I don't know much about this singer and band. Its a quirky mixture of sonically interesting experimentation and big big choruses. Its mainly guitar and percussion driven but brings in plenty of organ and some Cello to keep things off the beaten track. 'Capital state' is a slightly paranoid ball of...

A punk rock examination of a schizophrenic serial killer in 15 parts.    I won't stop until your dead cause of the voices inside my head helping you and hurting me Time will heal all wounds but I will kill you ...

My Bloody Valentine started life off in London as a slightly fey indie band typically associated with the London indie scene at the time, NME etc. In 1988 they released 'Isn't anything' on creation Records. This was a huge step forward into noise rock and the scene which was later to...

What do you do after you've been in the seminal punk band and have been in the headlines of every newspaper and magazine in the land. You do pretty much whatever the hell you want. Johnny Lydon formed the post punk Public Image Limited and released this, their second an best...

So for the past couple of years every so often I've heard the Razorlight name mentioned on the radio. I've always been interested in the songs. 'The girl with the golden touch', 'In the morning' and 'America'. Last weekend I went out and bought their two albums. The first has...

A short and punchy pop classic presented on a nice thick piece of wax.

Spirit of Eden is one of those legendary albums. A complete change from their beginnings as Duran Duran contemporaries, about as far removed from standard rock/pop releases as you can get. Holed up in an abandoned church for 14 months their label were shocked with what emerged. The public were...

Around 1993 vinyl sales had reached their nadir. Sales had plummeted as cassettes and now CDs had surpassed in sales and seemingly noone was buying records anymore. Apart from DJs and some weird class of being called an audiophile. Island recognised all of the above. In what looks like a cost...