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Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (Parlophone) Neil Tennant is in the form of his life as the synth-pop legends celebrate going back home with one of their most diverse albums…
Review Round-Up Issue 85: Top 6 New Releases
Pick Of The Pops – Our Issue 85 New Release Review Round-Up THE KILLERS: REBEL DIAMONDS (EMI) Announced at relatively short notice in November, by their standards The Killers’ new…
Liam Gallagher: C’mon You Know review – “surprises abound around almost every corner”
If Liam Gallagher’s first two solo studio albums were well judged examples of giving fans what they want while pushing the envelope just that little bit further each time, then…
Review: xPropaganda – The Heart Is Strange
Nearly 40 years after A Secret Wish, Propaganda’s frontwomen reunite with their producer to reclaim their rightful place among synth-pop’s finest… All that we see or seem is but a…
ABBA Voyage – New album review
ABBA VOYAGE Polydor 7/10 Do they have it in them…? Well, that was the main concern when ABBA announced they’d reconvened and were back in the studio recording songs that…
Toyah – Posh Pop review
After years of copyright wrangling, the belated reissues of her early albums has finally allowed Toyah to be reassessed. So far, Sheep Farming In Barnet and The Blue Meaning have…
New album review: Gizelle Smith – Revealing
Gizelle Smith Revealing Jalapeno Records 8/10 Gizelle Smith’s sonic palette is broadened for her third studio album – rock, pop and electronica influences are now woven into the mix alongside the…
Sunshine Walkers: The Best Of Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry
Album Review of Sunshine Walkers – The Best Of Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry K L Recording 7/10 Forming Katrina and the Waves after the first incarnation of The Soft…
New release: Låpsley – Through Water
Låpsley – Through Water – XL Recordings “I’ve been working on myself while I’ve been away,” Holly Lapsley Fletcher sings on First, one of her second album’s prettiest songs. Indeed, having shaped…
New Release: Roger Eno & Brian Eno – Mixing Colours
This isn’t the first time, of course, that Roger Eno has paired up with older brother Brian. Though denied a headline slot, he can be found prominently on Eno’s classic…