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Was there ever a bleaker title?
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Imperfect, visceral, exciting and, ultimately, classic.
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A sublime and often astounding debut.
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A sincere and well-meant Christmas gift from one of the purest folk voices we have
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It's a hit and miss rollercoaster
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She still delivers devastating blows of emotion
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Slipway Fires might just be the most hilarious album you'll hear all year.
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A career breakthrough that could take him from cult status to the big time.
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A Hundred Million Suns is so close to being brilliant
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He may yet turn out to be 21st century Britain's very own Gil Scott-Heron.
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Scotland's second city has done it again.
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A collection of thoughtful, catchy and ultimately satisfying songs.
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This was an obvious attempt to 'do a Johnny'...
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This album shows just why Eliza is one of music's, and not just folk's, most important...
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Joan Wasser had plenty to do to equal the brilliance of her debut, but in To Survive,...
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Taken as a collection, Liejacker sounds like a Mary Chapin Carpenter album circa 1996.
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...An essential companion to A Brighter Beat.
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Greatest Hits is neither the best starting point for a bequiffed novice or a true...
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Detours might not just be the sound of an artist returning to her finest form, it...
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The pair have hit on a formula so ferociously simple and utterly addictive.
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Unmistakable originality, glittering musicianship and acres of free thought
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A solid base to build a career on and a wonderful reminder of just how great our home...
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The first contender for hip-hop record of the year has come very early...
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Maybe the transformation was too much for the pair, or, like a butterfly, their life...
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After six albums, you can't help but feel that there's one big in-joke going on and...
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While making perfect sense on screen, the songs make insane bedfellows on record.
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Breathless, for all its ultra-slick production, electro beats and pop hooks, is a...
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There's still a long road ahead for McFly.
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An album capable of gobbling up column inches regardless of the popularity of or media...
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This shows exactly why Heaton and his bandmates have been so successful.
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The fact that Taking Chances is her 34th album speaks for itself.
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Sometimes Aled's control and high standard overwhelm the songs he chooses to sing.
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While Nine Black Alps may not be about to save the musical world, they will definitely...
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Alison Moyet still has one of the most emotive and intoxicating British voices ever.
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If a musical career is a motorway, then Bombshell puts King Creosote into fifth gear...
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Polly Jean returns with a new piano-based direction. Lovely and disturbing in equal...
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Kate Rusby in a wonderful return to form...
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Oh no...not ANOTHER wonderfully intelligent dance duo from the North? Oh yes...
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Fine country stylings from Bolton's latest homegrown talent...
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Manchester's most lived-in band return for another album of melon-twisting.
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Country rock's most unpredictable and prolific artist returns with a career high.
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...It is possibly the most confused album you’ll come across all year.
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...You can't help but think of old Freeborn and wonder whether if he'd been alive to...
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'Cuilidh' is possibly the most aptly-titled album ever...after all, it means 'treasury'.
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...Sticking a smile on your face and a shuffle in your step.
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Expect to see this on the Mercury list come nomination time.
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...The rabid back-beat marries punk with rave and throws you around in a glorious...
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Living With War is another fist in America’s gut.
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Five years is a long time to wait considering the sheer brilliance of 2001's 'Whole...
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She’s produced arguably her best work to date. Normal service has been resumed.
