CD Reviews

6/10 Rock’n’Roll Star. Despite the cockiness you’ve got to feel sorry for Liam Gallagher. Younger sibling, massive monobrow, less talented in the songwriting stakes than

7/10 Hard rock antiheroes Look up ‘Joshua Michael Homme’ in the great rock’n’roll dictionary*, and you’d be likely to find the description; ‘world’s most prolific

5/10 Fault-J Like a postgraduate study group who have somehow bumbled onto a festival stage by mistake, it seems Oxford’s nicest trio of art school

9/10 drivetime dreaming. Philly has always been something of a hotbed of musical talent, but over the last few years the game has been raised

8/10 American beauty. “You get ready you get all dressed up/to nowhere in particular…it don’t matter coz it’s enough/to be young and in love,” sighs

8/10 nu-disco inferno Bringing another dose of that synth-heavy nu-disco sound that he’s so well known for, DJ par excellance Pete Herbert has joined forces with

9/10 bloody good. Round two for Royal Blood and it’s business as usual for the Brighton-based duo. Namely an instantly listenable foot-stomping guitar-driven din with exactly

8/10 Tru dat. In a grim month that has seen the UK capital knocked for six by a slew of terror attacks and one of

7/10 high season. Five albums in and it seems that Gothenberg four-piece Little Dragon have musically settled into some kind of rhythm. Where 2014’s Namuba

7/10 sing when you’re winning. This time last year was a very, very good time to be in Leicester. Against staggering odds (5000-1 according to