Goldfrapp’s ‘We Are Glitter’ is interesting as much for the style of remixing that has been undertaken as much as the end result. Listening to the remixes done on the Goldfrapp originals generally seem to be done in a lo-fi retro electro way. Where remixes used to be the vocals looped over a new track [...]

Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ has always been considered the best solo album from the any of The Beatles after their break-up. That may be, but I personally think it shows that McCartney and Lennon, while not always the best of friends, could not be topped as songwriters. Don’t get me wrong…’Imagine’ does have some classics. ‘Jealous Guy’ [...]

The Postal Service features the vocals of Ben Gibbard from ‘Death Cab For Cutie’ as well synth compositions from ‘Dntel’s Jimmy Tamborello (never heard of them). Kicking off with the catchy ‘The District Sleeps Tonight’ and following with ‘Such Great Heights’, the voice is easy to place, but the music is some way from what [...]

‘The Tea Party’ seem to be a popular band…with anyone who has actually heard them at least. Everyone who has heard them seems to absolutely love them. They seem to be unique mid-90′s rockers. Firstly, they are Canadian. Secondly, they experiment with a heap of instruments (‘Inanna’ which I am listening to now has some [...]

English band Elbow’s sophomore album could be confused for another collection of songs by one of the many self-loathing, introspective british bands using a piano (Coldplay, Keane et al). Though their music shares a lot of similarities, there are many aspects of ‘A Cast Of Thousands’ that sets them aside from their contemporaries above. Their [...]

1989′s ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ has managed to make it’s way through the years to my ears in 2006 with very little aging being apparent. In fact, if someone told me it was done be a new band trying to capture a retro industrial sound I’d be fooled. This album was not garnered with glowing praises [...]

Joy Division were before my time musically. The little I know about them I learnt from ’24 Hour Party People’, which, being a fictional account of the band’s life (amongst other things) cannot be trusted. Actually, going from ’24 Hour Party People’ I can’t say I was impressed. The raw, flat, dry English punk thing [...]

Jay-Z is a MC that I have never heard much of. What I have heard (“Hard Knock Life”, “Dirt of my Shoulder”) I have really dug. I was a bit put off with his little feud with Nas, as well as the tag as ‘Greatest MC of All Time’ bestowed on him (where he wouldn’t [...]