Reviews / Album

Keep You Close is a lush and sophisticated effort, beginning with the gorgeous strings underpinning the opening title track.

On their debut album they’ve lived up to the promises presented by both their live performance and earlier seven-inch singles.

Still, the third disc opens up a bounty of overlooked treats. On Big Meat Show, Hyde gets horny over Skyscraper style beats while...

As such, this CD sucks, only acting as a good comparison device to their just-released Anthology.

Like sticking your finger in a power outlet, Grimes has a kind of electricity to her that is somewhat shocking. Pleasantly so.

It’s amazing how a band, whose primary subject matter has been the same for eight albums, can still produce fresh and original music.

An artist with a cultured sense of aesthetics and a masterly voice, Tramp nonetheless confirms that Van Etten needs to fine-tune her writing before she earns her gold card.

Other tracks though are pure Clark, such as the crazed rambling lead on Tooth Moves and the all-round intricate production that would take a reverse engineer months to unravel at 1,000 frames per second

Xiu Xiu is definitely an acquired taste and if you’ve not been drawn into its dark and twisted fantasy yet