Cloudspeakers

If the outraged bleatings of the sensitive dears of the blogosphere were to be believed, the gates of Hades would've been too kind a resting place for its marijuana-puffing, ollie-pulling, Californ... Read more

You’ve got to feel for The Delays a bit; despite possessing one excellent debut in 2004’s Faded Seaside Glamour and an undeniably distinctive style - albeit largely thanks to the falsetto of lead s... Read more

If various pockets of backlash are to be believed, Chillwave already appears to be on the way out. That might be seen to be a hasty turn of events considering I wasn't even sure what it was until r... Read more

With very little now left to pillage from the 1980s, it seems that less enlightened musicians are starting to unearth the sods atop the 1990s grave to see what lies to loot beneath. The past decade... Read more

Looking back through original reviews of this album, it's hard to understand why Paul Draper and co. have been allowed to fall into forum chucklings about 90s also-rans; you know the ones - Menswea... Read more

As a moving tribute to the life of his Honduran-born mother Gloria Esperanza Montoya's, 2008's Glory Hope Mountain came across as Rolf Klaussner's personal Everest. The Acorn's chief songwriter led... Read more

"Do it my way, lines of cocaine," suggests James de Malplaquet during 'Chestnut Sunday,' and you can't help but think that, christ, things in this country must be going a bit shit if even The Miser... Read more

If early preview 'Spanish Sahara' told us anything, it was that the directly delivered menageries of 'Hummer' and 'Mathletics' were officially a thing of Foals' past. For this they deserve respect;... Read more

This is how you get to We Were Exploding Anyway. You release a debut album that, whilst acclaimed, is subject to a "no vocals but some guitars? Must be post-rock" summarisation from critics that'll... Read more

It’s been a good year for Postal Serviceindebted bands. First Owl City stormed his way to the top of the charts with rather more than a nod to Ben Gibbard and co. And now Leicestershire’s Kyte’s se... Read more