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Jordan2292 has written the following articles:

22412

Battles - Atlas

Review by Jordan Dowling

Or: how Battles shrug off every half-arsed label pinned to them in four and a half minutes and write the single of the year...»

21242

The Fratellis, The Enemy at Nottingham Rock City, Sat 17 Feb

Review by Jordan Dowling

Sometimes it’s as subtle as the ebb and flow of the tides, sometimes it’s a gaping chasm; either way, the difference between style and substance is always notable under scrutiny. You can hear it in the mistiming of a snare hit or the late strumming of a guitar, and similarly you can hear it in slight breaks of faux-accents. Tonight stands as a stronger contrast, as The Enemy (pictured) begin their tour as support to The Fratellis...»

20609

Dälek - Abandoned Language

Review by Jordan Dowling

New Jersey-based duo Dälek, a.k.a. MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production), have always stood out from the crowd, whichever one it is you care to put them with. The pair are too brutal to be hip-hop, too beat-orientated to be labelled rap-metal, and they use enough layered white noise to earn comparisons to My Bloody Valentine...»

20555

Jesu - Conqueror

Review by Jordan Dowling

Conqueror kicks off with the title track, a detuned riff rising like a phoenix from a translucent haze of hushed electronics. Here Broadrick's vocals are strangely dry, sticking out uneasily against the warm, cloistering atmosphere of his doom-metal squalls...»

21352

Annuals - Big Zeus

Review by Jordan Dowling

With North American support dates for The Walkmen and The Kaiser Chiefs beneath their collective belt, Annuals are already well on their way to perforating the mainstream. But they will need to put a lot more drive into their songs before they do the same to long-term memories...»

20253

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

Review by Jordan Dowling

Like Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah before them, The Besnard Lakes have released an indie classic from completely out of the blue...»

21004

30 Seconds To Mars - Attack

Review by Jordan Dowling

It would be so easy to slap a big fat zero on 30 Second To Mars’s latest single and be done with it...»

16343

Reigns - Styne Vallis

Review by Jordan Dowling

Pretention Alert - Code Yellow
Wessex's Reigns introduce their second album with a subdued wave of radio static, seemingly obscuring a frog chorus. Somewhere in between a dull voice, heavily coated in distortion, mutters something indescipherable...»

20608

Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space

Review by Jordan Dowling

A couple things to clear up. If some sentences seem a bit broken up, its for dramatic effect. honestly. Plus i have a longer version of this review, but i think keeping it short and sweet works well here. Jordan*»

18665

Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go

Review by Jordan Dowling

Those expecting anything resembling the post-metal wall-of-soundscapes of old may be found wanting as on My Heart Has A Wish..., velocity and intensity wise, Aereogramme have shifted several gears down...»

13499

DiScover: iLiKETRAiNS

In Depth by Jordan Dowling

As the sun sets in the Nottinghamshire sky so does a chapter in the story of iLiKETRAiNS. The band are ready to draw a line under their old material, catalogued most comprehensively on the seven-track Progress Reform EP, and begin expanding their horizons...


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18317

redcarsgofaster - 24 Passes / House Of Flies

Review by Jordan Dowling

Slow burning is all well and good, but there has to be enough fuel for the fire and here Leicester-based six-piece redcarsgofaster fail to deliver...»

18220

Kultur Shock - We Came To Take Your Jobs Away

Review by Jordan Dowling

Okay, first things first: if it wasn’t for the shock success of Gogol Bordello on these shores it’s unlikely that Kultur Shock would be anywhere close to the radar - the fact that they have played six European tours in the past four years to apathy attests to this. However, that shouldn’t put you off, because here another off-kilter gem that brings the traditional songwriting structures of old and fuses it with the energy of punk-rock unearthed...»

15481

Marshall Watson - Math And Other Word Problems

Review by Jordan Dowling

“That’s it, I’m going to listen to no more music for the rest of my life, if need be I will cut off my ears with a rusty razor blade and throw them away like trash"»

17330

DiScover: Napoleon IIIrd

In Depth by Jordan Dowling

DiS speaks to Napoleon IIIrd: “I find it very difficult to write music with other people: I generally know what I want from a song and take criticism, constructive or otherwise, very badly"»

17191

Hot Club de Paris - Drop It Till It Pops

Review by Jordan Dowling

Here, the band shows a great amount of promise with an album that houses more ideas per song than most bands do in their entire back-catalogue. Once they manage to weed out all the bad ideas, Hot Club De Paris will be an extremely exciting prospect...»

15416

The Human Value - The Human Value

Review by Jordan Dowling

What you have here is a showcase in mediocrity...»

7619

Damo Suzuki tours UK. CAN you help?

News by Jordan Dowling

Former Can and Kraftwerk vocalist Damo Suzuki is looking for gigs in the UK between the dates of 14th November and 29th of November 2006...»

16899

Serena Maneesh - Sapphire Eyes

Review by Jordan Dowling

On its own, 'Sapphire Eyes' is an impressive song that deserves to be held up to the spotlight. As an introduction to a wonderful band, though, it has as much worth as an Ashley Cole lecture on hard graft...»

16123

Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow (reissue)

Review by Jordan Dowling

Sometimes labeling a band stoner-rock can seem like a cop out...»

16815

The Butterfly - Impatient Orchid EP

Review by Jordan Dowling

It is quite impressive when the main problem you can find with a band is that they are too smart for their own good. Indeed, you feel that Leeds four-piece The Butterfly would rather have a long discussion about how they are influenced by the works of Tolstoy or Greek tragedy than put across the sonic qualities of their new EP Impatient Orchid...»

16458

The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love

Review by Jordan Dowling

The Rapture have kept all the ingredients from their previous successes, but they have forgot to ignite the oven...»

16024

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun

Review by Jordan Dowling

It is almost impossible to carve a niche in a genre as restrictive as post-rock, but with their Heaven-sent melodies and plunging riffs of brimstone Red Sparowes have drilled a planet-sized chasm...»

14524

Ardency - Dear Human

Review by Jordan Dowling

Dear Human has a zen-like quality that, when focused on completely, can clear the heart, the brain and the soul of pessimistic thoughts...»

16249

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part 1)

Review by Jordan Dowling

In the live environment the seamless blend of emo, pop and electronica combusts with a spark of unadulterated emotion, but here the tone is too sunny to add any atmosphere to the song, and yet its tempo prevents it from becoming joyous or uplifting...»

16112

The Hidden Cameras - Awoo

Review by Jordan Dowling

'Guilty pleasure': never has such a usually worthless description been so fitting. Okay, a poor introduction, but its hard to know where to start with Awoo, the second Hidden Cameras full-length to reach our shores...»

14868

Kayo Dot, Bloody Panda - Split 12"

Review by Jordan Dowling

It's a frightening one, littered with dead ends and periods of jet-black darkness. It's a journey you will want to take again and again...»

14842

Heliconia - Glad You Were Born

Review by Jordan Dowling

In adding a new ingredient into the Q-friendly indie-rock formula, Heliconia have created something even more predictable and dreary than its original form...»

14928

Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon

Review by Jordan Dowling

Although there are some songs during which Tortoise reach their full potential, for the most part this compilation is hideously excessive and stacked with at least two CDs' worth of filler...»

14967

DiScover: Sika Redem

In Depth by Jordan Dowling

In late May 2006 Sika Redem released their long-overdue debut album Entheogen, to a bank of hushed praise. The nine-track album received 9/10 or 4/5 reviews in several magazines and webzines, but the band have had a conspicuously slight amount of press coverage...»

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