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18/06/08	Norman Records: Seriously hook-laden rock music	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
06/06/08	Musica Popolare: Clone Quartet - Well Oiled Machine	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
21/05/08	The Dreaded Press: "Fighting With Wire are full of the wasps-in-the-trousers get-up-and-go that comes from throwing your heart and mind into doing something as best you can"	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
16/05/08	The Sun - Something For The Weekend: Sweeping choruses and riffs that pack plenty of punch	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
01/05/08	Rock Sound: Truly the leaders of the post-punk pack	Album Review: An Emergency - Wrecked Angles	view item
05/04/08	New Noise: As good as anything Dave Grohl’s men have produced in recent years	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
03/04/08	Music Towers: wonderfully beefy	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
01/04/08	BBC NI Across The Line: it rocks in a severe and jagged fashion	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
01/04/08	Hard Rock House: an excellent debut	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
28/03/08	Angry Ape: Fighting With Wire have finally officially arrived	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
27/03/08	Musica Popolare: "Well Oiled Machine" è un lp lindo e ben costruito, peccato che appare decisamente privo di passione emotiva.	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
19/03/08	Impact Magazine: 5/5: All in all a musical tour de force which will have you convulsed in a paroxysm of wrath, tears and glory	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
14/03/08	Subba-Cutcha: A rousing debut from the Derry trio	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
10/03/08	Drowned In Sound: 8/10: Perhaps the time is finally right for Fighting With Wire to take centre-stage	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
10/03/08	In The News: A frenetic and buzz-paced collection	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
10/03/08	Kerrang!: KKKK - As debuts go, this is an absolute corker	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
10/03/08	Road Records: Extra heavy Foo Fighters with tons of added punk rock attitude	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
10/03/08	Sound Of Violence: 4.5/5 - [FWW] propose l’un des meilleurs albums, car complet et personnel, de ce début d’année	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
08/03/08	Music News: Man vs Monster is an ear splitting and controlled triumph	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
01/03/08	Rock Sound: 8/10: Dangerous...devastatingly so	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
01/03/08	Alternative Ulster: 9/10: A huge-sounding, balls-to-the-wall guitar record at a time when weve never needed one more	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
22/02/08	Organ Magazine: Intelligent indie guitar rock with something to hang on to	Album Review: Fighting With Wire - Man Vs Monster	view item
22/01/08	Norman Records: Seriously, the only person who wins here is the punter getting that much tunage for less than a fiver. It defies economics	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #9	view item
15/01/08	Room 13: A glorious marriage of electro fuzz with sugar-sweet pop melodies	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer (Reissue)	view item
09/01/08	Fun Fun Fun: Albums Of 2007: Number 4	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
09/01/08	Alternative Ulster: AU Albums of 2007: Number 2	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
31/12/07	Sound Of Violence: Une dimension électro très originale	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
24/12/07	Sweeping The Nation: Sweeping The Nation Albums Of 2007: Number 9	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
03/12/07	This Is Fake DIY: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
03/12/07	The Plastic Ashtray: "the pop stamina and song writing chic to impress even the most stubborn muso"	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
03/12/07	BBC Across The Line: Clone Quartet have taken a wide tangent, back to the song, to the squelchy emotions, the fuzz and the fever	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
03/12/07	iShotTheDeputy: electronic + fab vocals + some screaming + catchy tunes + noise = Sheer and utter genius.	Album Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine	view item
01/10/07	Miwsig: If Pavement at their best had embraced a hip hop/rock fusion...	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
07/08/07	Q: A fiercely intelligent peice of work	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
24/07/07	The Plastic Ashtray: Backlash Cop is a bold step in a great new direction	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
17/07/07	Kerrang!: 4/5 - Dripping with fervent soul... Backlash Cop is a brave and rewarding departure	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
17/07/07	Miwsig: Blasting their way to glory with the most poetic of punk sentiments	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
17/07/07	Teletext: 7/10 - Whatever style they take on, it’s assimilated with a breakneck intensity	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
15/07/07	The Runout Groove: The sort of joyful and energetic music that really exists outside of all audience, industry and scene expectation	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
03/07/07	Atomic Duster: 10/10 - Somehow JPL have achieved a hat trick of beautifuly diverse and exciting long players.	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
03/07/07	Drowned In Sound: 9/10 - A magnificent piece of work	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
20/06/07	The Line Of Best Fit: Their most consistent work to date and yet still sees them stretch their musical muscle	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
20/06/07	Ciao: Let Fantastic People be Fantastic	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
17/06/07	Subbacultcha: 5/5 - Jetplane Landing have just blown everyone else off of the map with a genius concept album...	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
17/06/07	Alternative Ulster: 4.5/5 - 35 minutes of frenetic and funky musical insanity that none of their peers would even dream of	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
17/06/07	Sweeping The Nation: A spectacular development and probably the standout full-on rock record of the first half of 2007	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
15/06/07	Angry Ape: Lofts the flag high for the cause of the independent artist	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
15/06/07	Glasswerk: Defiance, empiricism and gnarl	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
13/06/07	The Downloader: A sublime debut record	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
13/06/07	Tangents: Contemporary guitar rock music doesn’t get any better than this	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
10/06/07	Rock Sound: 8/10 - The sound of a band in peak form	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
22/05/07	Big Cheese: 4/5 - New, exciting, musically incredible and politically fervent, so it's near on perfect	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop	view item
21/05/07	Drowned In Sound: 8/10 - Welcome to a harmony-led paradise...	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
19/05/07	Alternative Ulster: One of the finest, self-assured debuts you’re likely to hear this year. Get ready to fall in love.	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
18/05/07	Playlouder: 4/5 - Perfectly walks the line between sexiness and innocence	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
17/05/07	Comfort Comes: 8/10 - Brilliant and refreshing	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
17/05/07	Boomkat: Sounds like the kind of raw American songcraft of Paul Westerberg	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
14/05/07	Tangents: There is something so magically perfect in those songs	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
14/05/07	Music News: A debut album Paul Westerburg would be proud of	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
14/05/07	Sweeping The Nation: Weezer, Superchunk-esque power-pop outfit reimagining a David Lynch soundtrack	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
14/05/07	No Rock And Roll Fun: a David Lynch soundtrack for a film even he might be a little scared of	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
14/05/07	Road Records: The real emphasis of the album is pure fun	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
08/05/07	Obscure Sound: The Young Playthings: The Pipettes Male Counterparts?	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
29/04/07	Sound Of The Suburbs: Anyone know who invented love? They have a hell of a lot to answer for!	Album Review: The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?	view item
26/04/07	Plan B: When bands sound like they're living in the wrong continent, the strange becomes alluring	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
21/03/07	Drowned In Sound: 8/10 - Pop Disco for Electro Punks	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
21/03/07	Drowned In Sound: Oppenheimer have been described as ‘Pop Disco for Electro Punks’...	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
01/03/07	Rock Sound: 8/10 - Fantastic fuzzy noise	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
23/09/06	BBC Northern Ireland: An electro blast that should keep you smiling throughout summer and even beyond that	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
23/09/06	Remix Mag: A sweet ass-beating	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
23/09/06	Copacetic Zine: Fuzzed-out guitars, and breathy, youthful vocals	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
23/09/06	Amplifier Magazine: The manipulative songwriting smarts of Daft Punk with the elegant arrangements of The Postal Service	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
23/09/06	RetroLowFi: I am still having to check those liner notes to ensure that, yes, there are only two people at the helm	Album Review: Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer	view item
18/05/06	New Noise: More fantastically random than the sum of their parts	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
07/04/06	Metal Hammer: 8/10 - Scottish hopefuls pack a punch	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
23/03/06	Drowned in Sound: 8/10. Awesome. Brilliant.	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
22/03/06	Big Cheese: 5/5 - This is an easy nomination for album of the year	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
21/03/06	Road Records: the production of the album is truly superb	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
15/03/06	NME: 7/10. A minor angst-punk miracle	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
08/03/06	Kerrang!: KKKK: Scots quartet Fickle Public come on like early Idlewild mixed with prime Fugazi	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
07/02/06	Rock Sound: Album Of The Month: March 2006	Album Review: Fickle Public - Bucko	view item
18/01/06	Clash Magazine: The Playstation hasnt won yet!	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
16/01/06	Comfort Comes: A new PSB is always cause for celebration	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
04/01/06	Kerrang!: Budget priced new band compilation	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
15/12/05	Sound Of Violence: La qualité évidente de quelques futurs lauréats est une excuse tout à fait suffisante pour investir £5	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
14/12/05	Music-News.com: It could be the best five pounds you'll spend all Xmas	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
09/12/05	Drowned In Sound: Another interstellar cast of upcoming hellraisers	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
08/12/05	Kissing Just For Practise: A supreme taster of what you need to hear	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
05/12/05	To Hell With: Much the same deal as the last 6 really. Which is to say, a damn good one	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
05/12/05	Between Planets: Many of these bands should have great futures ahead	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
03/12/05	The Independent: Encapsulates very accurately the new breed of bands playing... right now	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
03/12/05	Planet Sound: Anyone from any genre will find something to cherish. 8/10	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
01/12/05	Airwaves Back: Everyone needs to hear this	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
29/11/05	Big Cheese: The best of this season's talent	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
15/11/05	The Stereo Effect: This really a public service with infallibly noble intentions	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
07/11/05	Rock Sound: One fine compilation	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #7	view item
28/03/05	IndieVille: I'm looking forward to number six! Rating: 85%	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #5	view item
20/03/05	Comfort Comes: Fine new music from all over the globe.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #6	view item
20/03/05	Planet Sound: Exemplary talent spotting.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #6	view item
01/03/05	Alternative Ulster: Just buy it. It's that simple.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #6	view item
01/03/05	Drowned In Sound: So, should you buy their latest release? Of course you should! Allow us to convince you...	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #6	view item
01/03/05	Kissing Just For Practice: How did you first discover your favourite band?	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #6	view item
20/09/04	Drowned In Sound: A f**king must-buy compilation	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #5	view item
20/09/04	Slightly Confusing To A Stranger: This is love kids.	Album Review	view item
20/07/04	Rocksound: The Best New Band Party In The World...Ever!	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #4	view item
20/07/04	Artrocker: The public needs a service like this.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #4	view item
20/07/04	To Hell With: A truly remarkable and applaudable job.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #4	view item
20/07/04	Planet Sound: It's a fantastic public service.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #4	view item
20/07/04	Leaked Albums: If you do one good deed this week, month or year then go out and buy this record.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #4	view item
20/04/04	Splendid Zine: When is a sampler not a sampler?	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #3	view item
20/04/04	Sound Of Violence: Il y a peu les meilleurs pour dÃ©nicher les futurs talents!	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #2	view item
20/12/03	Rock Midgets: You need Jetplane Landing in your life	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/12/03	Rock Feedback: Our best kept secret also happens to be one of our brightest hopes	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/12/03	Southwark Student Press: They could be heading for greatness.	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/12/03	Fishbowl: All you want to do is press play again	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/11/03	Atomic Duster: Jetplane Landing have once again created a spectacular masterpiece	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/11/03	Glasswerk: Buy it… now!	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/11/03	Drowned In Sound: The sound of a band finding their voice	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
23/10/03	The Irish News: Striking Sparks	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
03/10/03	Comes With A Smile #13: Within six months half of these acts will be headline news.	Album Review - Public Service Broadcast #1	view item
03/10/03	Comes With A Smile: I promise you; within six month half of these acts will be headline news	Album Review: V Formation	view item
01/10/03	Backlash Magazine: We should feel privileged to be allowed to listen	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Logo: Jetplane Landing are, simply, fuckin' awesome. Buy this album NOW	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Teletext: Delve into a smart LP worth a million of Jet	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Time Out: They've had enough	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Metal Hammer: Anglo/Irish post-hardcore outfit unleash genius sophomore effort	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Hot Press: As soon as it ends, you’ll find yourself reaching for the replay button.	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Kerrang!: Leaves you gasping for breath and rushing to join the cause. Brilliant.	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	NME: A convincingly crunchy bid for the title of Number One UK Extremo Heroes 2003	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Bang Magazine: Jetplane Landing have no reason not to be stars	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
01/10/03	Do Something Pretty: Like The Misfits playing Beach Boys covers	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark	view item
02/07/02	The War Against Silence 388: Loud Family half lapsing into the John Spencer Blues Explosion	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/07/02	The Fly: Prosiming punk-rock racket from Anglo/Irish bunch	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/03/02	Comes With A Smile: Destined to inspire their own imitators before long	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/03/02	Playlouder: A smile is often all we need to fall in love	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/03/02	BBC Radio Ulster: Across The Line: But this is intelligent, unique music, beyond trends.	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/03/02	Rock Sound: The top of the class is surely in sight	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item
01/03/02	Kerrang!: Quirkily rocking Anglo-Irish guitar pop genius	Album Review: Jetplane Landing - Zero For Conduct	view item