The Last Skeptik – Thanks For Trying (BBE/Border) CD REVIEW
If you like Diplo and that aesthetic, you'll probably like The Last Skeptik.
Nadine Shah – Love Your Dum And Mad (Rough Trade) CD REVIEW
Peter Kearns would be happy to hear Nadine Shah sing the phone book. If there were still phone books.
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows (Clouds Hill) CD REVIEW
Peter Kearns has fun dipping his toes into some avant-garde pop.
Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing (Merge) CD REVIEW
Witchdoctor's new music review Peter Kearns debuts with an album of machine whinges.
Splashh – Comfort (Breakaway/Rhythmethod) CD REVIEW
There is a wall. And Splashh are on the other side of it.
Mark Lanegan/Duke Garwood – Black Pudding (Ipecac) CD REVIEW
Emphysema crooner, meet atmospheric instrumentalist.
Queens Of The Stone Age – …Like Clockwork (Matador) CD REVIEW
Josh Homme is a retro enigma, and his record's not half bad, either.
The Cat Empire – Steal The Light (Two Shoes) CD REVIEW
If you like The Black Seeds, you may like the Aussie equivalent, writes Gary Steel. It's not meant as a compliment.
Disclosure – Settle (Universal) CD REVIEW
Gary Steel has a dilemma with one of the best-sounding albums he's heard in an age.
Stellar* – The Best Of (Sony) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, and finds this 'best of' less than stellar.
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