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Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You Released: 29 August 2011 Genre: Rock What do bands that are all about youthful exuberance do when they hit middle age? If they are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, they slide gratefully into their comfort zone and carry on churning out the [...]
Laura Marling – A Creature I Do Not Know
Laura Marling – A Creature I Do Not Know Released: 12 September 2011 Genre: Folk At the age of just 21, Laura Marling sounds terrifyingly wise beyond her years. Just a year after her formidable second album, I Speak Because I Can, its follow-up finds Marling once again shining a [...]
Little Dragon – Ritual Union
Little Dragon – Ritual Union Released: 25 July 2011 Genre: Pop Most people first became aware of Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano when she sang two tracks on GorillazÂ’ Plastic Beach album. She is unlikely to need such celebrity leg-ups much longer, as her Gothenburg-based band Little DragonÂ’s third album is [...]
Nero – Welcome Reality
Nero – Welcome Reality Released: 15 August 2011 Genre: Dance Chase & Status proteges Nero may be the rave-pop pupils who end up bettering their masters. The London drum & bass/dubstep duo of Daniel Stephens and Joe Ray are signed to the most established C&S’s label, and it shows. They [...]
Kasabian – Velociraptor!
Kasabian – Velociraptor! Released: 19 September 2011 Genre: Rock Kasabian have loudly proclaimed their fourth studio album to be a classic. This is no surprise: they always do. In fact, such mouthy boasting has often worked against them in the past, leading many to dismiss their cocky self-promotion as a [...]
Game – Welcome Reality
Game – Welcome Reality Released: 22 August 2011 Genre: Hip hop The Game has lost the definite article from his name but there is not much else missing from this album. The West Coast rapper born Jayceon Terrell Taylor took two years to make The R.E.D. Album and appears to [...]
