Album Reviews

Sir Paul McCartney’s ‘Kisses on the Bottom’ album features covers of jazz standards written by classic American songwriters such as Irving Berlin and Frank Loesse. The album is therefore inspired by a bygone era with piano, sensitive acoustic playing, and lush arrangements filling McCartney’s fifteenth solo studio album.

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A sexy femme fatale/bad girl character called Lana Del Rey has got the entire world flummoxed. Are her kissable lips real? Is she really a bad girl? Or is she trying to disguise her posh background? A singer hasn’t come under this much scrutiny since a weird bloke called David Bowie claimed that he was the human manifestation of an alien called Ziggy Stardust and started wearing frocks.

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Leonard Cohen must spend his time touring and recording rather than relaxing due to a former manager stealing from his retirement fund. Hence we have new album ‘Old Ideas’ – which is the legendary songwriter’s first offering since 2004′s ‘Dear Heather’ and his twelfth studio album since 1967.

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New York synth-pop indie outfit Chairlift release their third album Something, but now seem less and less likey for the band to break through into the mainstream with this good (but fairly average) collection of new songs. However, this album that will probably delight any keyboard-kissing synth lovers amongst you.

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Have you ever wanted a mixture of Britpop, Grunge and Razorlight? Not really, no. But the idea sounds good doesn’t it? Err, not really. Sorry. Well, these Tribes lads are a trendy Camden band who cite Nirvana, Pixies, Pavement and REM as their influences. But Electric Banana writers would bet all our whole life savings that Blur and Suede are hiding in the boy’s CD collections somewhere! The result is not unlike Razorlight.

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