This self titled album does have shades of rock intensity about it in its rawly rendered guitar sounds, but its most notable quality is its quiet, subtle and sombre nature.
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Spank the Chemical Christians seem something of an enigma if you attempt to do any research on them. Well, maybe they just aren’t that kind of an artist. In fact, what can be said is that the person behind the weird name is singularly Donal McGuinness who apparently works somewhere in Dublin. On a laptop. [...]
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With The Academy steadily filling up, and the crowd anitcipating the arrival Marina and the Diamonds, Dublin based artist Valerie Francis takes to the stage as the support act for tonight, a lone figure armed only with an accoustic guitar.
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Whilst Lily Allen blogs against illegal filesharing, the UK government propose legislation to prosecute offenders, and the debate cranks itself up a notch or two, Doctor Leaves are kind enough to provide us with a download that comes both free of charge and free of guilt. By doing so, they also highlight one of the [...]
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Here’s an album that seems to be striving to become the sonic definition of “niceness”. And let’s face it, there is nothing essentially wrong with niceness. After all, a nice summer once in a while wouldn’t be too much to ask for, and what could be nicer than a nice cup of tea with your [...]
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Way, way back in 1997, before Britpop had completely pranced its way into oblivion. Before Travis had led to Coldplay, who have since led to almost a decade of soggy indie, Radiohead gave us the sharp and complex beauty of Ok Computer. Their third album following on from 1995’s The Bends. It was received with much [...]
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