Were album review
Warner Bros Records 4/5 The unfairly maligned Beady Eye may not have set the world alight but the younger Gallagher brother’s solo debut is everything you could reasonably hope for.…
Alison Moyet – Other album review
Picking up where her last record left off, Alison Moyet pairs up with producer Guy Sigsworth for her ninth album, an intensely thrilling tour de force Cooking Vinyl 5/5 “Suddenly…
London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing album review
London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing Album Review Metal & Dust / Ministry of Sound 4/5 With their debut EP described in The Guardian by Classic Pop’s own…
Blondie – Pollinator album review
Blondie are back with their 11th album Pollinator, and it’s rammed with guest singers and acclaimed songwriters. Are we still touched by their presence, dear? BMG 3/5 The problem with…
Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution album review
PARLOPHONE 3/5 “My mind is a running stream,” Paul Weller sings at the beginning of Nova, “stretching down by the side of a willow tree”. It’s a lyric that would…
Gorillaz – Humanz album review
More fun than a barrelful of monkeys, Gorillaz’ fifth long-player requires perseverance, but reveals itself over time as equal parts exciting and experimental Parlophone 4/5 The evolution of Gorillaz has…
Elbow – Little Fictions album review
Balancing the grandeur with delicacy, Elbow’s rhythmic seventh album is grounded by Guy Garvey’s Flashes of precious, and very human, insight [Polydor Records] 4/5 It’s dangerously tempting to assume an…
Brian Eno – Reflection Review
Should current events be causing too much turmoil in your life then we recommend Reflections by Brian Eno, which has been relaxing us all year long. Wyndham Wallace reviews. …