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The Wonder Show of the World by Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang – Album ...
by Matt Callard Entering his 40th year and more prolific than ever, this is Will Oldham’s 20th album (in his ... -
Quarantine the Past by Pavement – Album Review
by Matt Callard It wasn’t really until Blur name-dropped Pavement as an influence that the New York band started to ... -
Raw Power by The Stooges – Album Review
by Matt Callard Oh, that title… does anything else really need saying? The seventies Iggy Pop, unloved and unsuccessful, with his ... -
69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields – Album Review
by Matt Callard Stephin Merritt had rattled about on the periphery of the New York alternative scene for a decade. ... -
Shadows by Teenage Fanclub – Album Review
by Matt Callard There’s little credit these days for being tunesmiths of the highest order. Although apart from debut album Bandwagonesque‘s ... -
A Spanner in the Works by Beans on Toast – Album Review
by Matt Callard Another December 1st birthday for erstwhile drunk, political commentator and folk stalwart Jay McAllister can only mean ... -
Dream Darling by The Slow Show – Album Review
by Matt Callard Frequently lovely but ultimately frustrating second album from Manchester-based four-piece. It promises much but doesn’t quite deliver on ... -
Fables of the Reconstruction 25th Anniversary Edition by R.E.M. – Album Review
by Matt Callard It’s difficult to remember just how thrillingly odd R.E.M. were in 1985. Stipe, for a frontman, was ... -
Hawk by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Album Review
by Matt Callard I never bought into the Nancy and Lee for the noughties thing. Belle and Sebastian member hooks ... -
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire – Album Review
by Matt Callard Third album – touchstone or tombstone? Having had greatness thrust upon them with justly-celebrated debut Funeral, only ... -
The Wants by The Phantom Band – Album Review
by Matt Callard Debut album Checkmate Savage has bubbled away very nicely since 2009. Initially picking up two-paragraph plaudits then ... -
Record Collection by Mark Ronson – Album Review
by Matt Callard Ooh, it’s the It Guy. Credentials? Some hip-hop pedigree, multi-instrumentalist, decent ear for new talent, coupla Amy Winehouse-affiliated ...