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Ed Sheeran - +
So a few months after Benjamin Francis Leftwich released his debut album (anyone remember him?) and we have yet another solo folk artist making their debut. I've made my thoughts known about how this...
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Kasabian - Velociraptor
Kasabian, by now, have pretty much established themselves as on UK's biggest current rock acts. After a powerful debut, a second album that built upon it, and a third album that has received critical...
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Mastodon - The Hunter
Ah metal. The genre that seems to be reviled by critics, yet adored by its fans. Out of all the rock trends, it is the genre that has managed to survive, never really being in the mainstream, but still...
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Blink 182 - Neighborhoods
Blink 182 are a band who can send people into fits of nostalgia at the mere mention of the name. Memories of sitting in rooms, singing along to 'All the Small Things' or crying to 'I Miss You' were...
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I'm Back!!!
Hey guys! Now I haven't been very active over the last few months, mainly because I have been at university doing my best to not pass my degree, and instead sleeping a lot, drinking a lot and generally...
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Top 5 WORST albums of 2011
Inevitably, in a year filled with some brilliant albums, you are going to come across some albums which are truly dreadful. Some of them are dull, some don't live up to the hype they were given, and...
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Top 10 BEST albums of 2011
So here we are...at the end of the 2011. Its been a good year, full of fantastic music in all genres. We've seen countless reunions, several break ups, brilliant debut albums, defining albums for...
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Reviewing the BBC Sounds of 2012 Poll
Well, can you believe it? I've been doing this for a whole year now...It was around this time that I first wrote the review for White Lies' Ritual which was pretty much my first review (excluding the...
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The Maccabees - Given To the Wild
AT LAST, an album worthy of note that has been released in 2012. It has been TOO long since I last reviewed an album on its own, which I believe was...Blink 182, back in September...ouch. So not only...
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Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
If there was a definition of a 'marmite band' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Enter Shikari next to it. Their debut, 'Take to the Skies', was revered by many as being a brilliant...
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Miike Snow - Happy To You
Once again, thanks to university, I have pretty much been oblivious to what the music industry has been producing. The clubs I go to at my uni tend to have one playlist, which is pretty much 'Party...
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An extended break...
Hey guys. Recently I haven't really been releasing any content, which has been down to several things...The first reason is that there hasn't been much in the way of album releases that have really...
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Muse - The 2nd Law
In a recent interview with NME, Matt Bellamy revealed to the world that he believed people were skeptical of Muse's new dubstep approach on their 6th studio album. To be fair to him, he wasn't wrong....
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White Lies - Big TV
It seems fitting that after so long having not done an album review that the first album I come back to is by the same band whose second album was the first one I ever reviewed on this blog. The...
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New Schedule!
Hey guys! This is just a brief post about a few changes to the blog. I realised one of the reasons why I wasn't putting as much time into the blog in the last year or so was mainly down to not having...
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Decade Jump: Elbow - Cast Of Thousands/Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood
This is the first of what will hopefully become a regular feature on this blog, with a post every Sunday! Each Sunday, I look back 10 years and listen to an album (or several) that I believe were...
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Album Review: Drenge - Drenge
Garage rock can often be seen as one of the more limiting rock genres. It focuses on taking things back to basics, often with bands being made up of only a guitar and drums, resulting in a very DIY...
View ArticleNew Single Releases (18th-24th August)
Hey guys, this post is less a new feature and more a resurrection of an old one, being the new singles of the week review. I did a few of them a while ago, which you can find around August 2011....
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What I'm Listening To - Iceland has invaded my music library
What I'm Listening To is the last of the new features I'm introducing to this blog. Basically, its a run down of either a particular album or a group of bands that have captured my interest. In...
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Album Review: Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
It was around the first half of the 2000s that we saw the emergence of several new indie bands, all of whom were praised by critics and fans alike. Whether it was the Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, The...
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Bastille - Things We Lost in the Fire [3/5]It seems we have ourselves a wannabe Coldplay on our hands...well, actually that is quite harsh. The latest single by Bastille actually isn't too bad. The...
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Album Review: Arctic Monkeys - AM
(Warning: This is a long one...)Normally I would say that if an album gives you a headache, its a bad thing. Its the sort of description I would give to a Skrillex album or One Direction's latest...
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Mercury Prize Nominations 2013
So its that time of year again where the very best of the British bands (arguably) get their albums pined over by a bunch of independent judges who, after so many years of this awards ceremony taking...
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My Album Picks of 2013!
Hey guys! Its been a while since I have posted anything on this blog, mainly because I've been working hard at university for my final year! Unfortunately, the huge amount of work leaves little time to...
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A Change of Scene + Reviews of 2014!
Hey guys, this is just a quick update blog post over the future of the blog. I've been with blogger now for about 3 years now. It seems like a long time ago that I released the first blog post on...
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