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Lee Smart

Lee Smart has written 9 posts for Sonic Dice

Gig Review: Lykke Li + Micachu

By Lee Smart ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

[Venue: Scala, London]
[Date: 1 October 2008]

Lykke Li is one singer-songwriter that over the past 11 months I’ve grown to love more than a Jalfrezi and a pint of Cobra. Her past singles “Little Bit, I’m Good I’m Gone” and “Dance Dance Dance!” showed the masses not only is she talented, but that her live performances […]

Album Review: Bomb The Bass

By Lee Smart ⋅ October 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Future Chaos]
[Label: !K7]

Now, when I got into writing for SonicDice, I imagined that the material I would get to review would be at best, small time artists, trying to make their mark on smaller or newer reviewing sites to gain a slow but steady critical success. However, it never crossed my mind that I […]

Album Review: Bloc Party

By Lee Smart ⋅ September 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Intimacy]
[Label: Wichita]

Coming off the back of the most successful year of the band’s career, that ended with the release of one of the year’s biggest indie dance tracks and the bands biggest UK tour to date, Bloc Party entered 2008 as one of the biggest rising bands in the world - their Last.FM stats […]

Album Review: Renfro

By Lee Smart ⋅ August 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Mathematics]
[Label: Meltwater Records]

I’m sure many of you by now must be familiar with the unmasked Dubstep prodigy of Burial, aka Will Bevan, and I’m also very sure all of you are familiar with the name Thom Yorke. However, I doubt you’d ever thought of a scenario where the talents of the two men are […]

Album Review: Hawnay Troof

By Lee Smart ⋅ August 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Islands of Ayle]
[Label: Southern]

I’m sure all of you understanding people out there will appreciate how I feel right now. Waking up from a heavy night of drinking in London, with the biggest hangover of my life and an imminent 4pm-2am shift at work starting in a few hours, to find that my first promos […]

Album Review: CSS

By Lee Smart ⋅ August 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Donkey]
[Label: Warner]

Going boldly where no band has gone before, CSS showed in 2006 that you can sing songs about “hot, hot sex” and still come out the other end smelling of roses. However, in 2007 it seemed the media and the fans had got caught up amidst the sparkly cat suits and onstage naughtiness, […]

Single Review: Natty

By Lee Smart ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Single: July]
[Label: Atlantic]

‘July’ is the second single from modern reggae-soul singer-songwriter Natty who, since appearing on a summer tour with Hard-Fi and Kate Nash and on “Late With Jools Holland” prior to the release of his debut single, ‘Cold Town’, has started to stir somewhat of a fuss about his new way of doing things […]

Gig Review: Lightspeed Champion + Pete And The Pirates

By Lee Smart ⋅ July 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Venue: Camden Koko, London]
[Date: 8 July 2008]

The eighth night of the iTunes London Festival 2008 has brought together two of this years’ oddest, but brightest, new bands in Lightspeed Champion, with support from Reading-based five-piece Pete & The Pirates.
Pete & The Pirates include a set-up of bassist and backing vocalist Pete Cattermoul, drummer Jonny Sanders, […]

Album Review: The Fratellis

By Lee Smart ⋅ June 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Here We Stand]
[Label: Island Records]

You’ve just risen to fame in an instant by becoming one of the biggest bands in the country (after selling one and a half million copies of your debut album worldwide) and you’ve just convinced almost everyone in your native country that Franz Ferdinand were just a phase (because suddenly […]

 

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