Rick Pearson
It's all familiar stuff and Flo's rapping about girls'n'grills is the stuff of cliché.
5y
Proof that it's possible to have both quantity and quality.
5y
Outta this world? No. Slick, stylish pop music? Absolutely.
5y
This is the stuff of one-night stands rather than long-term romances.
5y
There's no world-conquering ballad like You're Beautiful, and no belated attempt to repackage Blunt as hip and cool. Instead, it's 35 minutes of well-crafted pop music and I see no trouble with that.
5y
It can sound like the sonic equivalent of trying to fit three meals on to one plate. For the most part, though, Everything Everything have served up a brave and brilliant debut.
4y
Those in search of arms-aloft anthems will leave feeling short-changed; the rest of us will agree that, in the case of The Suburbs, less is more.
5y
Whether Further secures The Chemical Brothers their sixth No 1 album is beside the point: this is as daring and vibrant as they've sounded in years.
5y
It's hard work, granted, but there's gold here if you're willing to dig.
5y
The departure of their leader sees the girl-group — Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen, if you're struggling to keep up — grasping for an identity on Sweet 7.
5y
It's not that Lights is a bad debut — there's plenty here to suggest Goulding is a worthy recipient of such attention — but it doesn't always dazzle in the way it might.
5y
The slow-burning nature of the songs means that mainstream popularity may remain elusive, but Beach House are certainly a secret worth knowing about.
3y
When a handsome Hollywood actor decides he also wants to be a rockstar, there's an understandable reluctance to do anything other than condescend — surely the lucky sod has enough already? So it is with great difficulty that I report the third album from Jared Leto and his band is not bad at all.
3y
Only Revolutions sees the band continue towards the mainstream.
3y
It doesn't all work but it is daring and, as with the Strokes, the overall sound is strong and distinct enough to override any concerns about its authenticity.
3y