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As the soothing sounds of Rhye’s second album float past, plenty of comparisons come to mind. Take The xx, whose disdain for unnecessary ornamentation can be heard in Blood’s comforting,…
Craig David – The Time Is Now review
Remember when, a decade ago, Craig David was the punchline to a joke on a Channel Four TV show? You may need a reminder: the programme’s title came from David’s…
Go Kart Mozart – Mozart’s Mini-Mart review
“I do not think of myself as a musician, more like a painter working away in total isolation, unknown and without success.” Thus run the liner notes to the fourth…
Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel review
Minnie Riperton was a progenitor of what might be termed “hippie soul”… jazzy, psych-inflected, woozy, loose in terms of structure. And Perfect Angel (1974) was her finest moment. The former…
tUnE-yArDs – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life review
Not only are Tune-Yards now a duo, with bassist Nate Brenner granted official membership by Merrill Garbus, but they’ve also dropped their aggravating tUnE-yArDs typography. The lo-fi trappings of yore…
Revolutionary Spirit – The Sound of Liverpool 1976-1988 review
Revolutionary Spirit is a companion piece to 2017’s Manchester: North Of England 7CD compilation. This 5CD bookset covers a period during which Liverpool demonstrated it had a lot more to…
The The – Trilogy…The Inertia Variations review
Described in the recent documentary The Inertia Variations as the “biggest skiver on the planet”, Matt Johnson may have kept a low profile since 2000’s Naked Self, but he hasn’t…
Squeeze – The Knowledge review
Fired up by Squeeze’s first album of new songs in almost 20 years – 2015’s Cradle To The Grave, their highest charting record ever – Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook…
P!nk – Beautiful Trauma review
You can’t please all the people all the time, but P!nk’s seventh gives it her best shot. This, naturally, includes roping in Eminem – again – for a strangely jovial,…
Liima – 1982 review
Having established themselves as Efterklang, one of Denmark’s more fetching exports, Casper Clausen, Rasmus Stolberg and Mads Brauer formed Liima in 2015 with Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö to explore their…