Squarepusher – Shobaleader One: d’Demonstrator (Warp/Border)
Squarepusher sells his talent, and his audience, short on his hit and miss Shobaleader One project
Jayson Norris – Freedom Twenty Eight (Loop/Border) CD REVIEW
Kiwi abroad fashions an album, but hard bastard that he is, Gary Steel is unimpressed
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney/Universal) CD REVIEW
Daft Punk have done the soundtrack to Tron: Legacy, and Gary Steel has reviewed it
Michael Jackson – Michael (Epic/Sony) CD REVIEW
Shock, horror, the "new" Michael Jackson album is an exercise in "commercial necrophilia", reckons Gary Steel
Doobie Brothers – World Gone Crazy (Eagle/Shock) CD REVIEW
Doobie Brothers drop a bundle that's less than smokin', but may prove reliably nostalgic for fans
Cassandra’s Ears – The Cassandra’s Ears Story (Blind Date) CD REVIEW
It's not perfect, but it's about time attention was paid to reissuing our NZ pop history, and Cassandra's Ears prove worthy of the effort
The Veils – Troubles Of The Brain (Pitch Beast/Native Tongue) CD REVIEW
Finn Andrews has a seven song EP of tentative half-songs. Gary Steel wonders why.
Lyrics Born – As U Were (Mobile Home/Shock)
Lyrics Born makes an ambitious hip-hop album that's actually fun to listen to. Pity about the singing.
Susumu Yokota – Kaleidoscope (Lo Recordings/Border)
Leading ambient artist returns to form on a very hallucinogenic long-player
Osunlade – Occult Symphonic (R2/Border) CD Review
A mix CD with a difference - it's actually quite good, in a dubby minimal techno fashion
Matthew Dear – Black City (Ghostly International/Border) CD Review
A electronic world of Matthew Dear just got a whole lot darker on this great album
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes (Dew Process/Universal) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, this time with a rather fetching debut that combines folk and
Twin Shadow – Forget (4AD/Rhythmethod) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, this time a singular one-man-band with promise
PVT – Church With No Magic (Warp/Border) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, and this time gets a dose of Depeche Mode via PVT
The Puddle – Playboys In The Bush (Fishrider) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, this time with an oddball NZ figure whose new album has
Eric Clapton – Clapton (Reprise/Warner) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases, this time reassessing old 'slow hand'
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby – Lonely Avenue (Nonesuch/Warner) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases he out to have reviewed, this time an odd union between author and songwriter
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle (4AD/Rhythmethod) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, and ends up liking an unpopular choice
The Orb – Metallic Spheres (Sony) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, and find that for the Orb and David Gilmour, the
Kings Of Leon – Come Around Sundown (RCA/Sony) CD Review
Gary Steel continues his belated catchment of 2010 releases he ought to have reviewed, and the latest Kings Of Leon simply must be dealt
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