Album review: CHVRCHES – ‘The Bones of What You Believe’

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Scottish synth-trio Chvrches (pronounced 'Churches', to make things clearer) have had a pretty good year by all accounts. After coming fifth in BBC's 'Sound of 2013'm the group released their Recover EP to a fairly strong response, whilst also embarking on a fairly broad...

Album review: Robbie Williams – ‘Swings Both Ways’

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Words by: Dan Bull Follow @DanBull7609 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s),p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); Hark back to November 2001, and following the release of three commercially (and largely critical) solo albums, Robbie Williams had cemented his place in the UK’s music scene. Songwriter of modern-day anthems, showman to rival the greats; the...

Album review: Chase and Status – ‘Brand New Machine’

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The past 12 months have been fairly exciting for the UK dance scene; not only has Britain produced some of the biggest musical exports of the year (Rudimental, Disclosure and AlunaGeorge to name but three), but with a new wave of artists also appearing...

Review: Has Disclosure’s ‘Settle’ reinstated the UK’s love of house music?

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What 'house music' has become over the past few years really has been a convoluted affair. With genre off-shoots still falling under the 'house' moniker (dubstep, dance, EDM, even electro-pop etc), it's become increasingly hard to identify what exactly should be classed as 'house'...

Album review: AlunaGeorge – ‘Body Music’

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Over the past 12 months, one band has been on pretty much everyone's lips..... well everyone within the music industry that is. Therefore it's exciting to see that the general public have warmly taken to Aluna Francis and George Reid as much as the...

Album review: One Direction – ‘Midnight Memories’

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Words by: Dan Bull Follow @DanBull7609 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s),p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); Should Directioners be worried? A quick look at a brief history of boybands shows that, for many, album #3 can be their last... until the reunion of course. Like Take That and *N Sync (who called it a...

Young cast wows at launch of Streets Project

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Over the past few years, London's theatre scene has been exposed to multiple 'new' productions that have taken well-known stories to the stage.... Matilda, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and Shrek to name but a few. Whilst these may be roaring successes at the...

Live Review: The 1975, Brixton Academy

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You've got to hand it to The 1975. The Manchester-based four-piece are currently mid-way through a mammoth five-month tour across the UK, Ireland, Europe, Asia, the US and Australia - not bad for a band who, bar a couple of EPs, are still less...

Album review: Miley Cyrus – ‘Bangerz’

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Words by: Dan Bull Follow @DanBull7609 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s),p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); It might have escaped your notice – she’s not making a big deal of putting it out there – but Miley Cyrus has grown up. She hasn’t been Hannah Montana for some time now, but she isn’t even...

Album review: Paolo Nutini – ‘Caustic Love’

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With Sunny Side Up, Paolo Nutini managed to distance himself from a seemingly endless line of guitar-wearing male solo acts. With clear reggae influences and cover art that, like the music, brandished the colours of the Caribbean; this was an album soaked in sunshine...