Christmastime is Here

Advantages: Edgy electro dance music
Disadvantages: None

...Here Come The Drums - Rogue Traders****(and a half) You can't have avoided the insanely catchy single Voodoo Child from the latest huge act to hit the UK charts from Australia (and Neighbours). Yes Izzie/Izzy and her mates the Rogue Traders release their debut over these waters. So is it much cop or is Natalie Barometer (it's like the new Sugababe these surnames are too much sorry Natalie… Bassingthwaighte) gonna have to go back and have an affair with Harold Bishop? 1. Believer - The opening track from the Rogue Traders (I wonder where they did get there name from) has a 'hey, hey, hey' opening like that Prodigy song we can't remember… Fire starter! It then bizarrely starts to sound like Gwen Stefani singing over a hard rocky Pink song, all guitars and hard drums! Damn, it its not half bad. "Just come on and say you love me, one... Read review

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Advantages: A number of highly infectious, incredibly catchy songs
Disadvantages: The tracks don't sound as good on CD as they did live

...Adequate Seven were a UK band that use to often get misplaced in the genre bracket of 'Skacore', however their sound was always far more than this in truth; bridging the divide between Funk and Hardcore, fusing the two in order to produce their own unique brand of music. I feel that the band were always at their best when they opted to show off their more Hardcore side, however the band do this less so on their second album 'Here On Earth' in favour of exploring their funkier nature. Unfortunately in the December of 2006, having been around for 6 years and after playing over 500 gigs the band decided to call it a day. This was a great loss for UK music as Adequate Seven were an exceptional live band; however their music still lives on today through the records that they released. 'Here On Earth' kicks off with the catchy single... Read review

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Advantages: Eno's first musical high
Disadvantages: One bad track

...with Robert Fripp) and his Discreet Music. Only Here Come the Warm Jets is something different. It is an unusual beginning in many ways when considered against some of her later works. Only his second solo album is comparable (Taking Tiger Mountain [By Strategy]) as they are both song based albums. Another Green World and Before and After Science may well have conventional songs (well, as conventional as Eno ever gets) but they also show his leaning towards pure ambient, though in Another Green World, his first excursion, tracks like Sombre Reptile preface his Ambient music and yet use a lot of conventional instruments. There is clear guitar and percussive sounds. His later work often uses ‘found’ sounds and those tapped simply from nature. HCTWJ though is the album Eno made after he split from Roxy Music after For Your Pleasure. Many... Read review

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