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Even if Hidden didn't work - and it mostly does - it ought to be celebrated for sheer bravery.On this follow-up to 2008's Beat Pyramid,These New Puritans again build a framework of big thwonking hi... Read more

After Swedish indie rockers Love Is All finished touring in support of their second album, they found themselves without a record label and therefore free to write and record whatever they felt lik... Read more

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Could Bombay Bicycle Club have anticipated that this is the year they'd finally get some kudos? Fresh from wowing the hordes on the NME Awards Tour and their rightly deserved win as Best New Band a... Read more

It's hard to be ambivalent about Los Campesinos!, but with this third outing a slight distancing has set in. There's no mistaking the band's distinct sound, with its barrage of noise-driven guitars... Read more

Earlier this year, Vampire Weekend and Serena-Maneesh both introduced highly anticipated albums by taking ownership of their most divisive qualities and presenting them to their detractors without... Read more

In their effort to deliver a more ‘mature’ sound on their second album, Manchester’s The Courteeners instead give us Falcon, an overly safe, bland dadrock affair that relies too heavily on repetiti... Read more

Dat een experiment met blazers, elektronica en agressieve drums zo zou aanslaan, hadden we nooit durven denken. Gewaagd maar vooral geslaagd door het feit dat These New Puritans de grens van de pop... Read more

So over the top you have to laugh in amazement, the audacious second album from this English foursome is an unholy fusion of fractured hip-hop textures and art-pop decoration (somber brass, childre... Read more

With her piercing squawk, Love Is All frontwoman Josephine Olausson could be a disruptive preteen deserving of serious medication, or a stretch in after-school detention. But her aim is true on the... Read more