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Jam Vinall

Jam Vinall has written 10 posts for Sonic Dice

Album Review: Devil’s Gift

By Jam Vinall ⋅ November 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Devils Gift]
[Label: Tiefdruck-Musik]

I bet there are some people out there that don’t think of the lord of the underworld as being such a generous fellow – let’s face it, he often gets a bit of a bad rap. Devil’s Gift are here to show us otherwise. Led by rock vixen Lennon Murphy collaborating with […]

Album Review: Lovvers

By Jam Vinall ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Think]
[Label: Wichita]

Punk is a genre that demands the spotlight. In this world filled with cheap thrills and fleeting highs, the human attention span is understandably short and getting shorter everyday. Lovvers have taken note of this and abide to an appropriate template rigidly with this collection of tracks, most of which are little over […]

EP Review: Tiny Spark

By Jam Vinall ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[EP: Alaska]
[Label: The Animal Farm]

The ‘Alaska’ EP sees promising new indie band Tiny Spark put down their debut tracks after recently having gained fans by performing to sell-out crowds, including most recently at Hi-Fi Festival alongside the likes of Hard-Fi and Super Furry Animals. On top of that, the guys were also nominated for an […]

Album Review: Finger Eleven

By Jam Vinall ⋅ October 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Them vs. You vs. Me]
[Label: Wind-up records]

Just four seconds into ‘Them vs. You vs. Me’ the meaty power-chords kick in and are immediately backed up with funky high licks and pounding bass which sets the tone for Finger Eleven’s fourth album perfectly. Yes, ‘Paralyzer’ is a real corker of an opening track and the […]

Gig Review: Disturbed + Shinedown

By Jam Vinall ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Venue: Brixton Academy, London]
[Date: 4 October 2008]

As Shinedown (3/6) took to the stage, Brixton Academy was filling up nicely. One thing to say about this band is that they’re good fun to watch. In this age of cordless instruments, bands finally seem to be realising that we are there for the music, but we’re also […]

Album Review: Falconer

By Jam Vinall ⋅ September 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Among Beggars and Thieves]
[Label: Metal Blade]

Falconer come across as a troubled band that seem increasingly uncomfortable with the music they’ve been playing over their last few records. They’re open in admitting their attempt to recapture the sound they left behind way back in 2002 after ‘Chapters From A Vale Thorn’, after which their fans […]

Album Review: Iced Earth

By Jam Vinall ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: The Crucible Of Man - Something Wicked, Part 2]
[Label: SPV]

It’s easy to suggest that song-writing these days is becoming slightly predictable. It seems we either have idiots like Usher telling us how much they’d like to “make love in the club” or politically-charged protest artists still thinking they can change the world. Sometimes you […]

Album Review: The Safe Passage Clause

By Jam Vinall ⋅ August 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

[Album: Titans Put Down Your Swords]
[Label: Crane Kiss Cobra]

The Safe Passage Clause had a lot going for them before I even heard a note of their music. The group formed in Seattle, where front man Chris Morales eventually settled after playing as part of various projects elsewhere in the world. As the birthplace of some […]

Album Review: Hammerfall

By Jam Vinall ⋅ July 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Masterpieces]
[Label: Nuclear Blast]

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that musical masterpieces should never be covered. If All Saints metaphorically murdered ‘Under the Bridge’, then G4 went at ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with a machete and a blow torch. And don’t even get me started on Rolf Harris’ wobble-board-tastic version of ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Not that […]

Album Review: Coldplay

By Jam Vinall ⋅ July 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends]
[Label: Capitol]

After their blinding debut ‘Parachutes’ all the way back at the turn of the millennium, critics everywhere were wondering whether Coldplay could match the high standards they set for themselves on their subsequent release, or whether they would succumb to “second album syndrome” and soon […]

 

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