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May 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

We Need To Not Talk About Muse (Again)

I’d rather not talk about Muse – it’s far more interesting than, say, talking about Muse. But there was a handful of requests for a review of the new album back then in 2015. Then I was told I had to justify feeling that way…vitriol, I was told, was not insight. Fairplay. Here goes: If […]
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September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Tom The Lion: Sleep

Tom The Lion Sleep Wrasse Records Tom The Lion – what a shit name. Here’s new album, Sleep – and it’s a bit too Coldplay to get the big tick, but on the Coldplay-spectrum it’s down at that almost-acceptable area, early-Turin Brakes, that sort of thing… There’s also clearly been some inspiration from those new-fangled […]
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May 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Coldplay: Ghost Stories

Coldplay Ghost Stories Parlaphone/Atlantic March 20, 2014 Dear Gwyn – my little Sky Full of Stars, I think the new album is going to be great. I really do. It’s probably all been worth it – I think we’re about to be taken seriously again. I really do. For a start, it’s the closest in […]
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March 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Elbow: The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Fiction There was a time when I liked Elbow – that first album was a nice surprise; especially given it seemed to come from nowhere but in fact the band had been at it a decade or so. The second was a total change-up from the first […]
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December 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Freelance Whales: Diluvia

Freelance Whales Diluvia Mom + Pop Music Who has time for a “grower” these days? Just when I thought I didn’t – I’ve been working through as many albums as I can this year, finding so many to love too – turns out I do actually. You see I keep coming back to Diluvia by […]
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November 15, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

Coldplay: Live 2012

Coldplay Live 2012 EMI Well, you could say that this “endearingly captures the energy of the world’s biggest band” – as indeed this person did but with all that neon/fluoro to distract it’s easy to forget that the world’s “biggest band” got that way by simply writing a bunch of old Radiohead songs, new U2 […]
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