Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Lukas Clark-Memler
Basement Jaxx, the genre-fusing South Londoners, have been making bona fide party music since the beginning of the millennium. Yet as 2009 comes to an end, and we bid adieu to this decade, it seems rather probable that in turn we are also saying farewell to the Basement Jaxx [...]
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue
‘Uprising,’ the first single off Muse’s new album, The Resistence, is a fun and upbeat pop number that is unfortunately unrivaled over the remainder of the album. Despite that, the band’s songwriting does maintain a level of consistency that holds true throughout.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell
The problem with reviewing an album like Imogen Heap’s Ellipse is that it requires optimal listening conditions for its stereophonic production to be rendered adequately. The filmic quality of her music just begs for one of those cinema-ready five speaker setups.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell
The Starlight Mints are one of a handful of bands from the bible belt that continually pokes their listeners in the eye with audacious indie pop. On their previous release, 2006’s Drowaton, the Mints unleashed their fun-house like antics in what would be described as restrained, compared to their [...]
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Lukas Clark-Memler
Discovery is a musical collaboration of two very different artists; a duo that in most other cases would likely remain unsigned and unheard of.
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Trent McMartin
Infectious disco beats provided by the former Controller Controller rhythm section coupled with strong vocals from singer Vanessa Fischer, formerly of No Dynamics, give little delight in this sub-average debut EP
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Garth Paulson
The Sound of Animals Fighting aren’t the first band to mix the beautiful with the destructive, but they’re one of the most effective. The multi-headed, collective beast has a true knack for toying with listeners’ expectations
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Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Louis Ducharme
The Pinker Tones’ latest album, Wild Animals, is weird, but starts off promisingly enough with ‘Hold On,’ a decent dance-pop track with some chorus singing flourishes.
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