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When New Young Pony Club first released ‘Ice Cream’ on Tirk Records in 2005, it felt like they were destined to become Favourite New Band to a lot of people. The 1,000 copies of the seven-inch ... Lees meer

Long free of petulant yelper Pennie and without a single ‘Monster’ in sight, The Automatic have transmogrified into a professional, mature proposition. Shorn of some sharp edges by the passage ... Lees meer

They nicked it all off The Fall, could barely carry a tune in an industrial excavator and sounded like they recorded everything in a studio made from rusty tin buckets under Stockton, California’... Lees meer

After over a decade in the wilderness, Tim Simenon– the twisted brains behind Bomb The Bass– returns with his second album in less than two years. Any doubts that this newfound prolificacy may ... Lees meer

Sounding like the kind of band who’d make sweet love to your sister and then thieve your Poison Idea records afterwards, London-based sleaze punks The Smoking Hearts’ debut ‘Pride Of Nowhereâ... Lees meer

Leaving aside efforts from bagpipe ensembles and suchlike, the second album by Glaswegian pop hen Amy Macdonald will be the most Scottish record released this year. Not in a misty-eyed thistle-bran... Lees meer

For every Kissy Sellout or Drums Of Death giving electro a bad name, for every po-faced post-rock meanderer that thinks they’re God’s gift just because they play guitar slowly, there’s sadly ... Lees meer

As (mostly) fun as The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather have been, boy does this little DVD/Live album package makes you miss The White Stripes something rotten. The beautifully shot doc follows the... Lees meer

The jazzy singer-songwriterisms of Casey Dienel’s debut, ‘Wind-Up Canary’, gave no preparation for the baroque worlds conjured by her reinvention as White Hinterland on 2008’s ‘Phylactery... Lees meer

One million and one bands try to do this. And of these around one million (now that Grandaddy are no more and Joy Zipper are AWOL) get it horribly wrong. But Canadian husband-wife duo Olga Goreas a... Lees meer