Album review: Lightspeed Champion, 'Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You' (Domino)
When Domino Records’ dance-punk trio Test Icicles split in 2006 with just one full-length release to their name, few could…
Air – Love 2 (EMI)
Love 2, Air’s latest offering, arrives two years after the release of Pocket Symphony, and an entire electronic decade since…
Ones to watch: Twisted Wheel
There are many gems of wisdom our parents have taught us to heed long beyond childhood; we should all aspire…
The Twilight Sad: a look into the night ahead
It’s surprising: for a band whose roots are embedded in a region north of the border, The Twilight Sad sure…
Malcolm Middleton's long, dark night
Malcolm Middleton @ The Hanbury Club, 25/11/2009 Strangely enough, the first article I ever wrote for the music pages of…
Weezer – Raditude (DGC)
Raditude is Weezer’s seventh studio album and arguably one of their best. When I think of Weezer I think of…
The Musical Noughties: A decade of repetition, stagnation and boredom
At the turn of the millennium, few would have expected the next decade to offer another Velvet Underground. Musical revolutions…
The XX justify the hype
The XX @ Audio, 27/10/09 One of Brighton’s best sound systems had the pleasure of hosting one of Britain’s most…
Camera Obscura showcase their maudlin career
I’m torn. On one hand, I’m wondering whether I’m supposed to report that my experience of Camera Obscura was…
Raw Tactics – Street Justice Mixtape
This Brighton based pair bring us an album that presents a mix of beats, rhymes and strings. There is a…
Pick of the Week 05/10/09- Music
Annie Mac: Presents Thursday 8th: Digital Annie Mac returns to Digital – for fresher’s: provider of one of the best…
Richie Phloe
Richie Phoe has been living in Brighton for five years now, and makes critically lauded dub and reggae. So why…
The Perils – Good People Do Bad Things (Militant Entertainment)
According to their PR, The Perils are the hi-octane antidote to ‘these troubled times of economic recession and downturn.’ As…
Joe Gideon & The Shark
Joe Gideon & The Shark – a brother and sister two-piece from London – play a raw, bluesy brand of…
Rosie Brown – Strange Recollection (Stuck Records)
Our very own Sussex alumnus, Rosie Brown, delivers her third album, a collection of songs comprising of an original mix…
Radio Trip – Music Heads (Jalapeno)
Being signed to a funk/soul driven label such as Jalapeno means that your music must be of a certain calibre…
Say hello to The Duke
It’s a splendid thing, the Scottish music scene. Home to the humble kilt, the slightly less delectable haggis and, err,…
The Bobby McGees: eager to please
Like many a literary theory, anti-folk music is difficult to pin down. Some people will eulogise about it for hours,…
Den Saakaldte – All Hail Pessimism
Drawing from the blood of bands such as 1349, Gorgoroth, Shining and Dødheimsgard, Norwegian supergroup, Den Saakaldte’s members are very…