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          MUSIC REVIEW INDEX 2008 - 2010

DEN:

July E.P reviews

  •  The Stock
  • The Portlands
  • Chaos Theory
  • Secret Circuit

June is Bustin out all over

  • Karen Elson - 'The Ghost Who Walks'
  • The Refreshers - 'Life' ep
  • Babyhead - 'Heavyweather' preview ep (Rockers Revolt)
  • Bustin' Out 1982: 'New wave to New Beat vol 2' (Year Zero/Future Noise)

Last days of May round up.

  • Kelis - Flesh Tone (album)
  • Serena Maneesh - Abyss in B Minor (4AD)
  • Band of Holy Joy - Paramour (album - out very soon)
  • Coral -Butterfly House - free download from Coral's site
  • Coral - 1000 Years - download single, usual sources
  • Delphic - Counterpoint
  • Ellie Goulding - Guns & Horses
  • Alphabeat - Hey Mr DJ
  • Mondkopf - Galaxy of Nowhere

Another April review

  • Dead Young Club II
  • Pete Bentham & the Dinner Ladies
  • Plan B
  • 'Deutsche Elektronische Musik:Experimental German Rock & Electronic Music 1972-83'
  • The Roseville Band

April round up:

  • Bitter Springs - My Life as a Dog in a Pigsty/ The Hospital Run
  • Rude Mechanicals - The Cyclops & the Wildebeest
  • Patches'n'Gretchen - Music from Little Big Pink.

DICK:

July:

July's bumper reviews include the following bands:
  • Thee Attacks
  • Thee Oh Sees
  • The Dead Weather
  • The White Stripes
  • Veronica Falls
  • The Fourtune-Tellers
  • Killing Joke
  • The Revellions
  • Armedalite Rifles
  • The Raconteurs
  • The Fresh & Onlys
  • Alba Lua
  • Warpaint
  • Johny Dey
  • Kiria
  • Silent Front

May:

  • The Len Price 3: Pictures
  • The Fall: Your Future Our Clutter
  • The Wind-Up Birds: Tyre Fire/There Won’t Always Be an England
  • March of Anger: March of Anger
  • The Vermin Poets: Poets of England
  • Gloria Cycles: Religious
  • Bilge Pump: The Fucking Cunts Still Treat Us Like Pricks
  • Toxic Poison: The Beast Is Back
  • Spin, Spin The Dogs: Leave Me In Leicester
  • Existers: Depreciation.

March:

  • Dum Dum Girls - 'I Will Be'
  • Koko Dozo - 'Feel The Zuzz'
  • The Glitterati - 'Are You One Of Us?'
  • The Service Industry - 'Calm Down'
  • Sir Lord Von Raven - 'Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean'
  • Snowbyrd - 'Diosdado'
  • One English Pound - 'ole Model/March of the Toytown Express'
  • Batusis - 'Batusis'
  • Patches and Gretchen -'Sugar Head Pie'
  • Vivian Girls -'My Love Will Follow Me/He’s Gone'
  • Cute Lepers - 'Smart Accessories'

CHINNERS:

Hot Summer reviews:
  • Black Sonic
  • Detroit Social Club
  • The Mission
  • The Gaslight Anthem
  • The Longest Day
  • Killing For Company
  • Die So Fluid - 'The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime
  • Exit State - 'Death Of A Rockstar'- The No-Ones 'Alcoholiday'.

MYSTERY FLAME: Mexicolas 'Minerva Suite'

LEE:

DAN: January Reviews.

  • Delphic – 'Acolyte'
  • Lostprophets -'The Betrayed'
  • Them  Crooked Vultures - 'Them Crooked Vultures'
  • Vampire Weekend - 'Contra'

ENCOULE: Only Divine Love Bestows The Keys Of Knowledge

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  2009 - Reviews

 ENCOULE:

UN COEUR EN HIVER - An overview of the last 12-months

  • Corrupted - ‘El Mundo Frio’
  • Thou - ‘Tyrant’& ‘Peasant’
  • Thorr’s Hammer - ‘Dommedagsnatt‘
  • Blue Sabbath Black Cheer -‘Dead Death, Death Dead’
  • Beneath Oblivion - ‘One Year of Deprivation/No Man or Deity’
  • V/A - Swedish Death Metal
  • V/A - Grind Madness At The BBC
  • Black Breath - 'Razor To Oblivion'
  • Eagle Twin - 'The Unkindness Of Crows'
  • Habsyl - 'MMVIII'
  • Amocoma - 'Go To Hell'
  • Black Cobra - 'Chronomega'

Shrinebuilder - 'Shrinebuilder'

L'ETE EST MORT: No holds barred reviews!

  • Electric Assembly - White Splinter EP
  • Teleseen - ‘Fear Of The Forest
  • Dead Silence Syndicate - ‘100 Gig Hard Drive
  • Los Salvadores - ‘Wasps, Birds & Clients’
  • Three Trapped Tigers - ‘EP2’
  • Bats - ‘Red In Tooth & Claw’
  • The Light Streams - ‘The Lost EP’
  • HORSE the band - ‘Desperate Living’
  • Thrice - ‘Beggars’
  • Pythia - ‘Sarah’
  • Omega Lithium - ‘Dreams In Formaline’
  • Emil Bulls -‘Phoenix
  • Eisheilig - ‘Imperium”
  • Thom Stone - ‘Heart & Bones’
  • Four Year Strong - ‘Explains It All’
  • August Burns Red - ‘Constellations’
  • Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences - ‘I’ve Had My Fun’
  • Aimee Newsome-Stone - ‘Spacemen & Monsters’
  • Twin Falls - ‘We Will Begin To Flicker’
  • Blakfish - ‘Champions
JUNE - HE WAS BUT AS THE CUCKOO IS IN JUNE, HEARD, BUT NOT REGARDED
  • The 13th Floor Elevators - Sign Of The Three Eyed Men
  • White Denim - Fits
  • Troum - Eald-Ge-Streon 
  • That Fucking Tank - Tanknology 
  • Blacklisters - Swords
  • Jonny Cola & The A-Grades - The Yellow Mini
MAY - WHAT POTENT BLOOD HATH MODEST MAY?
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid
  • Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
  • My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
  • Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
MARCH - ENCOULE'S IDES OF MARCH
  • Mastodon - Crack The Skye
  • Wolves In The Throne Room - ‘Black Cascade
  • Wormsblood - ‘In The Stars
  • Lamb Of God’s - ‘Wrath
  • Misery Speaks - ‘Disciples Of Doom’
  • Grantig ‘Medizin’
  • Akrea -‘Lebenslinie’
  • Papier Tigre - The Beginning And End Of Now
  • Hey! Tonal - Hey! Tonal
  • Projekt A-KO - Yoyodyne
  • Passe Montagne’s - Oh My Satan for you!
  • Candythief - Technicolour Wilderness
  • Shortwave Fade - Delitia
  • Guns On The Roof -Shattered Feeling
  • Tracy Gang -'Pussy'
  • Mybe -The Calm Before The Storm
  • Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio - ‘Trahnie
  • ATOMtm - ‘Liedgut
  • Ethan Rose - ‘Oaks
  • Francisco Lopez & Lawrence English – ‘HB’

Hot Leg - ‘Red Light Fever’

ENCOULE'S NEW YEAR RESOLUTION ROUND UP

  • Andy Blade - ‘Life Affirming Songs For Those With A Bad Attitude’
  • Jeremy Gluck - Victim Of Dreams’
  • Magnetix - Positive Negative’
  • i H8 Camera - Volume 1’
  • Ania et le Programmeur - Die Kir(s)Che Auf Dem Kopf’
  • Black Eyed Dog - ‘Rhaianuledada (Songs To Sissy)

DEN:

DENS AUTUMN ROUND UP

  • The Slits - 'Trapped Animal'/ 'Cut' (2 cd reissues)/'Return of the Giant Killer Slits'
  • Malcolm Ross & the Low Miffs - 'The Low Riffs And Malcolm Ross'
  • Rew Starr - 'That's Rite'
  • Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic'
  • Bitter Springs - 'And Even Now'

The Cubical - ‘Come Sing These Crippled Tunes’

Band Of Holy Joy - 'A Lucky Thief In A Careless World'

BURIED TREASURE IN THE MIDLANDS PT 1

  • Au Pairs - Stepping Out Of Line' The Anthology
  • Perfect Unpop - ‘Peel show hits & long-lost lo-fi favourites, vol. 1 1976-80’

LEE:

Bitter Springs - ‘Even Now’

Vic Godard & Subway Sect - ‘Live In Stereo’

Illachime Quartet - ‘I’m Normal My Heart Still Works’

The Independent Piggies 1977 – 1982

Gertrude - ‘Speak, Shape, Create, Time’

LEE'S FEB ROUND UP

  • Sergeant Buzfuz - 'High Slang'
  • Magazine - 'Touch And Go' - Anthology

Buzzcocks Reissues - 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen'/ 'Love Bites'/'A Different Kind of Tension'

CHINNERS:

DICK:

THE NOUGHTIES  - Best of 2000 - 2009

  • Fever To Tell - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • Fatherfucker -Peaches
  • I Started Out With Nothin... - Seasick Steve
  • Sing Sing Death House - the Distillers
  • Osc-Dis - The Mad Capsule Markets
  • Chain Gang of Love - The Raveonettes
  • Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
  • No Wow - The Kills
  • Youth and Young Manhood - Kings of Leon
  • Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello
  • Veni Vidi Vicious -  The Hives
  • Punk Rock at The British Legion Hall - Billy Childish & the MBE’s
  • C’mon DJ - Mr. Airplane Man
  • Phoenix - The Warlocks
  • Fiends of Dope Island -The Cramps
  • Steady The Buffs - The Buff Medways
  • Down In Albion - Babyshambles
  • Peace, Love, Death Metal – The Eagles of Death Metal
  • Fall Heads Roll - The Fall
  • Up The Bracket - The Libertines

The Bermondsey Joyriders - 'The  Bermondsey Joyriders'

VARIOUS:

 

2008- Reviews from Jean Encoule


ENCOULE'S RETAIL ROUND UP FOR AUGUST

  • Errors - It’s Not Something But It Is Like Something Else’
  • The Hold Steady - ‘Stay Positive’
  • Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles’
  • Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago’
  • Airborne - ‘Runnin’ Wild’
  • Fleet Foxes - ‘Fleet Foxes’
  • Graham Parker - ‘The Vertigo Records Singles Collection’

Flower Travellin Band - 'Satori'

ENCOULES SEPT RETAIL ROUND UP

  • BORIS - ‘Smile’
  • Alexander Tucker - ‘Portal’
  • Paul Hawkins and Thee Awkward Silences - ‘We Are Not Other People’
  • Grails - ‘Doomsdayer’s Holiday
  • Trees - Lights Bane’
  • Wetdog - ‘Enterprise Reversal’
  • Aucan - S/T’
  • The Snake Of June - Blood Red Sun’ EP
  • Glasvegas - Glasvegas’
Cold Sun -‘Dark Shadows'

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MUSIC & BOOKS

Den's July E.P reviews

Dick's July selection

Chinners Hot Summer reviews

Television Personalities

June Is Bustin Out All Over by Den

Die So Fluid by Chinners

Mexicolas by Mystery Flame

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