I’m one happy bargain-hunter! Yesterday I popped into HMV to seek out the La Vie En Rose film soundtrack and to my shock found it priced at £16… But before I left (to ask my friend Mr Ebay) stopped at the counter to buy a very cheap DVD. I mentioned the price of the soundtrack [...]

Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Are You Experienced?”

For a while now I’ve been hoping that the real Alison Goldfrapp would be revealed on record following three albums displaying diverse styles. But perhaps with Alison that’s the whole point… Blessed with a quite extraordinary voice (that I’ve witnessed on stage on a couple of occasions) I’ve never really understood where she stands musically, [...]

Young Canadian twins Tegan and Sara Quin have been recording since 1999 and have released three albums, and a DVD prior to this latest release. Chris Walla, Death Cab For Cutie guitarist, has co-produced this album with the twins and has added a rock immediacy to the girls’ pop sound. The album was released in [...]

Cave has rightly earned the title of ‘most productive musician’ following last year’s studio and two film soundtrack album releases. And for Cave, quality has not been sacrificed for quantity. All three albums met with universal acclaim, and rightly so. With critical success comes an aggressive confidence that screams out from the tracks of this [...]

For me Crow is capable of writing some of the best folk rock songs around as well as some of the worst. Fortunately this new album has more winners than losers. Opener ‘God Bless This Mess’ is a stripped down, moving beauty that sounds as though it’s been recorded in the lady’s kitchen. A simple [...]