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Fleet Foxes

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Fleet Foxes

Release Date June 16, 2008
This album is unique. It is different. It is not your usual four verses and a chorus and a middle eight, with a rock beat, or a disco beat, or any beat, so don't try dancing to it. It is a group of musicians that seem to take a title and words and then going where they want musically, enjoying themselves along the way. Who does it sound like? Everybody and nobody. I can hear CSN&Y and as solo artists, I can hear The Beach Boys, I can hear Paul Simon. I can hear some Gregorian Chants. It is all over the place encased in baroque folk rock songs, what the hell is that you might say. I don't know and I still don't so I will keep listening. That is why I gave this album 5 out of 5 stars. It has opened up wonderful, creative new ideas and thoughts ... Read More:

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We Started Nothing

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Ting Tings

Release Date May 19, 2008
I give this cd 5 stars because it have what's missing in most of the music
today, that's fun and that's what music is just about.

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The Seldom Seen Kid

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Elbow

Release Date March 17, 2008
"Grounds for Divorce" and "One Day Like This" are streets ahead of the rest on this dreary, forgettable album. Anyone who has the arrogance or stupidity to kick a set off with the woeful "Starlings" fully deserves residency in the "Where Are They Now?" file.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Vampire Weekend

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Vampire Weekend

Release Date January 28, 2008
Truly an excellent and exciting record. It seemed worth adding a comment just to say that the much-hyped African graceland influence of this band is somewhat over-emphasised. True, on one or two tracks, it's very obvious and a key part of the sound (Cape Cod). But to be honest, it's a bit of a red herring. For the most part, this is a quirky melodic original and catchy pop album brimming with ideas (how about a comparison of early Police meets the more commercial side of Pavement?). Perhaps some of the negative reactions are because this band really is hard to categorise - so inevitably, people may feel let down if it's not what they expected.

CD-Charts Position 5
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The Age Of The Understatement [Digipack]

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Last Shadow Puppets

Release Date April 21, 2008
I'd give it a 0 if i could.

it was that bad

it's obvious the band were just put together to get as much sales as possible, the music is awful

if still go n buy it then it's your loss i warned you!

CD-Charts Position 6
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Here We Stand

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Fratellis

Release Date June 09, 2008
Costello Music, when the Fratellis debuted on the mainstream in 2006 was an album that from the very first song, you fell in love with the album and the band. Their music was instantly memorable and something that you could get up and dance to without giving much thought to what you were listening to. The art of the Fratellis is that they can make music with excellent lyrics for those who pay attention to that aspect of music, and it's catchy making them the prime choice for parties. Costello Music made an impact and gave the indie bands some credibility amongst the mainstream audiences. Usually when a new band or artist has such a successful debut they generally fail to live up to that hype with their second album.

Here We Stand, was not just the ... Read More:

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Consolers Of The Lonely

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: The Raconteurs

Release Date March 24, 2008
In my earlier review of the first Raconteurs album, I said that I couldn't pick an outstanding track because they were all equally good. That effort was a solid and concise album - 10 short songs, plenty of ideas, and essentially it was veering towards pop rock. It sounded very different to The Raconteurs that I first heard at Leeds Festival in 2006. That band was awesome - big sound, tight performance, audacious musicianship... and I realise now that they must have been playing a lot of songs from this album, though it was clearly far from being released.

Consolers of the Lonely keeps a lot of the pop sensibilities that the earlier effort possessed (vocal harmonies, singalong choruses), but it is very much more rooted in traditional American rock n' roll... and ... Read More:

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All the Right Reasons

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Nickelback

Release Date October 03, 2005
For those who, like me, grew up with the likes of Queen, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, it is indescribably good to hear rock that stands up with the best there has been and is able to look it square in the eye.

I could pontificate on the sheer raw energy of 'All the Wrong Reasons' and 'Next Contender', the deservedly popular 'Rockstar' or the subtle harmonies and just damn good music in 'Photograph', but really, you should just listen to it yourself. Not only is this great old-fashioned rock with good vocals in harmonic depth, it is beautifully balanced as an album between anthems, thrashy head-bangers and non-slushy ballads. To quote an oft-used phrase, it is all killer and no filler, any one of the tracks could be nailed into the ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Konk

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Kooks

Release Date April 14, 2008
The kooks' second album was always going to be extremely difficult. The task in hand was to prove the critics wrong, maybe do something a bit different so as not to be labelled 1-trick ponies, and most importantly to keep the massive fan base which they had built on the back of their debut 'inside in/inside out'. Whether they have achieved any of these is debatable.

The album starts out in promising fashion with the two guitars being used in `see the sun' infusing together to make a catchy, instantly lovable pop-rock track which forces you to come back for another listen. This trend continues with the catchy lead single `Always where I need to be' which has you singing "do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do' in the irritatingly catchy chorus. The lyrics are however strange and ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Scouting For Girls

CD-Charts > Music > Indie Rock and Punk
by: Scouting For Girls

Release Date September 17, 2007

When I first heard 'She's So Lovely' I honestly thought I was going to scream. The fact that their pointless and repetative songs are played over and over again on the radio drives me crazy. Their singles, 'She's So Lovely', 'Heartbeat', 'Its Not About You' and 'Elvis Aint Dead' all sound so similar that when I hear them, I struggle to work out which one is which!