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Artist:
Avenged Sevenfold
 More interesting music from AX7, 2010-09-02
AX7's previous self-titled release was a bit of an eye opener. Based on what I'd heard of their early work, I'd been expecting extremely heavy music with screaming vocals. I turned out to be a wonderfully complex and varied album with lots of great hooks.
Nightmare has some equally good hooks and is a very enjoyable listen. The Mike Portnoy influence is noticable in some songs (like Save Me) but he hasn't over-run the album. The music is technically complex and rich. The vocals have some screaming but, on the whole, there's more singing than screeching. The more I listen to the album, the more nuances I pick up and the more I like it.
If I had one minor gripe it is in the sequence of the songs. They could have done with mixing up the faster and slower songs to create the same varied feel they attained on the last album.
Well worth getting!
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Disturbed
Nothing new, but it's still brilliant, 2010-09-01
I first heard Disturbed with their debut album, when i was a young teen. I soon grew out of that scene, and forgot all about them.
Last year, i heard a newer song by them and quite liked it. They seem to have matured and moved away from their original sound which is great.
Aslyum is on a similar lines to their previous couple of albums...only continuing that trend of making slight changes (improvements to me). Becoming more along the lines of a traditional Heavy metal band with a catchy chorus, great riffs, some solos and mroe clean vocals.
This album has these elements in abundance, yet it is still very much Disturbed.
The vocals stand out as usual, although again i think they have improved a bit more on this release.
Some of my favorite tracks are: Warrior and The Animal, but every song has it's place and i can't pick out a weak moment.
As someone who has not been an avid follower of this band over the years, but who does own all their albums...this album will not dissapoint. I can't see how fans of their last 2 albums would dislike this.
If you're not a fan, and just want some good, solid heavy rock music with good lyrics, vocals, riffs and melodies ..yet sitll being rather heavy then this should be a good buy too.
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Artist:
The Union
The Union, 2010-08-26
WOW - I have always liked Luke Morleys work in Thunder and read a review in Classic Rock about his new band. I decided to buy the album because it had got such a great review. I really like this, it has a very bluesy feel about it and Peter Shoulders voice is amazing. Twelve out of ten!!!!!!
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Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends
Superb !!!, 2010-08-23
This CD is a must-have !!!
Bought it for my husband who is a fan and also took 2 copies over to France for my French brothers-in-law who loved the variety of music styles and , like us, the themes loaded with emotion.
Any one who love sea shanties will love this CD, once you start listening, you simply cannot stop listening, the music penetrates your very soul and leaves you wanting more.
This group of long-time friends from Cornwall have immense talent and we hope to be able to listen to them live one day on the beaches of Port-Isaac !
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Artist:
Laura Marling
Lovely Music, 2010-08-09
I first heard Laura Marling from her track - "Ghosts" - that was on the Mercury Music Prize sampler CD. I bought this album on the basis of enjoying that track and I have not been disappointed. Her style of music reminds me in parts of Beth Orton's music. As I said in the title "Lovely Music"!
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Artist:
I Am Kloot
Brilliant., 2010-08-31
My title says it all. As a newcomer to the band, I wasn't sure what to expect. What I've ended up with is a CD that hasn't been out of the player for a couple of weeks. Wonderful lyrical songs and a great production job form Elbow's Craig Potter and Guy Garvey. Buy now, enjoy forever.
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Artist:
Bombay Bicycle Club
The best album I have heard in ages,, 2010-08-29
Flaws
I heard ivy and gold on the radio and thought I must get that album,
Having done so it is one of the best albums I have heard in ages certainly the best album this year.
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Artist:
Various Artists
Epic Album, 2010-08-24
This is great CD for the car, when you don't want just one album but to listen mix of some of the best tunes ever. There are some great ones to sing along too and only a couple to skip. All in all a good buy.
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Artist:
Arcade Fire
How do the Arcade Fire follow-up not just one of the best debut albums ever, but possibly also one of the best indie albums of all time? Well, Neon Bible is a good place to start. After the success of Funeral, expectations were high for a follow up. But really, how could any band be expected to repeat that level of achievement twice in a row? And who can fault a band for setting their own standards so high? If there's one criticism of Neon Bible (named after author John Kennedy Toole's first novel), it's that it's not Funeral. But any other band would consider Neon Bible a towering achievement, for the simple reason that it is. "Keep the...
Superb album from an increasingly impressive Canadian band., 2008-07-26
I received this as a Christmas present from a friend and I have been listening to it since. After reading the sleeve notes in the accompanying booklet, I found that the album was recorded in, among other places like studios, a church in Quebec, Canada. The tunes are very catchy and you can't help but be taken in by the sleekness of the songs and the rhythmical beats.
I think that my favourite tracks on this album are 'No Cars Go', 'Intervention', 'Ocean of Noise' and 'Windowsill'. As far as this group are concerned, I am a late developer having this album as the only one of theirs I own. And I really think that this Canadian band are exceptionally good indeed. They seem to have a good knowledge of knowing how a really good album works and to me this album does work wonders.
I really love the song-writing and the arrangements throughout this exceptional album and they seem to have put a lot of time and effort into this project. I think that this group are seriously underrated and deserve to be listened to. I thoroughly recommend this album.
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Artist:
Hurts
First NEW band I have taken any notice of for so long..., 2010-08-04
I have only heard 3 songs from this band (Wonderful Life, Blood, Tears and Gold and Better Than Love), but I am confident in giving this new album a top rating before I have heard it all because the said songs are very very strong indeed. For so long, we have had to deal with a decline in the quality of music with so much poor quality and forgettable garbage passing as pop, not to mention melody free rap and hip hop, but when I heard these tracks after a chance discovery of a small but favourable review of the band a while ago, I knew this was different. The quality and intricacy of each song really stands out with all sorts of noises and nuances in the mix (particularly Better Than Love) and there is a lovely mix of clear vocals!, guitar and ofcourse the ever wonderful, soul piercing synth that was used so effectively in the most interesting and wonderful period of British pop music, New Wave, which dominated in the early to mid 1980s. I was too young to experience this movement as I was born in 1982, but I have a collection built around Ultravox, OMD, PSB, Talk Talk, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode etc as this is the music I love and there is something of all of these in Hurts. It is refreshing to hear the synth back after so many indie 3 chord boys (yawn) as synth/keyboard music can be so melodic and this is important to me as a listener. The lyrics are also good so a big bonus. It is refreshing to see well groomed, well dressed men in the band after so many years of 'lad rock', and the avoidance of the tacky use of sex as part of a bands image. This band, while clearly influenced by the 1980s Brit New Wave movement, very much carry their own sound:modern electronic jazzy pop, stylish vocals and layered production with soaring, catchy choruses which are both sad and uplifting at once. The three songs also have incredibly catchy choruses which leaves the sound in your head even after the first listen.
If I had to describe the band based on the sounds of other electro bands from the past, I would say they have the vocal sound of Depeche Mode, with the melodies of OMD and PSB, the production and vibe of Zero 7 or Air, set against pulsating modern beats with chord changes and keyboard parts which pull at the emotions. Like I say though, Hurts very much make their own distinct sound, and having just heard Silver Lining, there may be more to their sound than great singles alone.
I am fairly sure the rest of the album will be very good and people should notice this very interesting and moving sound and hopefully buy the album, I certainly will!
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