Gideon Brody
Currently, I'm being allowed to scribble music-based brain nonsense by two lovely establishments, Drowned in Sound and MusicOMH. I previously wrote for The Music Magazine. This is by far the most interesting thing about me.
Reviews from last 12 months
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Beneath This Burning Shoreline, eh? So Cherry Ghost aren't in the best place, then. It wasn't exactly beaming rainbows on 2007's Thirst For Romance either, even if the hopeful sentiments and melodi... Read more
What does America sound like? We know what it looks like. It's beautiful enough to make you cry. It's ugly enough to make you sick. America’s soul is similarly conflicted. One minute it's a country... Read more
Time hasn't been too kind to James Lavelle's UNKLE project. Just flip the pretty, typically provocative album artwork of Whre Did the Night Fall around and glance at the state of Lavelle's pulling ... Read more
No matter what industry shit-stirrers say, self-loving supplement writers write or international governments allege about Maya Arulpragasam, there's one thing that, thankfully, they just can't do: ... Read more
Towards the climax of Queen Of Denmark's impossibly poignant opening track TC And Honeybear, John Grant's distinctive baritone swells like the heart of a teenager, caught by the heavy tide of young... Read more
Sub Pop has to be one of the only remaining record labels whose history and influence still overshadows the music it hosts. It's a logo every self-respecting Music Lover should know, stamped discre... Read more
For casual observers, the emo/power-pop/post-hardcore/whatever the fuck it's called scene happily died a death some time ago. Panic! At The Disco were little more than noisy and vaguely more litera... Read more
Those familiar with Fan Death's earlier 2008 single outing, 'Veronica's Veil', will be glad to know that in the not inconsiderable time since its release the Canadian-based threesome have not chang... Read more
Stuck in the midst of winter, it's sometimes hard for us to see as far as its end. It must feel like a trudging schlep for record label bosses, too. December and January are famously quiet months f... Read more
Doves have always felt a little like Elbow's extrovert alter ego; a band happier being at the heart of the maelstrom than contemplating its hung-over afterglow. Whereas Elbow can be characterised b... Read more
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