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Album Review: O’ Death

By Angeline Liles ⋅ October 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin]
[Label: City Slang Records]

This is a troupe of musicians that certainly don’t hold back. ‘Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin’ is the third album from O’Death, and is a fiery display of the punk-folk, jazz and bluegrass sound concocted by five blokes from New York. Accompanied by banjo, fiddle, ukulele, piano, […]

Album Review: The Datsuns

By Danny Sambuca ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ One comment

[Album: Head Stunts]
[Label: Cooking Vinyl]

New Zealand’s finest scuzz-guitar exports The Datsuns mark a return to the music world’s buxom bosom with their brand new album ‘Head Stunts’. Since being heralded as the ‘future of rock’ from various quarters after their s/t debut album ripped the rock scene a new bum-hole back in 2002, things have […]

Album Review: Ra Ra Riot

By Angeline Liles ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: The Rhumb Line]
[Label: Barsuk/V2 Records]

Listening to this debut album from Ra Ra Riot is a bit similar to what I imagine attending an audio carnival would sound like. It’s a joyously frolicking diversion from the mundaneity of these autumnal grey skies. Upbeat tracks fleshed out beautifully with majestic cellos and violins, smoothly operated guitars […]

Album Review: Funeral For A Friend

By John Skibeat ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Memory And Humanity]
[Label: Join Us Records]

Any fan that fondly recalls Funeral For A Friend‘s awesome debut album, ‘Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation’, will be interested to learn that this, their fourth effort, will be released exactly five years ago… to the day. No coincidence it seems with drummer Ryan Richards claiming that the […]

Album Review: You Me At Six

By Joseph Stephens ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Take Off Your Colours]
[Label: Slam Dunk Records]

If you’ve taken even a cursory glance at the cover of any big name, “alternative” music magazines over the last year or so, the chances are you’ll have heard of You Me At Six. Tours with some of the biggest bands in the ever-overcrowded pop-punk genre (Elliot Minor […]

Album Review: These Arms Are Snakes

By John Skibeat ⋅ October 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Tail Swallower And Dove]
[Label: Suicide Squeeze]

Formed from the ashes of mathcore mentalists Botch and post-hardcore’s Kill Sadie, Seattle-based These Arms Are Snakes throw the immovable object against the unstoppable force, as scorching punk unpredictability meets post-rock riffage, deep within dark languishing walls of noise. This is their third album release and it comes after […]

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: Amon Amarth

By John Skibeat ⋅ October 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Twilight Of The Thunder God]
[Label: Metal Blade]

Amon Amarth, the Swedish melodic death metallists, are synonymous with ridiculous concepts - what else would you expect from a band that matches the Elvish name for Mount Doom in Tolkien’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’. However, when they start releasing “Bobble-Head” figurines of themselves you suspect a line […]

Album Review: The Vines

By John Skibeat ⋅ October 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: Melodia]
[Label: Cooking Vinyl]

2002 was a great year for The Vines. It saw them release their debut album, ‘Highly Evolved’, and it’s powerful anthemic quality saw them shift nearly 2 million copies. That got them lumped in with The White Stripes and The Strokes, and subsequently Kings Of Leon, as pioneers in heralding the raging […]

Album Review: Ehnahre

By Mike Copus ⋅ October 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Album: The Man Closing Up]
[Label: Shellshock]

For those who couldn’t quite get their heads around Kayo Dot’s ambient, offbeat passages on ‘Blue Lambency Downwards’ you may find solace in Ehnahre’s rougher, heavier sound. Consisting of ex-members of Kayo Dot, ‘The Man Closing Up’ is a grimly titled journey through erratic time signatures and a patchwork of […]