Album, Single, EP and Live Reviews

Albums: Light Pollution - Apparitions (Carpark)
The winning formula for Light Pollution is a good energetic beat behind their ambient constructions, and a discernible refrain in front of them.
Posted on Jun 21st, 2010
Live Reviews: Band of Horses @ Camden Roundhouse 09.06.10
The lights go down and the slightly bloated, slightly older, slightly more hirsute audience in the Roundhouse hushes. Not to be greeted by the American gentlemen we’re here to see just yet, we are instead subjected to the unmistakeable opening passage from Phil Collins’ 'In The Air Tonight'.
Posted on Jun 21st, 2010
Albums: Perfume Genius – Learning (Organs/Turnstile)
A collection of songs so sincere and angst-ridden that your own emotional cracks will begin leaking at the seams
Posted on Jun 21st, 2010
Albums: David Karsten Daniels & Fight the Big Bull – I Mean to Live Here Still (FatCat)
Reaching for the stars, Daniels' latest collaborative work is full of otherworldly compositions
Posted on Jun 21st, 2010
Albums: James Yuill - Movement In A Storm (Moshi Moshi)
Yuill raised the bar with his debut record, but is it a case of second album syndrome for the English folkster?
Posted on Jun 21st, 2010
Live Reviews: Slow Club @ The Cockpit, Leeds 29.05.10
Having released their album ‘Yeah So’ earlier this year, Slow Club seemed to Bearded like a band who would play a calming, airy-fairy acoustic gig punctuated with little other than song announcements.
Posted on Jun 20th, 2010
Albums: Von Spar - Foreigner (Italic)
This is disco so cosmic it’s barely disco anymore.
Posted on Jun 17th, 2010
Albums: Tiefschwarz - Chocolate (Souvenir)
German deep house electro leaves you hoping for a little more.
Posted on Jun 17th, 2010
EPs: Washed Out - Life Of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
The sound of the summer can be found on Washed Out's new EP, and it's a euphoria you can get lost in.
Posted on Jun 16th, 2010
Albums: Unbunny - Moon Food (Affairs Of The Heart)
This quiet storm of a record is another convincing portrayal of the classic post-hippie alternative dilemma, rejecting the culture that labels Unbunny a freak and a failure...
Posted on Jun 15th, 2010
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