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Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster

“lady gaga is a critically acclaimed, rilke-quoting, tisch school of the arts-educated performance artist who’s made music that is meant to sound like ace of base...”; release – 2010

More / (08.03.10)

Quasi – American Gong (Domino)

“what really sets this above a straight up punk rock album is the lyrical magic of coomes, who has evolved over the years into a sort of punk rock robert lowell...”; release - 2010

More / (05.03.10)

Lightspeed Champion – Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You (Domino)

“Hynes' voice is pitched in a bizarre middle ground somewhere between the puny nasal whine of David Tattersall, frontman of none-more-indie bed-sit languishers The Wave Pictures, and Croydon soul man David Mcalmont...”; release – 2010

More / (04.03.10)

Owl City – Ocean Eyes (Island)

ocean eyes has seemingly come from nowhere, and is so eager to please you want to push it away after the first song before it slobbers on your trousers...”; release - 2010

More / (04.03.10)

Blood Red Shoes – Fire Like This (V2)

“a rallying defiant teenage tantrum that seems to celebrate the notion that it has ever had the chance to be created, committed to tape and fizzle across your eardrums...”; release – 2010

More / (03.03.10)

Sade – Soldier of Love (Sony)

“when I say this album is good, i really mean it. it’s as good as an album has to be to distance itself from all the horrible mum-and-dad-sex connotations that force their way kicking and screaming into my mind whenever i hear sade adu’s voice...”; release – 2010

More / (03.03.10)

Massive Attack – Heligoland (Virgin)

“yes, their sound is ambient enough to hum away under the clink of middle class, middle aged wine glasses but to suggest their masterpieces are mere background noise is to miss the point entirely...”; release – 2010

More / (19.02.10)

Built To Spill – There Is No Enemy (Warner)

“whilst built to spill's seventh album of diffuse, drawn-out dream-pop won't alter their standing in u.s. alt-rock's peripheries, the stock of younger bands they've directly influenced have never been quite so high...”; release - 2010

More / (19.02.10)

Swanton Bombs – Mumbo Jumbo and Murder (Turnstile)

“about as raw as you can get without having these two play directly in your living room...”; release – 2010

More / (18.02.10)

Wive – PVLL (Exile On Mainstream)

pvll contains 9 overlong tracks that meander without actually going anywhere – but with the exception of one amazing song in the middle (we'll come to that) which is almost worth the cost of this record in itself...”; release - 2010

More / (17.02.10)

Various – Pop Ambient 2010 (Kompakt)

the sound of a lone brass player lost from the pack whose throat has been slit; spraying blood across the landscape while his windpipes are teased into sound by the wind....”; release - 2010

More / (16.02.10)

Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here (XL)

“with a few nuggets of wisdom in the brief skits that pepper the record, you’re left with a sense of epitaph to this album – both expanding on his legend and, as with edison’s original intentions for recorded sound, leaving messages from the past for future generations to learn from, in this case for better and worse, from all of the compounds that make up the pieces of this unique man...”; release – 2010

More / (10.02.10)