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Album Review: Kylie – The Abbey Road Sessions
Kylie + Ballads = ? It can mean the devastating soul-ache of Put Yourself in my Place the cool psycho-eroticism of Where the Wild Roses Grow , the electro existentialist breakdown of Breathe or if you’re really stretching it, the wonky tick-tock of Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi. Kylie…
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Album Review: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
Before today there was a past of looping tapes, back bedroom antics, tape recorders and reels set on pause and hours and hours of sounds unheard, small symphonies for no-one. Before today there was an Ariel Pink whose schizophrenic jingles captured the unsettling haze between waking and sleeping, the feeling…
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Album Review: Cheryl: A Million Lights
Just ‘Cheryl’, not Tweedy, thankfully not bloody Cole, just ‘Cheryl’ – a name like a pound shop Sindy doll with a face you could squash, like a finalist in a Miss Doncaster 1988 contest, malleable Cheryl with her everyday moniker. Hardly a rousing sucker punch in the gob of pop…
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Album Review: Rufus Wainwright – Out Of The Game
For some, Rufus Wainwright will always be a master of dramatics. He is their coruscating vision in the darkness, possessing a voice that cannot help but flood every syllable with such high emotion that he leaves you clinging helplessly to the wreckage of melody waiting for the gale force…
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Album Review: Madonna – MDNA
It’s okay, we can all rest easy. The embarrassment of Hard Candy is well and truly over. No more hiding behind your hands, cringing and wishing Pharrell and Timberland would just leave the Candy Shop FOREVER. Soon those horrific memories of the farty beats of 4 Minutes and the utterly…
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Album Review: Cousins – First Cousins
It is unbelievable that in an age where we are hard wired to seek out the undiscovered and elevate the unknown to ubiquitous cool in the blink of an eye that someone as talented as Euros Childs can remain a secret. It seems that we are caught in an epidemic…
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Album Review : Azari & III – Azari & III
There’s been a bit of the predictable knicker-twisting going on in certain familiar quarters regarding dear old Azari & III. The tiresome argument questioning the necessity of an ’80s/early ’90s house revival, the yawning rallying call of the bored and cynical ‘hasn’t this all been done before’ is enough to…
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Album Review: Lana Del Rey- Born to Die
Lana Del Rey does not really need to release an album. Due to the warp speed of the internet she’s had a whole career in a matter of months. It seems that we have already tired of her before Born to Die has actually been heard in full. All this,…
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Album Review: Lady Gaga- Born This Way,The Remix
Do we really need a Gaga remix album? Wasn’t the head-spinning, unicorns-and-rainbows-in-a-can delight that was the original Born This Way enough? Apparently not, apparently we need something that can be played in a hairdressers of a Saturday afternoon, for some Fade Streeter to cue up between stares and sighs at…
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Album Review: Amy Winehouse- Lioness : Hidden Treasures
In July we packed away our comedy beehive wigs and scrubbed off our felt tip pen tattoos because the joke just wasn’t funny anymore. The inky Id, our little black shadow that seeped forth from our mental diaries, who we listened to aching through speakers and headphones as the jet…
