It’s very, very easy to be sucked in by hype. Teen Dream, the third album by Baltimore duo Beach House was released nearly a couple of months ago and has received many plaudits from critics and is hailed as one of the best albums of the year thus far. They are the current flavour of [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by Max
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Mirror Mirror is an album by The Irrepressibles that will startle and surprise a lot of people, but for me, it’s also one of the year’s best albums so far.
The Irrepressibles themselves are a ten-piece unit that aren’t so much a band but more of a mini-orchestral ensemble, lead by Jamie McDermott, who not only [...]

Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Max
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The world of pop music, which is ever-changing in trends and fashions every hour of every day it seems, is an incredibly fickle one. For one thing, there is the injustice of a songwriter who tries so long to break into the upper echelons,deserves to in fact, and is unrelenting in his/her attempt to breakthrough. [...]

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Max
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Marina Diamandis, aka Marina And The Diamonds and part-Welsh/part-Greek, is definitely a person who quite likes to mix honest and blunt songwriting with pop music that is just a bit OTT and a bit dramatic in nature. That is what brings us to The Family Jewels, her debut LP following a string of successful EPs [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Max
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Yeasayer’s second LP, Odd Blood, might be better re-named as Odd Pop, as it is a lot more inventive and daring than anything else you’re likely to hear in the charts.
Fans of the New York outfit’s debut album, All Hour Cymbals, might find this new change of direction from wall of sound to clear pop [...]

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Max
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