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Whatever
People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
~Arctic Monkeys
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Audio CD - Domino / January 23, 2006
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Hot on the heels of their shock No.1 single "I Bet
You Look Good On The Dancefloor", Whatever People
Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not confirms
Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys as the UK underground’s
most proselytising young preachers of the DIY
gospel. Marrying nervy,...
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Eye to the
Telescope
~KT
Tunstall
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Audio CD - Relentless / January 10, 2005
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If the art of the female singer-songwriter revolves
around coffee table soliloquies then Eye To The
Telescope--the debut album from Edinburgh-born
chanteuse / guitarist KT Tunstall--is a pleasing
mediation between the traditional demands of
brooding egocentricity (espresso) and frothy
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Employment
~Kaiser Chiefs
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Audio CD - B-Unique / March 7, 2005
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On Employment, raffish, trilby-clad young
Leeds quintet
Kaiser Chiefs prove themselves the logical heirs
to the Britpop throne previously warmed by the likes
of Blur and Supergrass, twinning expectant verses
with rollicking choruses and generally acting very
much like indie-rock's latest swaggering...
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Demon Days
~Gorillaz
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Audio CD - Parlophone / May 23, 2005
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Drop an anvil at the recording of Demon Days,
the celeb-packed second album from
Gorillaz – the Technicolor front for Blur's
Damon Albarn, producer Dan the Automator, artist
Jamie Hewlett, and rapper Del Tha Funky Homosapien –
and you'd probably have crushed a half-dozen B-list
musicians,...
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X&Y
~Coldplay
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Audio CD - Parlophone / June 6, 2005
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Coldplay were faced with a difficult choice as they
set to work on X&Y. They could either
follow Radiohead’s lead and use their enormous
success and financial security as a springboard to a
brave experimental future--or they could play it
safe, repeat the tricks used on the 16...
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Back to
Bedlam
~James Blunt
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Audio CD - Atlantic / June 13, 2005
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As a piece of propaganda,
James Blunt’s album Back to Bedlam does
more for changing the face of the British Army than
a series of television adverts ever could. Swapping
a rifle for a guitar, the former cavalryman’s
ballad-heavy debut is a clearly aiming to win the
battle for the...
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Stars Of
CCTV
~Hard-Fi
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Audio CD - Necessary/Atlantic / July 4, 2005
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Road-tested in a car speeding the mean streets of
Staines, Stars Of CCTV - the debut album from
Middlesex’s Hard-Fi – consciously sets out to update
the sense of frustrated tension and suburban dread
that powered second-wave ska acts like The Specials
and The Beat back at the close of the...
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Supernature
~Goldfrapp
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Audio CD - Mute / August 22, 2005
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With their
Black Cherry album, the duo of vocalist
Alison Goldfrapp and composer Will Gregory moved
emphatically away from the folky, filmic forays of
their debut
Felt Mountain to explore edgier, sexier
themes. Supernature, their third long-player,
continues to probe this more "adult" world,
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The Life
Pursuit
~Belle & Sebastian
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Audio CD - Rough Trade / February 6, 2006
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Time has revealed Belle & Sebastian’s reputation for
a rather wimpy indieness to be more the result of
their relative inexperience than any real
predilection for twee juvenilia. On their seventh
album, The Life Pursuit, we find these errant
Scots further building on the surprisingly
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The Magic
Numbers
~The Magic Numbers
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Audio CD - Heavenly / June 13, 2005
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In an age of vigorously-marketed rag-trade clothes
horses, Trinidad/New York/London collective
The Magic Numbers are an anomaly; a
word-of-mouth phenomenon whose affable live shows
have been compared to happy clappy religious
experiences and whose music - an unfashionable blend
of soft country pop...
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Keys to
the World [Parental Advisory]
~Richard Ashcroft
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Audio CD - Parlophone / January 23, 2006
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The Verve fought their way to the top of the Britpop
pile with a series of triumphant, world-beating
anthems, but since their dissolution, frontman
Richard Ashcroft’s muse has led him further into
introspective, acoustic territory. Quite heartening,
then, that his third album kicks off with a...
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The Back
Room
~Editors
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Audio CD - Kitchenware / July 25, 2005
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The debut album from
Editors, The Back Room confirms this
young Birmingham quartet as torch-bearers for a
British rock legacy that harks back, via short
sojourns through the back catalogues of The Cure and
Echo and the Bunnymen, to Joy Division's peerless
Unknown Pleasures.
Combining the...
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You Could
Have It So Much Better
~Franz Ferdinand
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Audio CD - Domino / October 3, 2005
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You Could Have it So Much Better, the second
album from Mercury Music Prize winners
Franz Ferdinand is pretty much everything a
band’s second record should be: an assured,
endearingly cocky return that builds on the
strengths of its predecessor, and importantly,
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Comfort of
Strangers
~Beth Orton
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Audio CD - Emi / February 13, 2006
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Cult Brit indie-folk songstress follows up 2002's
'Daybreak' with this fourth album. Recorded in just
two weeks with indie-rock guru Jim O'Rourke (Gastr
Del Sol, Sonic Youth, Wilco) at the helm, it
continues Orton's move away from the electronica
elements that adorned her earlier work to a more...
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Ballad of
the Broken Seas
~Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
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Audio CD - V2 / January 30, 2006
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At first glance, it’s a bizarre pairing: Isobel
Campbell, formerly of Scots twee-popstrels Belle and
Sebastian, and Mark Lanegan, the giant redwood who
towered at the microphone of Seattle’s Americana
demi-legends Screaming Trees. But on Ballad Of
The Broken Seas, we see not only many...
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Funeral
~Arcade Fire
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Audio CD - Rough Trade / February 28, 2005
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"Wake Up," a track from, Funeral, the debut
full-length by Montreal's
Arcade Fire, builds from a midtempo strum into a
"You Can't Hurry Love" gallop, which singer Win
Butler interrupts with a yell: "You better look out
below!" Somehow, none of this hits the ear as
over-emotional. Throughout Funeral,...
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Mother
~Kubb
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Audio CD - Mercury / November 14, 2005
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About the Artists
Kubb, the band that is to all intents and
purposes a vehicle for UK singer-songwriter Harry
Collier, have already built up quite a history: born
in Liverpool, but raised in Tobago in the Caribbean,
Collier got his break while waiting tables at London
café, when by chance, Rollo from Faithless...
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First
Impressions Of Earth
~The Strokes
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Audio CD - Rough Trade / January 2, 2006
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This album comes in luxury packaging for a limited
period: a six panel digi-pack, die-cut front with
three inserts and a 32 page booklet.
The Strokes have taken to fame with a cheer most
politely described as grudging, but not even
front-cover adulation and celebrity girlfriends can
crack these New...
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From Under
the Cork Tree
~Fall Out Boy
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Audio CD - Mercury / May 23, 2005
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Fall Out Boy cooks up an immediately digestible
combinationof crunching rock, highly melodic
songwriting, and expressive singing on 2005's FROM
UNDER THE CORK TREE, the Chicago unit's first
release on Island, and its most accomplished to
date. Building on an instrumental foundation that
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American
Idiot [Parental Advisory] [Explicit Lyrics]
~Green Day
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Audio CD - Reprise / September 20, 2004
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There's a clenched fist grasping a heart-shaped hand
grenade on the cover of American Idiot, a
militant mural presumably designed to inform us that
Californian punk-pop vets Green Day love America but
hate what's becoming of it. Inferences aside, you
could argue that American Idiot is a
suspect...
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Clap Your
Hands Say Yeah
~Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
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Audio CD - Wichita / January 23, 2006
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Brooklyn five-piece Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are the
latest word-of-mouth sensation to power their way
into the mainstream. Their debut album allegedly
sold 25,000 copies around the States--all packaged
and dispatched from the band’s front room--before
they signed a deal.
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Brassbound
~Ordinary Boys
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Audio CD - B-Unique / June 20, 2005
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The second album from
The Ordinary Boys, Brassbound finds this
mod-styled Brighton bootboys evolving from the
Weller-style Britpop of their debut,
Over The Counter Culture, making explicit
the dub, reggae, and ska influences that previously
only lurked in the shadows. It’s a wise move, as
the...
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