NME Reviews

Album Review: Florence And The Machine - 'Ceremonials'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:42:19 +0100

Flo's world is getting bigger, brighter and richer by the minute

Album Review: Justice - 'Audio Video Disco'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:26:56 +0100

Weighty, deep, imaginitive

Album Review: Summercamp - 'Welcome To Condale'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:14:04 +0100

They're back to (re)make hand-holdy couple-pop their own

Album Review: Lou Reed & Metallica - 'Lulu'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:59:57 +0100

It's a surprising triumph

Album Review: Professor Green - 'At Your Inconvenience'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:49:37 +0100

The 'Prankster Green' image is getting old

Album Review: Buraka Som Sistema - 'Komba'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:03:11 +0100

Clanking rhythms, bleeps and whistles

Album Reviews: Tom Waits - 'Bad As Me'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:53:50 +0100

It's not up there with the best

Album Review: Bonnie Prince Billy - 'Wolfroy Goes To Town'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:42:14 +0100

An absolute, unerring joy

Album Review: The Miserable Rich - 'Miss You In The Days'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:30:50 +0100

No way near as ghostly as it is made out to be

Album Review: Baby Dee - 'Baby Dee Goes Down To Amsterdam'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:08:27 +0100

Bringing cheer to the sleaziest of backstreets

Album Review: Rizzle Kicks - 'Stereo Typical'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:54:04 +0100

It's a laugh, but sometime that's what you're looking for

Album Review: King Midas Sound - 'Without you'

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:17:23 +0100

A remixed version of his debut 'Waiting For You'

Live Review: Noel Gallagher

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:54:05 +0100

Dublin Olympia Theatre, Sunday 23rd October

This Week's Singles Reviewed (31/10/11)

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:23:57 +0100

Friends, Gold Panda, Dog Is Dead

Grimes - 'Oblivion'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:07:35 +0100

It's of brilliant otherworldliness

The Ting Tings - 'Hang It Up'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:58:08 +0100

They've gone rock, and it's kind of fun

Karen O - 'Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:00 +0100

Beautiful space-rock atmospherics

War Of Words - 'Battleground'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:49:14 +0100

Exhilarating and weirdly mournful

T-Pain ft. Wiz Khalifa + Lily Allen - '5 O’Clock'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:46:10 +0100

This is going to be massive

Frankie And The Heartstrings - 'Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light)'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:43:19 +0100

Perfectly executed knockabout indie pop

Bleeding Knees Club - 'Teenage Girls'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:38:28 +0100

An ephemeral garage-rock stomp

The Horrors - 'Best Thing I Never Had'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:23:50 +0100

The best form of psychedelic shoegaze

Mazzy Star - 'Common Burn/Lay Myself Down'

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:02:11 +0100

A love-drunk, reverby ballad

Album Review: Coldplay - 'Mylo Xyloto'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:50:31 +0100

The top floor production can't hide the conservative tendencies

Album Review: DRC Music - 'Kinshasa One Two'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:30:37 +0100

It leaves you wanting more. Mission accomplished.

Album Review: The Field - 'Looping State Of Mind'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:16:40 +0100

The very definition of forward-minded music

Album Review: Active Child - 'You Are All I See'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:04:40 +0100

A stand out bedroom producer

Album Review: Gary Numan - 'Dead Son Rising'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:53:07 +0100

A collection of revamped offcuts

Album Review: Walls - 'Coracle'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:38:23 +0100

A record of luminous soundscapes

Album Review: Brian Wilson - 'In the Key Of Disney'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:21:12 +0100

A joyful Wilson performs Disney's finest

Album Review: Jane's Addiction - 'The Great Escape Artist'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:04:59 +0100

A pop-wolf in rock-sheep clothing

Album Review: Piney Gir - 'Geronimo!'

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:46:24 +0100

It's kind of like gonorrhoea

This Week's Singles Reviewed (24/10/11)

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:45:16 +0100

Rizzle Kicks, Tribes, The Kills

Live Review: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:43:59 +0100

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, LA/The Glass House, Pomona

Coldplay feat. Rihanna, 'Princess Of China' - Review

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:23:58 +0100

The latest track to emerge from 'Mylo Xyloto'

This Week's Singles Reviewed (17/10/11)

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:06:16 +0100

Connan Mockasin, Bombay Bicycle Club, Toddla T

Album Review: Veronica Falls - 'Veronica Falls'

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:56:45 +0100

Their influences might be all too familiar, but the spectre-loving twee team still make a good fist of it on their debut

Album Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:39:02 +0100

The Chief adjusts to being commander of no man but himself on a masterfully relaxed solo debut

Album Review: Spectrals - 'Bad Penny'

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:25 +0100

Yet another Yorkshireman proves adept at writing songs about sorrow that are strangely uplifting

Album Review: M83 - 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming'

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:05:31 +0100

A grandiose double-album paean to childhood dreaming that only occasionally needs the naughty step