Cloudspeakers

2009 must have been a strange year for Laura Marling.Although she didn't release anything herself, she watched her backing band Mumford & Sons outflank the rest of the nu-folk flock and break throu... Lees meer

It may be a stretch to call Joanna Newsom's third LP her down-to-earth pop record.Have One On Me does, after all, extend across three CDs of generally very long songs, features a harp duelling with... Lees meer

Cluster remain one of the most unusual and unsung of the original Krautrock wave.Their airy excursions into abstract electronic sound lack the propulsive rhythms of Neu! or the whimsical experiment... Lees meer

The internet can be very useful at creating an instant, infinite book of condolences, and when Jack Rose died of a heart attack on December 5 last year, at home in Philadelphia, an intimate portrai... Lees meer

In these X-Factor times, the cover version finds itself in a difficult place, somewhere to the left of those old Top Of The Pops albums on which the day's hits were mimicked by soundalike groups, a... Lees meer

In Spring 2007, only weeks after the release of their underrated second album, Tones Of Town, Field Music glumly announced a hiatus. Miscast as quirky indie-popsters, they felt creatively suffocate... Lees meer

"Public Image would like to thank absolutely no-one." The dedication on PiL's first album served notice that John Lydon's punk sneer hadn't entirely vanished. Released in December 1978, First Editi... Lees meer

Massive Attack are not just here for the nasty things in life, but so often it seems that they are. With the country mired in recession and the prospect of a Tory government installed by the summer... Lees meer

Anyone examining Gil Scott-Heron's career will be troubled by a profound paradox. Here is a hugely intelligent poet, jazz musician and political activist who spent four decades dispensing sage advi... Lees meer

It cannot be said of Hot Chip's particular muse that she is a complacent, idle creature.In the decade that the London group have existed, they have done all of the following, mostly with considerab... Lees meer