Articles tagged with alternative

Headlights' debut, "Kill them with Kindness" is a mixed bag of an album. On one hand, it's musically very strong, padding the ground paved by such bands as Stars, the Shins and Spoon (though the fact that these similarities all begin with ‘S' is purely coincidental). However, on the other hand, it's, well, not very memorable. Not one of the songs has you humming along after work after bugging you all day with a nagging chorus like Stars can do, or have that...

It seems recently that everybody here in the UK has been harking on about Richard Ashcroft’s return for a while now since his near-legendary Live8 performance with Coldplay last July. The 35 year old has just released his third solo album, “Keys to the World” which seems to have bought him back from the desert of British music. Famed for his 1997 “Urban Hymns” with his band “The Verve”, Ashcroft has always failed to match its classic status and epic tunes,...