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BMG 4/5 Songs about sex and about Scandinavian design. Songs about The Macbeths and about Edith Piaf. Yep, the Mael brothers are back, and as delightfully oddball as ever. If…
OMD – The Punishment of Luxury album review
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.…
Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife, Release and Fundamental review
Tennant and Lowe kick-start mammoth project featuring expanded reissues of some of their best work… a treasure trove of goodies for PSB fans Parlophone 4/5 These three Pet Shop Boys…