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Westwood: The Jump Off by Various Artists

Review by sound.and.vision

Let me get this off my chest first of all, Tim Westwood is a twat. Tim Westwood, or just Westwood, was BBC's "main man" for the world of hip-hop and reggae in the early 2000s; it wouldn't be until 2002 that they would properly embrace this side of mu...

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Live at Klub 007 by Gallon Drunk

Review by Keira Burgess

Gallon Drunk's James Johnston is a busy boy. A member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds since 1994, he's also spent part of this year touring with Faust, while bandmate Ian White has been working with Lydia Lunch. Saxophonist Terry Edwards too has done the ro...

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Graduation by Kanye West

Review by nexi7

love it one of the best albums of all time

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Spaceball: The American Radio Sessions by Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Review by Jon Lusk

Subtitled The American Radio Sessions, this double-disc set collects largely acoustic versions of classic T. Rex songs performed in 1971 and 1972, when the original glam rock pixie was trying to bust his way into America. Both the poor recording qual...

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Bass Generation by Basshunter

Review by Al Fox

Perhaps surprisingly to some, Bass Generation marks ten years in the career of Swedish producer Jonas Altberg, whose arduous brand of house under the Basshunter moniker has only fallen on mainstream UK ears since early 2008. Yet he's risen through th...

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Mirrored by Battles

Review by P J Lucas

It's long been my conviction that writing about music is one of the most widespread follies of modern times. Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother descri...