Bloc Party - Intimacy

Coming just over two weeks since the release of the album, you may wonder why it took so long to review this album. Due to the difficulty in actually putting the confusion that this album caused in to words, about 6 reviews have failed to be completed. Ironically, the day we publish this we received two reviews at the same time. These follow, with the first by Scribbler-virgin James Preece and the second by regular writer Mark Gibbs. Read more

Sennen - Where The Light Gets In

Sennen are, apparently, the “Kings of the Nu-Gaze scene” (according to their website, anyway), which gives copious clues as to what one should expect from this, their second LP, following on from 2005’s Widows. Previously big Mogwai fans, the Norfolk four-piece at some point decided their music destiny was to write proper songs, including lyrics and everything, with just the one track of noise, Sennen Enjoy Life (reminiscent of a certain Mogwai Fear Satan, or is that just me?), and some guitar effects the survivors of their first love. Read more

Damien Rice - Live From Union Chapel

Damien Rice has always had a habit of dividing the masses when it comes to his music. On the one hand there are those who find his melodramatic yet ambiguous wailings about how awful a person he is over a backing of acousticy folk formulaic and tiresome, but then there are also those (those who I personally like to refer to as “winners”) who think his eerie timbres and melancholic lyrics are just a bit beautiful. Read more

Jack’s Mannequin - The Glass Passenger

Andrew McMahon has what is quite possibly the most irritatingly vulnerable voice in popular music. This is his second album under the Jack’s Mannequin moniker, 5 years after what would now appear to be an amicable setting aside of his previous project, Something Corporate. Read more

Temposhark - Blame

Temposhark release Blame from their debut album ‘The Invisible Line’, surrounding much hype that has been generated by the song’s video which recently won the SXSW 2008 Click Festival music video category ‘Sound Checks’. Read more

Olympus Mons - Nothing’s gonna spoil my day today

With a name like “Olympus Mons”, you’d be forgiven for expecting some sort of epic, spaced out rock; or maybe some form of titanic metal with squealing guitars a plenty… but if you did, you’d be mightily disappointed by what you find inside their debut album. Read more

Blakfish - I’ll See You In Another City

Birmingham’s Big Scary Monsters signed Blakfish have been making loud noises together in some shape or form for almost 10 years now (and they’re still just in their twenties) but you’d never guess from this mini-album. Read more

Future of the Left, Fighting with Wire, 20/08/08, London Monto Water Rats

Monto Water Rats is nothing like the vermin-infested dive its name suggests; the 200 or so capacity venue is more akin to a miniature country-mansion theatre than a rickety old barge, with chandeliers strung low throughout the room and those big emulsion-white archaic pillars either side of the stage. Read more

The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Trading Things In EP

The Updated Cool Rule List 2008

Rule #1: Must be in a band. All the cool guys are in bands, man! Read more

Vessels: White Fields And Open Devices

All of this Olympic talk; imagine if you will that there was some form of new music Read more

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