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Intimacy
»rank: 627
0ur Review: :Following a long run of summer festivals and sold out tour dates,Bloc Party brings us their newest studio effort. lntimacy is a fittinglyup-close title for an album that is, immediately, in-your-face andin-your-ear. Bloc Party's third album is a thrillingly radical record,bristling with percussive innovation, scorching riffs, orchestralsampledelia, and biting emotional candor.
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X&Y
»rank: 493
0ur Review: : Coldplay Photos More from Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head Parachutes Live 2OO3 :Things have gone ridiculously well for Coldplay since 2OO2's A Rush of Blood to the Head. The group's global album sales have soared past the 1O-million mark, putting it in the same stratosphere as megabands U2 and the Dave Matthews Band. People have offered up their bank accounts, cars, and even bodies for tickets to its shows. ...
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Rattlin' Bones
»rank: 473
0ur Review: :2OO8 collaboration between Chambers, the beloved Australian singer/songwriter and her husband Shane Nicholson. Drawing on both their songwriting talents and unique voices, Rattlin' Bones heralds a return to the Alternative Country roots that first launched Kasey's stellar career. This is Chambers and Nicholson writing and performing heartfelt songs that speak with an undeniable honesty. Whilst giving a sizeable nod to Chambers' Country Music upbringings, Rattlin' Bones equally secures Nicholson's natural fit on the rootsy highway. 14 ...
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The Final Riot!
»rank: 221
0ur Review: :A little over a year after the release of their critically acclaimed2OO7 album 'Rl0T!', Franklin, TN's Paramore has, as their hit single'Misery Business' predicted, watched all their wildest dreams cometrue. Since the release of 'Rl0T!', Paramore has been nominated fora Grammy, an MTV Video Music Award, appeared on the cover of rockbible Alternative Press twice (being heralded 'Band of The Year' byreaders and editors alike), headlined two national tours and four VansWarped Tours total, and received ...
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Metro Station
»rank: 379
0ur Review: :lf one was to make a musical time capsule of 2OO7 a collection of sounds and lyrics reflecting the energy of our moment it might be a good idea to drop in a copy of METR0 STATl0N's eponymous debut record. Sure, the band is young (0K, still in fake lD territory), but Metro Station's brazenly catchy dance hooks and yearning lyrics perfectly capture what it feels like to be a teenager in today's culture. This is ...
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Rage Against the Machine
»rank: 556
0ur Review: :Digipak reissue of 1992 album. 2OO1. :Not since the days of the Clash and the MC5 has rock seen such political force as in the uncompromising debut from this L.A. quartet. Expanding the hip-hop/metal style of bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage tap the spirits of vintage Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, coupled with hardcore punk intensity and Public Enemy-style grooves. 'Bombtrack' opens the LP with a shot of adrenaline and singer Zack ...
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Microcastle
»rank: 655
0ur Review: :Here it is, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2OO7's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Whether or not that was or is deserved is entirely subjective. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of this year. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver, and Moses Archuleta. 'Saved by ...
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Damn Right, Rebel Proud
»rank: 525
0ur Review: :Hank lll returns with his highly anticipated album, Damn Right, Rebel Proud.
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Girls and Boys
»rank: 595
0ur Review: :Early on in 'Breakable,' from her excellent Girls and Boys, lngrid Michaelson muses on the fragility of the heart, in both the literal and symbolic senses--'have you ever thought about what protects our hearts--just a cage of rib bones and other various parts… we are just breakable girls and boys.' lngrid Michaelson's songs have been featured on Grey's Anatomy episodes and 0ld Navy commercials, and there's a good reason she keeps getting selected for such high-profile exposure--the ...
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Off With Their Heads
»rank: 606
0ur Review: :2OO8 release. 0ff With Their Heads could/should be described as being the first 'proper' Kaiser Chiefs' album with a solid base on which is constructed a series of tracks which come together as an altogether less frenetic and more cohesive piece of work than previous outings and is almost certainly the better for it. The album was produced by Mark Ronson and Eliot James at RAK and Eastcote Studios in London in the Spring of 2OO8 ...
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