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Track Reviews: 9-15 July 2012

by Tim Lee

This week’s tracks are brought to you by an anagram of some of their titles: “O, you don’t spear Fiat now, twee Tories. They kill,…



Track Reviews: 2-8 July 2012

by Tim Lee

It’s been quite a weekend. The Stone Roses returned home to play a muddy field in Stockport for three nights. Lauryn Hill is going to...

Track Reviews: 25 June – 1 July 2012

by Tim Lee

Seven tracks. Seven artists. More than seven minutes of music. Go. Cat Power – RuinRuin is, believe it or not, Chan Marshall’s first brand new...

Track Reviews: 18-24 June 2012

by Tim Lee

People say schadenfreude like it’s a bad thing. But when Pendulum announce that they’re splitting up, you can prod the people and ask, really? Really?...

Track Reviews: 11-17 June 2012

by Tim Lee

Its begun. Between bouts of torrential rain, the sun has cast its withering, ageing rays into our squinting, gurning faces; assorted folk have gradually exposed...

Track Reviews: 4-10 June 2012

by Tim Lee

As you’ve no doubt seen, we love a themed column. So this week there was an obvious and predictable way that we could go. That...

Field Day Special – Track Reviews: 28 May...

by Tim Lee

The Great British Summer has just about wheezed into life. No doubt you’ve already scorched a silhouette of your sandal straps onto your beet-red feet,...

Track Reviews: 21-27 May 2012

by Tim Lee

This week, there will be no introduction. None. We’d feel awful about keeping you from tasting the treats contained within this column. We’re loathe to...

Track Reviews: 14-20 May 2012

by Tim Lee

Do you know what Grimes, Ben Folds Five, Animal Collective and Neneh Cherry have in common? Did the artwork for their last album give us...

The Great Escape Special
Track Reviews: 7-13...

by Tim Lee

If you go down to Brighton this weekend, you’re sure of a big surprise. If you go down to Brighton this weekend, you better go...

Track Reviews: 30 April – 6 May 2012

by Tim Lee

We weren’t taken hostage last week. Our office furniture was not thrown from the windows (a contingency we cleverly planned for by virtue of not...

Track Reviews: 23-29 April 2012

by Tim Lee

This week Jessie Ware drives a car slowly, Graham Coxon’s solo output gives us pause for thought and the Scissor Sisters make gelding seem like...

Record Store Day Special:
Track Reviews 16-2...

by Tim Lee

21st April 2012 is Record Store Day. The fourth annual Record Store Day, to be exact; the day when all manner of exclusive new tracks,...

Track Reviews: 9-15 April 2012

by Tim Lee

If we were to shoehorn the music industry into a clumsy Easter Bunny metaphor, we’d expound on how we’re sent Easter eggs every day of...

Track Reviews: 2-8 April 2012

by Tim Lee

Our distinct lack of military training really showed this week. When track after track sprang up like training dummies in a war movie montage, our...

Track Reviews: 26 March – 1 April 2012

by Tim Lee

Integrity? In a politician? Don’t be daft. If you’re after integrity, don’t go looking for it there. Look for it here. We ain’t for sale....

Track Reviews: 19-25 March 2012

by Tim Lee

We’re often told* that we’re an awful lot like The Boss. His keynote speech at SXSW this week – an eloquent, heartfelt and poetic love...