Royal Treatment Plant – Get Played

Royal Treatment Plant – Get Played (The Light Music Network) Released: 14/04/08 Rating: 4.5/5 You like metric? In my book, any band that damn well rips off those beautifully scraping guitars and brash female vocals are doing something good. Royal Treatment Plant are such a band; imploring your attention by giving a cheeky wink to

Rotary Ten/Colour – Time Is not a line and I am not a Rock/ Chutes

[Split single] Rotary Ten/Colour – Time Is not a line and I am not a Rock/ Chutes (Xtra Mile Recordings) Released: 21/04/2008 Rotary Ten: 5/5 Colour: 4.5/5 Xtra mile might well be our favourite record label right now, bringing us a beautiful split single from Rotary Ten and Colour. Rotary Ten are a band sizzling

Laura Marling – Ghosts

Laura Marling – Ghosts (Virgin) Released: 28/01/2008 For a seventeen year old girl from the country bumpkinesque geographical wilderness that is Eversley (Reading), Laura Marling sure is a fair few years ahead of herself; whether it’s due to her porcelain innocence evoking the brooding fairytale folk of Stephanie Dosen or Marling’s musical competence and multi-layered

Bonde Do Rolê – Marina Gasolina

Bonde Do Rolê – Marina Gasolina (Domino Records) Released: 26/11/2007 Rating: 3.5/5 Part of the point, we suppose, of what the cool kids are calling ‘Baile Funk’ or ‘Funk Carioca’, is that the music sounds licentious and dirty, the kind of unfinished pumping, rip roaring beats that caress your naughty bits, and funky rhythms that

Bonde Do Rolê – Marina Gasolina

Bonde Do Rolê – Marina Gasolina (Domino Records) Released: 26/11/2007 Rating: 3.5/5 Part of the point, we suppose, of what the cool kids are calling ‘Baile Funk’ or ‘Funk Carioca’, is that the music sounds licentious and dirty, the kind of unfinished pumping, rip roaring beats that caress your naughty bits, and funky rhythms that

Asobi Seksu – Strawberries

Asobi Seksu – Strawberries (One Little Indian) Released: 12/11/2007 Rating: 4/5 Those habituated to friends thrusting perceived good musical intentions upon them (damn you My Bloody Valentine), will be all too familiar with these New Y’oiks repackaging the self-celebratory shoegaze genre into something altogether more palatable. Their new single ‘Strawberries’ cometh from the depths of

Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler

Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler (Wichita) Released: 26/11/2007 Rating: 3.5/5 Time passes much like birds migrating for the winter; caught briefly between the flitter of an eyelash before disaggregating into specs of dust. it wasn’t that long ago that SMD rose like a particularly well plucked phoenix from the decidedly downtrodden indie ensemble that was

Adele – Hometown Glory

Adele – Hometown Glory ( Pacemaker) Released: 22/10/07 Adele’s debut rides along on the Amy Winehouse white horse of vocal intonations, joining a flock of female singer songwriters gliding around the upper echelons of the chart. A Londoner lost within her own thoughts in the spatial confines of the capital unfortunately positions her in the

Ungdomskulen – Ordinary Son

Ungdomskulen – Ordinary Son (K7) Release Date: 1/10/07 Rating: 4/5 Some bands enjoy confusing the record buying public. We have to presume that Norwegian underbellies Ungdomskulen are of that kind; throwing around a name that supposedly refers to middle school (dictionary says Ungdomsskole) and not ‘scowling youths’ (dictionary says maybe- our Norwegian does admittedly suck);

Justice – D.A.N.C.E (Remixes)

Justice – D.A.N.C.E (Remixes) (Ed Banger Records) Release Date: 24/09/07 Rating: 4/5 Daft Punk have a lot to answer for it; were it not for their infectious electronic/rock crossover album ‘Discovery’, dance music would have been infinitely condemned to consumption via pill popping, neon tee wearing, jump around types brandishing glow sticks. On D.A.N.C.E (aptly