Elements Of James Last Vol.1 - James Last

Advantages: More music for fans of the band members, decent album overall
Disadvantages: inconsistent, different to what you'd expect from the group

...The Last Shadow Puppets is a 3 piece indie rock band fronted by Arctic Monkeys lead singer, Alex Turner. His sideline group is made up by James Ford on Drums and Miles Kane on Bass if i remember rightly. Both of these musicians met Alex Turner when Miles Kane's other band, 'The Rascals' supported the Arctic Monkeys. The album is called 'The Age of The Understatement' and consists of 12 Tracks and runs to almost 35 minutes. Fans of either band will have to be open-minded as The Last Shadow Puppets do seem to be a little more downbeat than Arctic Monkeys and more contemporary and conventional than The Rascals. The Tracks [Track 1 - The Age of The Understatement] The album screeches into an early crescendo with its title track, also a prominent yet simple bassline present early on. It may lead some Arctic Monkeys fans... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful songs, emotional, clever lyrics, great voice
Disadvantages: Not keen on the cover art

...JAMES BLUNT - WHAT A … NICE MAN! INTRO Like most people, I first heard of James Blunt back in 2005, when his single You're Beautiful hit the number one spot in the UK music charts. I fell in love with the song, it was beautiful! I know many people became fed up of it, but not me, I still love it now. I bought his first album - Back to Bedlam - and thought it was excellent. Then it disappeared into the abyss of Teenage Daughter's Bedroom! Realising I was missing it, I bought another copy of the album and - as usual - the original one turned up not long afterwards. So we have two in the house. I was thrilled when I heard he had a new album coming out. James Blunt is one of the few artists that I would buy their album, without hearing any of the tracks on it in advance. But this time, I heard the single 1973 being played... Read review

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Advantages: Great pop
Disadvantages: None really - it's just pop

...One of the classics UK singles bands of the last few years, James have always had critical and popular appeal - probably because they wrote some damn good pop tunes, with loads of cred because they were party of the "Madchester" scene. Now yet another band to reform for 2007, James have released this greatest hits collection to pave the way. And what a lot of great tunes they are, too. James were formed in Manchester and signed to the legendary Factory. Then the Madchester stuff kicked off and James joined in: their “Gold mother” album spawned four singles with “How was it for you”, “Come home” and “Lose control” all cracking the top 40 but then came the classic “Sit down” — kept off the number one spot in the UK by Chesney Hawkes’ “The one and only” (as annoying as Joe Dolce’s “Shaddapa your face” keeping Ultravox’s “Vienna” from... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful