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album | Multicolor Recordings
1 January 2002
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Swim
31 March 2001
Swim champion all things lo-fi and post-rock so we should champion them too, but this release is a step backwards. Silo lie somewhere between...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
1 January 2002
Holy shit! Somewhere along the way the free-jazz hardcore sound has become the domain of the sound-editor and the result is simply genius-mentalism....
by Edward Blake
album | Ninja Tune
6 June 2004
At a dead end, bored with endlessly extracting sounds from vinyl and smarting at the lack of inspiration in his home town of Nova Scotia, Vaughn...
by Ed Thaw
album | Ninja Tune
4 November 2005
Skalpel tackle the difficult second album with a distinct change of tack.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Ninja Tune
5 April 2004
I can't remember how they did in the last Eurovision Song Contest. Nevertheless, I can safely say that Poland have not made an enormous musical...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Soma
30 June 2001
Hard to fault the Glaswegian granddaddies of techno after all they've done for the music many of us have enjoyed for the last ten tears or more....
by Gavin Weale
album | Most Records
28 April 2004
Tunisian-born musician Jean Pierre Smadja has been making and recording music since the early nineties, but this album seems certain to bring him to...
by Masta G
album | Eukahouse
30 June 2001
Who's that? Uh... sorry, you've caught me napping. Oh dear, I appear to have drooled and everything. I don't know what happened. One minute I was...
by Edward Blake
album | !K7
1 March 2000
Bristol's Smith and Mighty cement their relationship with Stud!o K7 by producing perhaps their finest work yet. Big World Small World is an...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Vertical Form
12 September 2002
There's a busker that regularly sits near London Bridge and bashes the hell out of various items of junk metal, such as pots and pans, buckets and...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Mental Groove
17 November 2004
In recent years there has been a shift in lyric writing away from the introspective, hypnotized verses of the early noughties. Hedonism in music is...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Hymen
1 March 2000
Purchased purely on the strength of the title this one could have been poor. But what seemed like a gamble came somewhat close to a jackpot, or at...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Output
1 March 2000
Bizarre, but oddly impressive stuff from one Mike Silver, here on The Underdog's notably leftfield label. Molten Timbre sets the tone, a...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Plastiq Musiq
1 January 2002
Sweet Jesus, the eighties have finally arrived! The nostalgia has been brewing and growing so much with all the bloody TV programs and big round...
by Edward Blake
album | Big Dada
20 April 2006
Big Dada's energetic new kids meld bouncy East Coast hip hop with what sounds dangerously like Brighton Big Beat circa 1996. Is it successful though?
by Masta G
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