The List
30 April 2009
3 stars

Toronto’s gap-toothed, potty-mouthed electro-punker is back, and although album five is not Peaches’ most energetic or hardcore, there’s still plenty to like.

The List
30 April 2009
3 stars

If Junior Boys’ first album, Last Exit was a colour, it would be icy blue.

The List
16 April 2009
3 stars
Best known for their whistly, catchier-than-the-cold hit ‘Young Folks’, the Swedish trio return here with their fifth album.

The List
16 April 2009
4 stars
Producing roughly as much energy as a Mentos mint dropped into a can of Diet Coke, the Glasgow sixsome follow last year’s Sissy Hits EP with a debut album Hey Everyone!.

The List
16 April 2009
4 stars
It’s hard, maybe impossible, not to fall for the nerdy, feel-good croon-a-alongs of this trailer-dwelling Southern boy, who calls himself ‘the softest boy in Mississippi’, and who was signed to Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks imprint last year.

The List
19 March 2009
4 stars
More complex, euphoric and chaotic than ever, Dan Deacon’s follow-up to Spiderman of the Rings is his showpony. From the home of weirdo electro-noise, Baltimore, the oversized specs wearer is worshipped like a demi-god at live performances where he plays in the crowd, whipping fans into a dribbling, swaying mash. In [...]

The List
5 February 2009
4 stars
Lovable little Mr Doom and Gloom, or as he puts it, ‘Glasgow’s alcoholic lo-fi miserablist’ set out to write an album of positive love songs and this, the result, shows Arab Strap’s one-time frontman in playfully sentimental but happily twee-free mode.

The List 
22 January 2009
3 stars
Mr Hegarty returns, with his mesmerising whine and theatrical warble grabbing the back of the neck like frosty fingers.

The List
22 January 2009
3 stars
Crafted from hand claps, whistles, glockenspiels, violins, guitars and drums, this grower of an album from the intelligently eccentric Andrew Bird sneaks up on you after the third or fourth listen.

The List
11 December 2008
4 stars
 

The electronic two-team of Gaz Cobain and Brian Dougans, aka Future Sounds of London, share their love of what they call ‘cosmic space music’ on this compilation - a trippy swirl through the 60s up to the present day, taking in Devendra Banhart, Tim Buckley, Espers and Can.