It is hard to categorise the sound of The Besnard Lakes, as just when you think you have defined it, everything changes.
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While certainly alternatively geared, Love Of Diagrams demonstrate a gorgeous ear for song.
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Shara Worden’s incarnation, My Brightest Diamond, offers a great deal.
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These quaint Canadians have delivered an album that is extremely diverse.
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Neon Bible is a labyrinth – full of dark corners and intricate detail.
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Arcade Fire are the most dramatic band going around.
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Bands who set themselves a standard of brilliance shouldn’t settle for anything less.
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Neon Bible is unsettling in its inaccuracy, and yet so glorious to listen to and pick apart that it almost seems intentional.
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Neon Bible is dark and brooding, but that is how it is meant to sound.
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The sound of Art Of Fighting is, at best, one of slow, heart wrenching beauty.
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Castanets have produced an album that leaves me confused: at times I want to relax, at other times, in frustration, I reach for objects to hurl at my stereo.
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The Ruby Suns, both instrumentally and vocally, are the closest modern match to the sonic-awe that was the Beach Boys.
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