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Girls Aloud
The album title, Out of Control, is of course a misnomer-- if there is a more in control, empowered, dominant and disciplined pop tour-de-force out there, then Girls Aloud must still be sassier and brassier and a whole lot noisier, because we're not noticing anyone else. And this is also possibly the most restrained, or at least sleek and refined, collection of songs from the Girls yet. There are a couple of deeply pulsating off-the-peg club floor-fillers in "Turn to Stone" and "The Loving Kind" that embody an out-of-body hedonism, poised retro pastiches like the gliding and punchy "The Promise" and sassy rhythmic "Love Is the Key", then up-tempo 80s-flavoured ball...
 Im in love! , 2008-12-29
I've always just liked the odd song of these girls and never bought an album until now...am totally in love with it!! every song! If i had to name my 3 faves they would be The Loving Kind, Turn to Stone and Untouchable...all i can say is WOW!!!
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Kings Of Leon
Already on course to be one of the year's biggest sellers, Only By the Night has sealed Kings of Leon's unlikely position as Britain's favourite American rock band. The Followill brothers (and cousin) have always been tagged as part of a southern rock tradition of family bands such as the Allmans and Lynyrd Skynyrd, a label they vehemently refuted. But the skinny lads certainly looked like a classic rock act, even as they took musical inspiration from indie contemporaries The Strokes and eighties new wave acts such as The Cure and New Order. Only By the Night is effectively a sequel to 2006's terrific Because of the Times, their third record and the f...
brilliant, 2009-01-01
ths is a beautiful album- who cares what their previous stuff is like- this is THIS album- i love it - its a beautiful collection of great guitar melodies and words. calebs voice is honey and they music is bliss to go with it.really ace.
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Seal
Soul is a confusing beast. We know Seal has a great voice and can easily imagine him being covering golden oldies with aplomb. Yet this collection of soul favourites is frustratingly patchy. Opener "A Change Is Gonna Come" is impassioned and beautifully-arranged (the album is helmed by David Foster of Celebrity Duets fame, who has made sure it sounds fresh and compelling), and even though it could never compare to Sam Cooke's original, it's ultimately a successful reworking. Seal applies his sandpapery tones to James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", Al Green's "Here I Am" and "I'm Still in Love With You", and Ben E King's "Stand By Me"--all of them ...
Knock Out!, 2009-01-04
I heard some tracks on Steve Wright and then again in HMV a day later. Knock on Wood is just knock out! I Can't Stand The Rain is fantastic, in fact no track is weak they are all brilliant, so buy it guys!!!
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Elbow
There are few things in life quite so liberating as the opening track on an Elbow album--they're like airlocks between the plainness of the outside world and the elaborate melancholic heave-ho that you are likely about to submerge yourself in. Following predecessors "Any Day Now", "Ribcage" and "Station Approach", "Starlings" opens their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid rising from a bed of tumbling electronic subtlety like a depressed Atari game loading up, adding bare touches of piano, glimpses of ambient guitar, out of body background vocals, an understated pulse and a wisp of strings, before--EXCELSIS!--a fanfare avalanche of horns crashes the gate and elevates...
Excellent! - Sounds good too..., 2008-12-27
I've only just got to hear of this band and like others who've shared their views, I really appreciate the diverse and thoughtful music on this CD and look forward to getting to know it better over the coming months.
The other thing that sets this CD apart is the great sound quality on offer. In my view, so much modern music is ruined by the over-loud, yet anodyne production which saps the music of all emotion and dynamics, making it all sound the same from track to track. I tend to replace the discs in the rack with a yawn and there they stay. Not this CD, which makes me want to play it more, to discover more in the music on offer.
PLEASE give this disc a go. You'll be very pleasantly surprised I guarantee. I hope that future recordings of Elbow's will be at least as well produced too. The music is so much easier to hear and "feel!"
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Duffy
Rockferry, the Welsh singer's lovingly constructed debut album, has already succeeded beyond expectations, and although Duffy may not quite be the ingénue portrayed by a clever press campaign (she nearly won a local television talent show a few years back while a single credited to Aimee Duffy is still available on iTunes) she is surely the most appealing of the current flood of young soul sirens. The astonishing title track, co-written by Bernard Butler, sounded like a lost transmission that had taken decades to get through as soon as it hit radio last year. But the gently rolling soul ballad "Stepping Stone", that strapping, inescapable monster hit "Mercy", the ...
60s Revisited, 2008-12-27
Fantastic album really hits the spot,as a "child of the 60s" myself I can identify with this music, buy it,you won't be disappointed.
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Snow Patrol
The Snow Patrol we meet on A Hundred Million Suns is a band facing the same dilemma that Coldplay met on 2008's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends; having conquered the world with a rousing, melancholy brand of MOR indie, where now? On the surface, A Hundred Million Suns seems to suggest, nowhere especially new: producer Jacknife Lee, who first worked with the band on 2003's Final Straw and went on to work with the likes of U2 and REM returns to the fold; and an opening brace of songs suggest that a successful formula--chiming guitars, gentle builds, and Gary Lightbody's quavering, tremulous vocal--persists. Still, "Take Back The City", ...
10/10 to Amazon, 2008-12-07
The review say it all; a really great Album. However, what I would like to say is well done Amazon. I for one hate the pretentious rubbish written about Apple and in particular their hateful I-Tunes. I don't have an iPOD although respect their design. I have a Zen which I love and now my wife and both the kids have one too. Amazon have opened up the market and with these £3.00 downloads, only those with anal retention are still going to regularly illegally download. At last someone has realised that charging £8-£10 for a download is taking the rip. If you keep the downloads down to a reasonable price then we will pay. Don't let us down Amazon!
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Various Artists
How can you be disappointed?, 2008-12-26
The NOW CD's have something for everybody in our family. It amazes me that people write negative reviews about something that delivers a cross section of the latest popular songs at a excellent pence per track price. Yes, there is no human being alive who could like every track on a compilation as diverse as this. But if you buy chart music you will find loads of tracks you like here.
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The Priests
Vocal Perfection, 2008-12-22
This is one of the most uplifting experiences you could wish for. The beautiful vocals starting with Ave Maria, Mit wurd und hohet angetan and Panis Angelicus. These would move anybody who has an appreciation of music.
These are followed by more subdued and gentle recordings. Then by the wonderfully lilting and soaring Hacia Belen. With the glorious choral accompaniment, it just combines to make this entire recording an absolute delight. I cannot stop playing it
This is one of the best C.D's I have heard in a long time. One word sums it all up. Excellent.
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The Killers
Success came fast for The Killers, maybe too fast. The impossibly hooky “Mr Brightside” from their debut, coupled with faultless synth anthem “Somebody Told Me”, turned them into the most ubiquitous band in the world overnight and had them batting away Glastonbury headline offers before the Hot Fuss campaign was even over. Sam's Town followed all too quickly, trying to stylistically catch up with their status as stadium rock giants in waiting, but like their debut was really only carried by a couple of strong singles. Which would make this the perfect--or necessary--time to deliver the masterpiece the world expects. By shamelessly...
How The Killers Have Grown, 2009-01-04
The first thing I will say about this album is that you have to give it 3 or 4 listens before you can really appreciate how good it is. When I first listened to it I thought I might be disapointed as none of the tracks seemed to stand out to me as they had done instantly on Hot Fuss and Sam's Town.
However after hearing it a few times I can say that this is without a doubt The Killers best album yet - and that is saying something.
What is new in this album is that a lot of the songs are written about the personal lives of members of the band. For example "A Dustland Fairytale" which tells the story of how Brandon Flowers' parent's met and his mother's battle with cancer.
This makes the album very full of emotion which is something that The Killers havn't really done before, and they have pulled it off brilliantly. The Singles "Human" and "Spaceman" are both very good tracks, more in the style of earlier Killers work. But the true beauty of this album is, as I said, in the slower, more emotional tracks. My personal favorite is probably "A Dustland Fairytale". I also really like "The World We Live In" and "I Can't Stay".
If you are a fan of the Killers then no doubt you will already have bought this album. If not then I would strongly recommend it as there is something on here for everyone.
One Final Point: The Track "Goodnight, Travel Well" is truly breathtaking. It was written about the death of Dave Keunig's mother and it really captures the emotions of anyone who has lost a loved one. The Album is worth it just to hear this song. You won't regret getting this Album.
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Take That
Better Than Beautiful World album, 2009-01-04
Take That's "Beautiful World" was really a great singles album, this is just a great album with a lot less obvious singles.
Beautiful world was by no means a bad album, but some tracks sounded pretty run of the mill (aint no sense in love, like we never loved at all). Tracks like Patience, Shine, Reach Out and Beautiful World were stellar songs of course.
This time, the guys have really out done themselves.
Lead single Greatest Day continues the big orchestral rock ballad sound that Rule The World offered and this sound influences this album mostly. Tracks like You, Here, The Garden, Said It All have that epic-big-ballad-with-sweeping-strings sound.
There are still Beatles-esque attempts like Shine this time too (Hello, Julie, Up All Night are similar in ways but not blatant rip offs of shine thankfully),
All in all, the guys deserve the success they are having..... this is a strong follow up to Beautiful World.....
Stand -outs for me:
Hello, You, Here, Greatest Day, How Did It Come To This, The Garden, and the gorgeous ballad The Circus.
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