Album Reviews

• dEUS: 'Vantage Point'

  From a country most famed for it’s waffles, this Belgian rock band has delivered yet another stunning album and gained a whole new wave of younger British fans.

   
• OTT: 'Skylon'

  OTT's third album is a rather difficult album to pass comment on. Terming itself as “chilled, dubby beautifully produced electronica”, which is in fact little more than chill-out music, it’s the sort of thing you’d expect to find in a backroom of an Amsterdam coffee shop or emanating from incense infested student halls.

   
• Various Artists: 'Disco Not Disco'

  Those not familiar with post-punk, electro and leftfield, like myself, may need a few listens to get your head around such an eclectic amalgam of chilled out tunes, funky beats and sexy bass lines, but it’ll conquer you in the end.

   
• The Shortwave Set: 'Replica Sun Machine'

  ‘Replica Sun Machine’ is an album packed with so much talent that it should, by rights, be a total triumph. In fact, it’s like a fake Rolex that dies after a week – shiny on the surface, empty of substance.

   
• Boogaloo Stu: 'Enough About You... Let's Talk About Me'

  For those of you that don't live in Brighton (and if you don't then we send our commiserations), Boogaloo Stu might need a bit of an introduction. Full-time DJ, scenester and, in his own words, 'day glo dandy', he's all over Britain's favourite city by the sea like the letters through a stick of rock.

   
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!'

  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds return with their fourteenth studio album and what an album it is! The dark and unsettling narratives get under your skin and it’s impossible to stop listening once you start.

   
• One Night Only: 'Started A Fire'

  Not another one. By that, I mean those faux-indie polished pop acts with a manicured look and sound, devoid of anything resembling substance. Skinny jeans, carefully coiffed ‘messy’ hair and little or no discernible talent.

   
• Moby: 'Last Night'

  Hands up anyone here who still likes Moby. No? Odd. Well, not really. Since his genuinely enjoyable bucketload-selling 'Play' record, everyone’s favourite slaphead advertising exec, sorry, pop dance DJ, has struggled to reach the heights of the closest he’ll ever get to a ‘masterpiece’.

   
• Duffy: 'Rockferry'

  Birthed from the influence of sixties idols such as Dusty Springfield and Lulu, Duffy has been one of 2008's strongest-performing new artists, and for good reason. Her record company have taken this amazing set of pipes and fashioned a clean and presentable version of Amy Winehouse out of the Welsh beauty.

   
• Tindersticks: 'The Hungry Saw'

  The Tindersticks release their first studio album for five years – but are they still relevant?

   

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