Album Reviews

Sheffield’s favourite son (sorry Jarvis and Alex!) returns with his seventh solo album, entitled ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge,’ which may be a serious contender to be sitting proudly at the top of several music journalist’s end-of-year album polls come Christmas time.

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Have you ever wanted to listen to a folk opera telling the tale of the life of a 16th century mathematician? No? Yeah? Damon Albarn has decided to make one anyway. Dr Dee is his second Studio album this year. With Gorillaz, the funk super group Rocket Juice and the Moon, the Blur reunion and this, Damon Albarn has been a very busy man.

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Electra Heart is the highly anticipated second album to come from pop siren Marina Diamandis (aka Marina and The Diamonds). The album is an explosion of 12 songs about the side to relationships that, as Marina describes, is “the side that you don’t really like to admit.”

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Blunderbuss is the long awaited, debut solo album by White Stripes front man Jack White. The album offers 13 tracks that according to White “had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas.”

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Early Takes Vol. 1 Is a collection of 10 previously unreleased recordings from Bealtes Guitarist George Harrison who passed away in 2001. All of these tracks are stripped down (mostly acoustic) demos and early takes, most of which would later appear on Harrison’s 1970 album ‘All Things must Pass’.

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