The xx - xx
posted on Sat 5th Jun 2010Imagine if you will, a rainy night in May. Some friends and I are at another friend's birthday party, cooped up in the lounge listening to music. It's that time of late night/early morning where we've probably all had a tad too much and have decided to solve our problems by vegging out on the sofas. Then a song came on. Of course, chill-out stuff had been playing the whole time but this one made me sit up and take notice. "Sounds a bit like The xx this" - I probably said. read more
Muse - The Resistance
posted on Sat 24th Jul 2010I know, finally I'm reviewing an album from a group that's mainstream! Maybe when we all recover from the shock we can celebrate. But I'm aware that in reviewing this album I'm actually breaking one of my own rules. Yeah, because in my family's album club we looked at The Resistance in week one and I kind of promised that I would never review an album that we nominated for album club. Oh well, I'm breaking that rule now. Because, quite frankly, Muse are too good a band for me to not dedicate a whole review to them some time. read more
Stromae - Cheese
posted on Thu 26th Aug 2010
A couple of weeks ago there was a rare planetary alignment, a cloud of shooting stars, or something mystical...because I listened to an electronic dance album. Now, on a second glance this is not as earth shattering as I had thought, in fact quite a lot of my favourite bands can be, and are, considered as electronic e.g. The Prodigy, Groove Armada, Pendulum, The xx, Goldfrapp blablabla...Hey, even Depeche Mode have synthy moments. read more