Now Dance '92 (Compilation - 1992) Review

Released when the format was at its lowest ebb, the double vinyl version of Now Dance ’92 gives you serious bang for your buck. Of the 20 tracks on offer, 14 appear in extended form while there’s also 10 extra tunes that aren’t on the CD and includes East 17’s House Of Love (Pedigree Mix), The Shamen’s Ebeneezer Goode (Beat Edit) and Erasure’s Voulez Vous (Abba-esque Version). Madonna originally auditioned for the co-vocal on Shake Your Head in 1983 but Kim Basinger’s voice was recorded for the 1992 remix. The version here restores Madonna’s pre-fame take.

TEARS FOR FEARS "I love you but I'm lost" - Single Review

The goodwill for Tears For Fears never seems to dissipate, even though they leave every comeback a lot longer than the previous one. Roland and Curt have returned with a hefty, tuneful, strident new single to remind the world why they’re so easy to love. The new studio album should be worth waiting for.

U2 "Get out of your own way" - Single Review

Bono’s voice is on its best form for some time here, and for a second straight single, his vocal dominates what starts as a stripped back, mellifl uous bit of smart gentle rock. Then in comes Larry Mullen Jnr’s drums, and we have U2 turned right up to 10.

Franz are on the up

A Parisian electronic legend has helped Franz Ferdinand continue broadening their horizons. The Scottish band’s next studio album, Always Ascending, lands on 9 February featuring production by French studio whiz and DJ Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Phoenix, Beastie Boys). It’s their fi rst material since Sparks collaboration FFS, plus the arrival of new bandmates Julian Corrie and Dino Bardot. Frontman Alex Kapranos calls the music, “simultaneously futuristic and naturalistic.” Franz Ferdinand tour the UK and Ireland next year commencing at Galway Leisure Centre on 10 February.

Duran Duran - Sampler 1997

The Japanese promotional-only 10-track retrospective compilation CD, includes tracks Electric Barbarella, Hungry Like The Wolf, White Lines, Planet Earth etc. Issued in 1997 to Japanese radio, this sampler with catalogue number PCD-0888, has a unique four-page inner.

Rick Astley - 12” Collection

The 1989 Japanese-only five-track CD single includes Take Me To Your Heart (Autumn Leaves Mix), She Wants To Dance With Me (Extended Mix), It Would Take A Strong Man (Matt's Jazzy Guitar Mix), Never Gonna Give You Up (Cake Mix) and Together Forever (Lover's Leap Extended Remix). Unique picture sleeve with lyrics and an obi-strip that welcomes Rick to Japan!

Paul Weller to Release New Studio Album A Kind Revolution on May 12

PAUL WELLER will release his long-awaited new studio album, A KIND REVOLUTION, on Warner Bros. Records/Parlophone on May 12. This is Weller's 25th album and as is customary with each new release, Weller continues to boldly blaze his own sonic pathway into fresh musical territory.

Weller recorded the 10 songs that comprise A KIND REVOLUTION at his own Black Barn Studio. He co-produced the album with long-time collaborator and mixer Jan "Stan" Kybert (Oasis, Bjork, Massive Attack, etc.), who has previously worked closely with Weller on his last studio album Saturns Pattern (2015), as well as Sonik Kicks (2012), As Is Now (2005), Studio 150 (2004)and Illumination(2002)..

ACCLAIMED ALTERNATIVE POP QUARTET ALVAREZ KINGS SET APRIL 14 RELEASE FOR FULL-LENGTH DEBUT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN

Critically acclaimed South Yorkshire, UK alternative pop quartet Alvarez Kings will release their full-length debut album, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN [Sire/Warner Bros. Records], in stores and at all digital retailers on April 14, 2017. The two recently released tracks "Sleepwalking, Pt. II" and "Cold Conscience" are currently available for download on all dsp's. Check out the full tracklisting below.

Linkin Park Facebook Live Performance Of New Single "Heavy"

LINKIN PARK will be launching their new single "Heavy," featuring Kiiara, with a special performance

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Familia Album Review

It’s easy to forget Sophie Ellis-Bextor started out in the late-Nineties as singer for indierockers theaudience. She has always been something of a chameleon, however, scoring a massive hit in 2000 with Spiller’s immaculate disco-styled Groovejet – which went on to become the decade’s most played single – and notching up more electro-pop hits before drafting in Ed Harcourt for 2014’s sophisticated but more low-key Wanderlust. Harcourt – whose recent Furnaces album has underlined his place as one of the country’s fi nest songwriters – is present again for her sixth studio album.
His influence can be heard most notably on the string-heavy Here Comes The Rapture, an earnestly
rhapsodic ode to true love fi lled with grandiloquent statements like “In the midst of renaissance you inspire me to live”. It’s evident, too, on Unrequited, where Ellis- Bextor’s well-spoken warble sits alongside Matthew Caws’ (of evergreen indie rockers Nada Surf) on a baroque pop paean to true love that, this time, has been thwarted. Harcourt, though, has proven himself skilled at more dramatic tracks, too, just as Ellis-Bextor has shown herself as adept at shifting moods as she is at shifting styles. On My Puppet Heart, their increasingly pugnacious attitude slips effortlessly into a chorus reminiscent of ELO; Hush Little Voices fi nds them sharing their love for Latin America by layering cheerful mariachi horns over troubled references to anxiety, and Death Of Love combines guitars that sound like they were nabbed from Joy Division with keyboards as optimistic as the song’s declaration that “What we’ve created/ It cannot be undone”. But Familia’s two standout tracks are Wild Forever and Crystallise. The former – an effervescent, galloping pop tune, her voice at its sweetest as it rushes towards an ecstatic chorus – remains closest to the dancefl oor-friendly Ellis-Bextor template with which we’re most familiar. The latter – a lush, mid-paced slice of piano-led elegance – confi rms that she remains one of our more refi ned pop stars. Theaudience may be forgotten, but Ellis-Bextor’s audience has every reason to remain loyal.

Paul Weller To Release First-Ever Soundtrack/Film Score Album


For the first time in his long career, Paul Weller has recorded his first-ever full film score / soundtrack project, entitled JAWBONE: Music From The Film, which will be released on Warner Bros. Records in the U.S. on March 10thJAWBONEthe film, will be released in theatres on March 17th in the U.K. This is the first new music from Weller since his universally praised 2015 album Saturns Pattern. JAWBONE: Music From the Film will be available for pre-order beginning today via AmazoniTunes,  Apple Music and Spotify.

Flo Morrissey - Gentlewoman, Ruby Man Album Reviews (Critic Reviews)

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock - Based on 6 Critics

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80 - The Guardian
On a wildly eclectic set of cover versions – everything from the Velvet Underground to the Bee Gees – the duo warp the originals into something new, strange and wonderful
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80 - Mojo
This covers collection moves with mysterious grace.

70 - Uncut
Morrissey's rather affectless delivery drains any celebratory urge from "Grease." But "Sunday Morning" is a triumph.

64 - Pitchfork
With the exception of James Blake’s “Colour of Anything,” which here sounds like an outtake from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack, Morrissey and White fare better with the more recent material than with the old.
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60 -  The Independent (UK)
His light, understated tenor blends well with her piquant tone on the blithe, buttoned-down yacht-rock grooves he creates for Little Wings’ “Look At What The Light Did Now” and Frank Ocean’s “Thinking Bout You”; but an affectless version of Barry Gibb’s “Grease” is less successful.
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60 - Drowned in Sound
This record tames its chosen songs, moulding them into softer and smoother beasts, and producing altogether sanitised interpretations.
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Bonobo - Migration Album Reviews (Critic Reviews)

Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock - Based on 6 Critics

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80 - The Guardian
The woozy No Reason is verdant and brooding; the languid, half-awake Break Apart caters to the chillout/easy-listening audience; while Bambro Koyo Ganda features energy from Morocco’s Innov Gnawa; and Kerala’s undulating rhythms, pensive and purposeful, mirror the movement of a bird’s wing.
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80 - Exclaim
This album is yet another triumph in Bonobo's incredibly consistent career, and if the Black Sands and North Borders tours are anything to go by, the live rendition of Migration will be one of 2017's highlights.
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80 - Mojo
It ranks right up there with 2010's exquisite Black Sands.

70 - Allmusic
With Migration, Green blends the unexpected with the familiar and emerges with some of his most affecting work yet.
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60 - The Observer
It all blends into a sonically rich album, perfect for gazing dreamily out of windows at passing landscapes, even if it doesn’t reach any new destinations. 
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60 - Uncut
Migration, road-tested in SJ sets, finds Green cruising into that emotional landscapes occupied by the likes of Jon Hopkins and Mark Pritchard.

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The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody Album Review (Critics Review)

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Neo-Psychedelia - Based on 6 Critics
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90 - Musicomh
It’s possible that Oczy Mlody will disappoint those looking for an easy hit, or the sound of old-school Lips, but for those willing to persist and explore, it’s a work of nuance and intelligence.
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90 - Slantmagazine
What makes Oczy Mlody so enthralling is that the Flaming Lips are ambitious in their exploration of the aftermath of their typical spectacle.
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80 - The Quietus
Oczy Mlody re-presents Flaming Lips as a band to be taken seriously once again, despite how much fun they’re clearly having doing it.
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80 - Paste Magazine
The instrumentation here is expectedly psychedelic, anchored in both freeform jams and trip-hop grooves. But somehow the collective makes the two opposing forces, which read like they were picked via pulling genres out of a hat, actually work thanks in no small part to Steven Drozd’s delicate instrumental blending.
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80 - The Guardian
Somewhere in the haze lurks their old knack for writing great, off-kilter pop songs that reflect and escape the bewildering world around us.
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80 - The Skinny
Ok, some of their sillier excesses may jar ever so slightly (unicorns, faeries, witches, wizards and frogs with demon eyes can all be found here, so some strapping yourself in may be required) and fans may well feel the absence of a true pop banger à la Race For The Prize or She Don’t Use Jelly. In every other aspect, however, this is The Flaming Lips on top of their game: refracting the weirdness of the world through a youthful sense of awe and wonder.
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Mick Harvey - Intoxicated Women 2017 Album Review (Critic Reviews)

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock - Based on 5 Critics


80 - Record collector
Like Gainsbourg’s music as a whole, there’s too much going on here to do justice to the collection’s many layers. 
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80 - Mojo
Intoxicated Women makes you fall in love with Gainsbourg and his women all over again. 

80 - Uncut
Following much beauty and polymorphous perversity, the climactic take on Histoire De Melody Nelson's "Cargo Cult" is a fittingly epic finale.

80 - Q Magazine
In short: superb.

70 - Magnet
It's jauntier, if still jaundiced, and contains some of Gainsbourg's best compositions.


Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory 2017 Album Reviews (Critic Reviews)

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Cabaret, Celtic Rock - Based on 7 Critics


80 - Boston Globe
11 Short Stories finds the band serving up pint after pint of a familiar brew--the heady blend of fist-pumping anthems, traditional Irish instrumentation, and scrappy, blue-collar grit that’s made them a household name--while using their distilled strengths to break fresh ground.
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80 - Drowned in Sound
Their output remains honest, unsullied and socially conscious--it’s still got all the bark and bared teeth of a Boston terrier, and the drinking songs are still out in force, but there’s a message of hope at its core that espouses all the values that are held so dear to the contemporary punk scene.
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79 - Paste Magazine
Loss and the possibility of redemption represent the twin themes of pain and glory fueling the Celtic-punk band’s ninth album, a collection of songs by turns bleak and triumphant--and sometimes both at once. 
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70 - Musicomh
Whilst this emotional look back [fourth track Sandlot] might suggest they’ve got one foot in the grave, there’s plenty of fight left yet. In the past, this would have taken the form of furious punk, but this time around the Dropkicks have expanded their sound out into something far grander than anything they’ve attempted before.
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70 - Rock Sound
Replete with ramshackle tales of bar brawls (‘I Had A Hat’) and barely scraping by (‘Sandlot’), this ninth album feels warm and familiar--but there’s more beneath the surface. 
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70 - Classic Rock Magazine
The band venture away from their own back yard for the first time, recording this new album in El Paso. It results in a pleasingly broader palette, from the redneck power pop of Sandlot, to the melodic and bouncy Madness-like closer We’ll Meet Again.
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40 - The Observer
Whether they are covering You’ll Never Walk Alone or rubbishing the single life on Kicked to the Curb (“I ain’t got no honey/ She took all my money”), the music is depressingly rudimentary.
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