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'Lacks the shrewdness they seem to believe they deliver...'
'Although it grows with each listen, it sits in its own desolate gloom...'
Exclusive interview with Sheffield's folk n' roll duo...
...Turned a life full of loss into his own gain...
'loses itself in its own unapparent sadness...'
'have the ferocity only the finest could muster...'
'could crack a grin on even the most 'X Factor' ridden powder puff...'
Rarely threatens to leaves its asylum...
'Never has my finger so dutifully twitched towards the stop button...'
Swirls through a cascade of licks, harmonies and sheer grit...
Genial and radio friendly...
Will take you to hell and back if you dare to let them...
Starring Reverend and the Makers, Carl Woodford, Lords of Flatbush and more...
Delicate funk popper...
Ambient and acoustic balladry...
Quick beats and surging guitars from the Sheffield four-piece...
Their ambiguous folk pop is about to turn heads...
Darks sounds with a theatrical feel...
'jungle music for the city dwellers...'
Scantily takes you back to a sixties summers day...
Taps into a dark energy of heavy riffage and translucent vocals...
Whoever says rock n roll is dead is a total prick...
'Still got the bite that brought Glasto to its knees...'
With a catalogue of sun-loving tunes, they might just live up to their name and steal your heart...
'a sixties swinger with a bohemian heart beat...'
'Little to separate its mindless synth and sloth like chug other than a few note worthy melodies...'
'The well travelled finger picking extremist has his finger on the pulse....
A ruckus is going down and Skeletons are the cause...
'Hiding in the eye of their own storm...'
'...the union of soul and computers has rarely been achieved so well...'
'sparse garage hum that needs Nurofen to accompany the unforgiving drone...'
'the work of a band who know exactly where they are and what they are...'
'gets down to your bones...'
'One of the most un-erring records of the seventies'
'they can keep their soul and back yard rock for themselves...'
'Stoner paradise...'
Bound for chart success and dance floor grooves...
What is your black sheep?
It's sullen stuff...
Moronic....
The American Werewolf is back with a vengence
Whisky and cigar saturated sounding mantra.....
'The 67 year old is getting gloomy in his old age...'
'Levi howls through a concoction of mean licks, thumping kicks...'
New single review
Interview with as-yet-unsigned modsters
'plain to see they have work to do...'
There is something to be thankfulfor after all...
A raw unblemished chug dipped in sentiment...
'Standing firm in the centre of the new rave culture...'
Exclusive interview with the unsigned folk perfectionist...
'intelligently crosses different lines...'
It can be easy to forget...
'A time that shaped the the sound of the 80s...'
'twists tales of life on the road...'
'elegant melodies that find their counterpoint in the singer’s voice...'
'Be prepared to set up camp in the middle of the road...'
'Still revelling on the fringes, and getting all the better for it...'
'Nneka’s natural vocal rhyme circles the mellow beat...'
'Bops to its own beat...'
'has the vigour of a Full English munching Magaluf monster ...'
'possesses the grit and passion that has been with him throughout his long and illustrious career...
The hip grinding blues groove remains...
'It’s dancing music and the crowd dutifully respond with a hip swinging splendour...'
'Riddled in summer fun...'
'Return to form for the multi-million selling darlings of down tempo...'
Gutter punk for the school days...
Their big time rock has gained them admiring glances...
'Borderline rock epic sparkles with the filthiest synth...'
'Easy listening that never strays far from its laid back grooves...'
'Welcome to the New Blues revolution...'
Heartfelt folk that doesn't quite deliver...
New EP fails to turn on the bright lights...
Folk balladry and feeling make easy listening...
'Well rounded third album featuring ballads and blistering assaults...'
'There’s a more distinct edge to their writing here...'
'it’s distinctly wedding rock or Radio 1 hit wonder...'
'Could well pave the way for future glory...'
'Sheffield's diamond in the rough...'
'The pounding story of a sexual cold war...'
'Dark undertones run through their poky pop rock veins...'
'An album that looks on the large side of life...'
'Intrudes on every inch of your personal space...'
'There's still the ever present fresh feeling...'
Part of 2010 will always belong to the Black Keys...
'Keep them on your radar...'
'A very exciting prospect indeed...'
Takes a few listens to earn a place in your heart...
'Chirpy enough to make a CBBC presenter look mardy...'
'Resonates through the airwaves like an angry protest...'
'Could melt the coldest winter heart...'
Get ready to reminisce...
'Mcelligott's affinity with strong songwriting continues...'
'Ezio exhibit feral blues that could soundtrack a car chase somewhere out west...'
'Anthemic folk and evocative melodies...'
'that charm eventually becomes as plastic as her breasts...'
"Contains the moving poignancy of a ghost ship in the night..."
Tom Walton ends one of Sheffield's rock n' roll mysteries...
'a car crash of sound...'
'Continues fine vain of precocious songsmithery...'
"A fresh bond between reggae and pop..."
'falls too far into its own story...'
More gritpop than Britpop...
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