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Vague, passable dance tracks that you’re only aware are on in the background because of the gnawing sensation that daylight saving went mental and set the clocks back 20 years.»
The most impressive aspect of Trust is how satisfying it is.»
A bright and breezy album that’s easy to like, even if Nataly Dawn’s palpable enthusiasm does occasionally tip over into being cloying.»
Back in 1979 Neil Young addressed worries of his own impending irrelevance on ‘Hey Hey, My My’, acknowledging critics who had accused him of sliding towards the middle of the road with his hit album Harvest and explicitly declaring his intent to arrest the drift. Such an accusation of burgeoning artistic anonymity isn’t really something that’s ever been levelled at Eels, AKA Mark Everett, AKA E. »
If Family Guy ever did a joke about Krautrock, this is how it would sound.»
Far from falling under the weight of either expectation or ambition, {awayland} is a far more magnificent progression from Jackal than any of us could have hoped for.»
'Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness,' said the Austrian-Brit phi»
Dept. of Disappearance is a good album that makes for a pleasing listen, despite its lack of ambition.»
Play might be a bit of a thrown together casserole of tracks, but it’s an enjoyable one that only the coldest hipster would begrudge Field Music.»
Algiers is recognisably a Calexico album, which will undoubtedly please their many admirers. But it's the first hint they may have run out of ideas.»
The Darkness appear to have neatly set themselves up to be immune from criticism.»
If we all have to celebrate England’s green pastures at the moment, then this is the way to do it.»
A collection of half-baked, badly-produced versions of sounds we heard a couple of years ago.»
One thing that The Lost Tapes reminds us is that for all their genius, Can weren’t quite perfect.»
There’s a hell of a lot of people out there who still like anachronistic soft rock, and you’d have to be something of a shit to begrudge them this.»
A sharp barb aimed squarely at anyone who earnestly praised the music of Skrillex.»
An unabashed throwback, but it’s a throwback that’s accomplished, likeable, and a lot more fun that it probably should be.»
For those who haven’t heard the originals, this is as opportune a moment as any to unearth some of the strongest songs in either artist's back catalogue from a pair of albums that tend to merit small mention in discussion of their discographies.»
This is an album to tire of before it’s even had the chance to permeate every pub you visit.»
Daniel Rossen may be sticking to what he knows best, but why would you want him to do anything but? ‘Silent Song’ is the ultimate alternative folk-pop track: uplifting, understated and yet epic, hook-laden and heartbreakingly pretty... and destined to have a restraining order against it from any singles chart. ‘Up On High’ meanwhile sounds like a hipster take on Led Zeppelin’s ‘Battle of Evermore’, with the same folky roots sprawling from the influence of Fairport Convention.»
It’s a mess, and in places an utterly glorious one.»
It’s like an album of Ocean Colour Scene covering Grizzly Bear songs.»
We pride ourselves at DiS on not making crass, sweeping generalisations, but there is absolutely no one in Britain who is eagerly anticipating the new record from Cast.»
There’s not a great deal here you could consider a landing light on the runway towards ‘Babies’, Different Class, ‘Common People’ or Glastonbury ’95.»
The Cactus and the Dragon, with its shades of dark green and brown and reeking of stale coffee from a roadside diner, is a seriously impressive piece of work.»
Back in 1902, cinema was still a relatively new concept. It was, after all, only seven years since Auguste and Louis Lumière had pioneered motion pictures with L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: the moving image of a train pulling into a station »
It’s all a bit like watching Ross from Friends threaten to kick someone’s ass. »
Yes it’s flawed, but as freshman records go, this is an exciting template for a career of overwhelming prettiness.»
Can, and Tago Mago’s groundbreaking work has never been so wonderfully presented, and this reissue is a neatly packaged reminder of its stunning timelessness.»
A record with all the spirit of Microsoft Excel.»
