Demob Happy

The best? 7/10 I am not a massive Talking Heads fan, but I love ‘Remain in Light’ and got this Best-of as well to sample all of their other albums at once. However, I am suspicious that this is not a truely representative selection because the three songs from ‘Remain in Light’ have been so [...]

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Black Cherry B-Sides at Best! 6/10 Supernature picks up where singles off Black Cherry such as ‘Train’ and ‘Strict Machine’ – in my mind that albums weaker moments – left off. I have heard Alison Goldfrapp in the press saying that they aimed to make this album more stripped down, the production simpler. This has [...]

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Dntel work 7/10 I bought this expecting something similar to The Notwist, as it has been widely billed as a seminal ‘indietronica’ album in which Jimmy Tamborello enlisted a host of singers and musicians from the indie scene (including Chris Gunst from Beachwood Sparks, Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Brian McMahan from [...]

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Light as Air 6/10 Air’s third album proper is a cautious fusion of its predecessors, the much-imitated lounge classic Moon Safari and the plainly silly prog folly 1000 hz Legend. Despite the appallingly smug and unimaginative cover, Talkie Walkie opens with promise. Venus, Cherry Blossom Girl and Run evoke the kind of wigged-out, androgynous space [...]

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New Clothes for the New World 7/10 Disco Inferno are an interesting footnote to the British music scene in the mid-90s. Its 1994: while Britpop was rearing its ugly head in the guise of the Gallagher Brothers and their rivals Blur, and trip hop burgeoned under the commercial success of Portishead’s Dummy and Massive Attack’s [...]

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Subtle, emotive electro-pop 8/10 You may find yourself slightly perplexed after the first listen of this album given the collective orgasm seemingly experienced by the music press about Last Exit. It is, however, a subtle, gentle grower. The missing link between Underworld, Talk Talk and New Order, it places delicate, slightly Indie vocal melodies over [...]

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