Out There A Minute - Sun Ra & His Arkestra

Advantages: Upbeat,sing along album, no weak tracks, even makes me want to dance
Disadvantages: It ends!

...cover is a cartoonist image of Women dressed from the 1950’s (like the retro postcards that you get at the seaside) picking out Vinyl for the record collection. This is the retro image that the band I think, are trying to express. This theme is carried out throughout the booklet that comes with the album, with the images of the old fashioned ladies appearing alongside the song lyrics whilst holding the Fratellis album cover. Inside the cover is handly the words to all of the songs, Many of which need to be placed to fully understand the meaning of the song. The covers for each of the bands singles that have been released thus far are exactly the same. The Album The album has 12 listed tracks and is 45 minutes long, which is about normal for a decent album. Here is a song by song rating of the album 1 Henrietta – What... Read review

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Advantages: The first classic album of 2000
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...Could this be the same band that were responsible for that loved-up masterpiece Screamadelica? Seems so. Like all the best bands, the Scream keep reinventing themselves. So, if Screamadelica was the ecstasy album, 94's Give Out But Don't Give Up the smack album, and 97's Vanishing Point the comedown album, then this is the sound of a band getting political, getting angry, getting organised (or is that "rgnsd"?). Oh, and getting totally mental on speed. The new, vowel-free Scream are back to destroy dictatorship and oppose oppression. On the album's title track, Bobby Gillespie sings "No civil disobedience...exterminate the underclass...everyone's a prostitute". Other tracks include "Swastika Eyes" and "Kill All Hippes", the first and latest singles respectively. On the jagged, damaged rapfest "Pills", everything dissolves... Read review

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Advantages: Eleven beautiful tracks plus bonus materials
Disadvantages: None

...'These things move in three's’ is the amazing debut album from the Bexhill-on-sea boys Mumm-Ra. Mumm-Ra consists of Niall Buckler (Bass and Vocals), Gareth Jennings (Drums and Percussion), Oli Frost (Guitar and Vocals), James ‘Tate’ Arguile (Guitar) and James 'Noo' New (Lead Vocals and Keyboards). The boys have currently just come back from their first Headlining tour. I had the pleasure of meeting these guys on the NME Indie Rock tour in February where they blew all of the other bands out of the water. I had previously only downloaded their singles in which I thought the B-Sides would be difficult to match, but the album definitely doesn't disappoint. The album delivers quirky pop tunes that you're bound to recognise such as 'What would Steve do?', ‘Out of the question’ and their new single 'She's got you high.' The album... Read review

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