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With the exception of their low-key debut, Felt Mountain (2000), the release of every Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory album has been a glad cultural event. The duo's second, Black Cherry (2003), ... Read more
Recorded on the Stripes's 2007 Canadian tour, this film/live album package comes in umpteen editions. The film is ace, but confining ourselves to the CD half of UGWNL is no sacrifice. The riveting ... Read more
New York duo Pete Cafarella and Nate Smith first gained attention in America's nu-rave scene, wearing orange hoodies and scoring a cult hit with jerky 2007 electro-stomper Noise Won't Stop. However... Read more
The Stone siblings grew up in a beach town near Sydney, but their second album as a vocal/guitar duo sounds like it was made by Americans with a yen for Fleetwood Mac and Joanna Newsom. As on their... Read more
The second album by Titus Andronicus is ostensibly a concept album about the American civil war, or, according to singer Patrick Stickles, "about how the conflicts that led our nation into that gre... Read more
For 12 years and nine albums now, these Alabama-born, Georgia-based southern rockers have been putting storytelling to the fore, often focusing on the history and mythology of the southern states รข... Read more
Lou Rhodes's third solo album is also her first collaboration with Andy Barlow, her former partner in electronica duo Lamb, since they drifted apart in 2004. But anyone expecting a deviation from R... Read more
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Brad MehldauHighway RiderNonesuch2010When Brad Mehldau and the American producer Jon Brion met to mix drum'n'bass hooks and electronics with classical woodwind ... Read more
He may be best-known as the guitarist with that bravely experimental trio Lau (who won best group for the third year running at last month's Folk awards), but Kris Drever has all the makings of a s... Read more
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