There’s a fine line between happy, sunny guitar pop and the irritating ambitions of another bloody indie band. Generally, New Yorkers The Drums stay on the right line of the sunny, happy sound of summer and nowhere better than on…

After the buzz surrounding Scissor Sister’s debut, their second effort Ta-dah largely came and went without much notice. Therefore, it was right to expect that Jake Shears and his band would pull out all the stops to get back to the top of…

Let’s get one thing clear here; many people will not like this monster of a record. The massive progressive edges and spiky, cut-up industrial barbs of the music, more shards of technology than classic musical notes, combined with M.I.A’s…

Looking at Aguilera’s career it’s worth remembering that when the she joined the New Mickey Mouse Club in 1993, appearing alongside her were future stars Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. My have they come a long way. 40 million album sales into her career…

In the mid-90s, brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey recruited Skye Edwards as vocalist and formed the band Morcheeba. The band’s trip hop influenced music relied heavily on the delectable, silky soul vocals of Edwards…

Canadian songstress Sarah McLachlan returns after seven years with her signature voice very much in good form. Laws Of Illusion is a lush orchestral set of songs about relationships. What makes it compelling is the emotional tug of the…

Famed as much for their ability to spot hip, up and coming new musical acts as much as for their ability to put really consistent sets together, forming wholly worthwhile compilations, Kitsuné are back with Maison 9. This outing…

The Dance is like a breath of fresh air in a market filled with cut-up bleepy and frequently irritating electro. This is not a retro album, it’s thoroughly up to date, though it’s also classically good Faithless music, the sort that no-one’s making any more…

Ok, it goes something like this. Ash formed in Northern Ireland in 1992. Then in 2007 they released Twilight of the Innocents and promptly announced that it would be their last album, but that they were not about to split up. Ash it seems…

Recent runner-up in the BBC’s Sound Of 2010 critics poll, half Greek, half Welsh Marina Diamands delivers another quirky pop offering of the sort we’ve started to expect out of the UK these days…