A Place for Us to Dream: 20 Years of Placebo celebrates the nihilistic English alt-rock
veterans' first two decades via a handsome two-disc set that also boasts a 32-page book of pictures curated by co-founders Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal. ...
Symphonic, melodic, and hypnotic, it takes precisely 33 seconds into the opening cut, Climb, for
Arnold's symptomatic Wall of Sound to wash ashore in a wave that would lull Brian Wilson out of bed. Confidently withdrawn into a melancholy world ...
60 Ft. Dolls' debut album The Big 3 is an unfocused but frequently invigorating collection
of punk-pop. While the group doesn't have the melodic exuberance of Ash or the wild, otherworldly sense of pop style of their Welsh contemporaries Super ...
For the follow-up to the Lightning Seeds' successful comeback Jollification, Ian Broudie essentially stuck to
the same formula as before, turning out a series of sunny, jangly songs occasionally underpinned by rolling trip-hop beats. Although Dizzy Heights isn't as consistent ...
Sice's solo project doesn't fall all that far from the Boo Radleys tree -- all
three of his fellow bandmates help on the album, drummer Rob Cieka appearing on almost every track. Longtime Creation figure Ed Ball also takes part ...
Despite a handful of classic pop singles, Saint Etienne's debut album, Foxbase Alpha, is a
tentative fusion of club culture and swinging '60s pop. Lead vocalist Sarah Cracknell hasn't been fully integrated into the band's lineup -- she doesn't even ...
It's difficult not to find Super Furry Animals' brand of pop infectious, particularly the collection
of numbers compiled for Guerrilla, the band's third full-length and arguably most cohesive -- albeit pleasingly and consistently unpredictable -- one to date. Old-school techno ...
Luke Haines has been honing his signature amalgam of wry, Dickensian Brit-pop, righteous pub folk,
and gadfly art rock since the early 1990s with bands like the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, and Baader Meinhof. Is Alive & Well & Living ...