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Nanci Griffith, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Monday, 8 February 2010
More twang for your buck
Album: Gil Scott-Heron, I’m New Here (XL)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
The revolution will not be interrupted by mobile phone
Shockwaves NME Awards Tour, Academy, Newcastle
Sunday, 7 February 2010
White, preppy guitar-boys with nothing much to say about anything and songs familiar from television adverts are the next big thing (again)
Album: Yeasayer, Odd Blood (Mute/Secretly Canadian)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Yeasayer's second album starts by trying to scare the living hell out of you, then spends the rest of its time putting a comforting arm around your shoulder.
Album: Stefano Battaglia & Michele Rabbia, Pastorale (ECM)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Pleasingly minimal, ambiently inclined duo of pianist Battaglia and percussionist Rabbia.
Album: Motion City Soundtrack, My Dinosaur Life (Sony/Columbia)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
People who ought to know better are overexcited about the fourth MCS album, but for anyone with their wits about them, alarm bells ought to be sounding as soon as you see that the producer is Mark Hoppus of Blink 182.
Album: Massive Attack, Heligoland (Virgin)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Where do you go when the sound you pioneered has been absorbed by the mainstream as a default setting for car ads?
Album: Allison Moorer, Crows (Rykodisc)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
She made the two most soulful country-rock albums of the early 2000s and then drifted. Here she kicks further over the country traces and returns aboard a semi-acoustic pop-rock vehicle of some solemnity.
Album: Don Cherry, Hear & Now (Atlantic)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Reissue of a rare 1977 fusion album by the shamanistic Cherry (1936-95), the Ornette Coleman Quartet trumpeter.
Album: Various artists, Tsikaya: Musicos do Interior (Pangei-Art)
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Portuguese-Angolan Victor Gama went to Angola to salvage what he could of his musical heritage after 20 years of civil war.
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