Reviews

When an artist takes almost two decades to release their next album, you can usually expect an overproduced heap of something pretty awful (see Guns ‘N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy.) It’s not quite the case for Neneh Cherry, however, who took a whole five days...

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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'); With her 2011 debut On A Mission, Katy B successfully fused elements of UK house, garage and dance, creating songs that sounded as good on the radio as they did in the club. With an NME award in...

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'); As one of the Sounds Of 2013, Angel Haze was clearly eager for Dirty Gold - her debut album, following EPs, mix tapes and appearances as a featured artist – to be released during her year. So much...

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...

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'); Yes, it may have taken a while to get this review up, but sometimes art has to be enjoyed before it's been critiqued, so we have good reason; this was a project that was so secretive that producers...

Who said big girls can't rave? When Basement Jaxx come to town, you know you're never going to be disappointed; they're one of the rarities in the music-world who could play the same set year-in, year-out, and the crowd would never tire - interestingly, the...

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'); Unfortunately for R. Kelly, his previous two soul-influenced records, Love Letter and Write Me Back, both failed to make much of a dint in the charts over here. For a man in his late 40s, you could be...

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'); Almost fifteen years after the release of her breakthrough debut ...Baby One More Time, and following six more studio records, all of which provided chart-bothering hits of some degree, Britney Jean delivers what pop princess Britney Spears describes...

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'); The majority of us last saw Gary Barlow's solo performance on Sunday’s The X Factor, following his stint as the country’s most in-demand concert organiser (breathing new life into both Children In Need and, at the opposite end...