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Feeder: 'Silent Cry'
With a ‘Best Of’ released two years ago and five prior LP releases stretching over the past decade and a half, Feeder should by now be firmly established as rock icons.
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Four Year Strong: ‘Rise Or Die Trying’
It’s clear that Massachusetts five-piece Four Year Strong are destined to be the darlings of the emo-pop-punk circuit, and with it’s popularity somehow still growing there’s never been a better time either.
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Joan As Police Woman: 'To Survive'
Having graduated from the New York “Beauty is the new Punk Rock” scene with her highly regarded debut 'Real Life', Joan As Police Woman, alias Joan Wasser, returns with a collection of sublime, unpolished honesty.
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Sigur Ros: 'Meo Suo I Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust'
Once again, Sigur Ros have effortlessly crafted a resonant, cavernous long player that pitches and swells with expansive, sonorous beauty.
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Mark Morriss: 'Memory Muscle'
It’s nigh on an impossible task escaping the spectre of past glories, but it’s a challenge Mark Morriss heads with easy going affability. The former Bluetone marks 12 years with his first full length debut, ‘Memory Muscle’, and it’s very much an album made in the mould of the man himself.
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Ladytron: 'Velocifero'
Ladytron have never had a problem embodying aloofness or revelling in the icy reservation of their persona.
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Albert Hammond Jr: 'Como Te Llama?'
While the album recalls The Strokes’ lazy guitar pop with a more homespun aesthetic, Albert has his own voice, these songs do speak for themselves, and are proven easily a match for some of the best Strokes’ material, though never quite scaling to the heights of his band’s epochal early singles.
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My Morning Jacket: 'Evil Urges'
After the critically acclaimed 'Z' album, My Morning Jacket here reunite with the prolific producer John Leckie, the man who previously worked wonders with such indie luminaries as The Stone Roses, Radiohead and The Verve.
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Martha Wainwright: 'I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too'
With her second album, Martha Wainwright stands up to be counted among not only the multitude of singer/songwriters, but also to distinguish herself from the infamous Wainwright/McGarrigle clan.
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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: 'Angles'
The question of how to follow a single of the calibre and impact of 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' is a crippling thing that these two talents have had to face up to.
