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Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

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by: Coldplay

Release Date June 12, 2008
I bought the album blind, without listening to any of the tunes on the basis of past Coldplay albums (something I have been doing rather unsuccessfully recently Burial and Robyn oh dear!) however I wasn't disappointed with this one. It has been on my IPod during my commute all week and there isn't a bad tune on the album.

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Rockferry

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by: Duffy

Release Date March 03, 2008
Duffy is probably the best R&B singer to come from these shores in a long long time. This album is phenomenal. Every track seems to accentuates her vocal range. The musicians supporting her are also very worthy of recognition. I particularly like the unique drum tuning on Mercy and the 60's keyboard playing. The tracks themselves vary but are all interesting: but I doubt that anyone could render them as well as she does. This album is one of the best that I have heard for a long time. A definite buy recommendation.

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Fleet Foxes

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by: Fleet Foxes

Release Date June 16, 2008
Fleet Foxes describe their sound on their My Space page as "Baroque harmonic pop jams" which on listening to their album strikes me as spot on. And who would know better than them they anyway? I've also seen them described as like The Beach Boys if they were a folk band which is also a pretty good description. I think they sound like The Polyphonic Spree if they had decided to do with voices what My Bloody Valentine did with guitars.
All of which descriptive overload leads me to compare them to various contemporary bands -Midlake, The Besnard Lakes, Arcade Fire , Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips though in truth none of them comes as close as I'd like so I don't know why I bothered. Think Crosby Stills And Nash trying to copy The Cocteau ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Home Before Dark

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by: Neil Diamond

Release Date May 12, 2008
I'm going to ruin the end of this cd for everybody without a care in the world... The last track is called ''Home Before dark''. There I did it. Oh no he didn't, oh yes he did.

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Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

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by: Sigur Ros

Release Date June 23, 2008
I salivated at the prospect of Sigur Ros' latest offering as I couldn't get enough of them after the brilliant last CD/DVD, Heima. Sigur Ros are one of the few truly remarkable bands out there and their music is ethereal, beautiful, poignant and at times completely odd. While there are some wonderful pieces of music here-in, I don't think the album works as well as their previous albums. I'm just not sure Gobbledigook works for me but thereafter and as the album progresses, they claim you. I can understand the slight change in their work and fair play to the band, they are continuing to evolve and certainly are more accessible but I feel that this is slightly detrimental to the ethos of Sigur Ros. We love them because they are so out there on their own, ... Read More:

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The Seldom Seen Kid

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by: Elbow

Release Date March 17, 2008
Very impressed. Great sound. Brilliant. Such a wide variety of tracks and sounds.

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Pacific Ocean Blue

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by: Dennis Wilson

Release Date June 16, 2008
A truly great hidden gem. Packed full of feeling and funk. Being an ardent BB fan I bought the original vinyl as an early 20-something and was blown away all those years ago. It seems I've been waiting forever (no pun intended) for it to be re-released and finally it has arrived all 'cleaned up' complete with his second unreleased album 'Bambu' and bonus tracks too. I am in heaven! Seriously, as our American cousins would all too often remark this IS a genuinely 'seminal'/'awesome' work beautifully re-packaged and presented that even a cynical 'oldie but moldy' like me reared on gatefolds and free posters et al was suitably impressed, and all at a bargain price. Ignore the 1*, (as they say you always get one!)at the very least it is 4*, just buy, listen and enjoy then make ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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Poor Man's Heaven

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by: Seth Lakeman

Release Date June 30, 2008
I think this is Seth's best album so far. Sure his other album's are good aswell, but in a different way. I love the sound of this one. I've always prefered his more upbeat hoedown style songs, and this one has plenty of that. 'Poor Man's Heaven' is an instant hit, but had to listen to the others quite a few times before I got into it. Now I have, I appeciate how good it is, and now can't stop listening to it!

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22 Dreams

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by: Paul Weller

Release Date June 02, 2008
This is not his best, but it's not as bad as some make out.There are a couple of tracks, God being the main one , that I just don't get.However in 21 tracks there will be a couple of mis hits.I saw the tour for this album and to be frank, it sounded much better live.Enjoyable, but far from his best

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Chant

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by: Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz

Release Date May 19, 2008
CD won't play in my PC or rip to MP3, so beware.

It may or may not be enchanting etc but right now Universal have pulled a fast one by selling stuff I can't listen to.

Record companies need to grow up.