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The Men - Leave Home
You won’t end up playing this right through after long, but the gold parts of Leave Home are noiserock in excelsis.»
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
There’s a lot to admire about James Ferraro, and for better or worse there’s no-one really like him in modern underground music, but you need to be cool with the possibility that you’re getting pranked.»
Class Actress - Rapprocher
Seriously, though, this is a fantastically arranged and conceptually exquisite record, and as much as it feels like anathema to say that a contemporary pop highpoint has sprouted below the surface, in the case of Class Actress it’s true.»
Disco Zombies - Drums Over London
Even if you aren’t an especially zealous punk archivist, this is a glowing example of what was happening below the surface.»
Man… Or Astro-Man? - Your Weight On The Moon (reissue)
For now, it’s neat and justified that these records are back in print.»
Faith - Subject to Change and First Demo
Subject To Change deserves to be thought of as one of the first melodic hardcore records, as significant to the form as Bad Religion or the Descendents.»
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
It’s largely futile to try and define Wolves in the Throne Room by the standards of American black metal, or the genre as a whole.»
The Raincoats - Odyshape (reissue)
Ordinary women playing extraordinary music.»
DJ Diamond - Flight Musik
All you need to know is that Flight Muzik is awesome and if you liked any other footwork stuff you heard, you will very probably like this too.»
Machinedrum - Room(s)
All told, Travis Stewart doesn’t seem ashamed to be a dance genre magpie: you might even say it’s essentially his M.O.»
Hey Colossus - RRR
Hey Colossus extremely serious about making killer out-metal, and even if they don’t seem that anxious to become a self-sufficiently big and properly appreciated band… well, maybe we the world should force it up on them.»
Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
Two-and-a-bit hours of sonically dense bangers which, at times, represents a high water mark for the last decade of punk.»
Kellies - Las Kellies
A totally kickin’ album for anyone who likes the springy, sinewy post-punk that came out of early-Eighties Britain and the equivalent period NYC.»
Boris - Attention Please/Heavy Rocks
The thing about going about your biz in the way Boris have done for most of their existence, switching styles from release to rele»
Winter - Into Darkness (reissue)
As astonishing as this must have sounded 21 years ago, if it had emerged in any year since, Into Darkness would at the very least have been a comprehensively crushing 46 minutes of music.»
Hype Williams - One Nation
If you had to single out something as being symbolic of 2011, you could do a lot worse than this album.»
Weedeater - Jason... the Dragon
Jason... The Dragon, like the three albums preceding it, takes the discipline of sun-baked, night-frozen downtuned pummel extremely seriously.»
Katy B - On a Mission
A pop album which comes off as written from life while also addressing the concerns of its audience.»
Hunx and His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love
Who knows – some legitimate success might fall into their lap in the near future.»
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now!
Clock rolling backwards or no, Eleventh Dream Day can still gnarl out with expertise.»
FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain
FaltyDL’s heritage is not found in Plumstead towerblocks, and he’s right not to try and emulate it too much. »
Queens of The Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (reissue)
Recalls a time when to see a band list Queens Of The Stone Age as an influence wouldn’t have told you they were going to be shit, as it now does.»
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockavelli
If you can accept the idea that one of the most exciting rap albums of recent times has come from someone who doesn’t actually do that much rapping, then Flockaveli awaits you. If you can’t, then this is gonna be a tough one. »
Psychic Paramount - II
If Comets On Fire made great capital from pushing the basic idea of Blue Cheer to the outer limits, these guys have grabbed the COF baton, eradicated every last trace of woolly hippy from the aesthetic and replaced it with clods of homebuilt-robot-gone-bad industrial, the MBV end of shoegazing and spiritually cleaning noise music. »
James Blake - James Blake
Boldness is not the same thing as greatness, and James Blake is not a great album. »
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
A tribute to a longtime bandmate and friend, one in which he gets to take part in spite of departing the planet, and a collection of songs which at different points are clever, funny, fulsome and moving.»
Leo Zero - Disconnect
Contains no notable cynicism or obscurity for obscurity’s sake, and springs from the probably reinforced racks of a geezer who knows his onions.»
Y Niwl - Y Niwl
There’s no obvious answer to ‘Why are four dudes from North Wales jocking the eternal sound of beach-bound pre-LSD American youth?’ aside from ‘why not?’»
The Bug - Infected
It’s a strong release, with moments which sound a timely reminder of why The Bug has cast a shadow over UK bass music in the last decade.»
Various - Black Hole: Jon Savage Presents/California Punk 1977-1980
A world full of smackheads and thugs and benders and vile performance art brats and people who by most accepted metrics were basically talentless - some of them made some of the most exciting music the planet has been graced with to date.»