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Album Review by Nigel A. Messenger As compilation albums know no boundaries UMTV release another double CD of urban sounds including hi-hop, dancehall and desi beats. If this is your sound then this is an ideal way to gain 41 tracks from an assortment of artists including Sean Paul, Ja Rule and LL Cool Single Review by EDF With an intro featuring various mobile phone ring tones, you would be forgiven for thinking that this track is French until the chorus arrives sung in English. With the best of both worlds, this funky number might actually get played in the UK.
Album Review by EDF Untamed is a Canadian girl group featuring sisters Alithea and Daniella Waters and Kim Moffit. What I had reviewed earlier in the PHASE9 singles section was all well good and there is no doubt that YOU’RE NOT GONNA SCORE, the first single from this album is without doubt a decent Album Review by Mark Bayross Although this seems to have taken a year to come out, a ten-year retrospective of Underworld’s contribution to everything from dance floors to movie soundtracks is more than deserved. The all-conquering Underworld we know now took a while to emerge. Its early incarnation was as a four piece multimedia Music Review by Neil Sadler The 70’s pomp-rock revival continues. This is a piece of joyous summery pop that floats across the ears. Rockier than the Feeling and more musical than Mika, this is a catchy tune. The initially suspect “dance” remix actually sounds quite good and makes you realise what a catchy hook Single Review by Mark Bayross Rolling along on a fuzzy bed of falsetto flourishes and stadium rock bombast, TO DIE FOR has all the makings of a massive chart success – were we still in 1987. Quite why this is becomes a bit clearer on the B-sides, as ballads SO BEAUTIFUL and BACKROOM pull Single Review by Mark Bayross Bristol five piece Undercut ply a neat line in polished rock thrills, and the appallingly-named SOUL FOOD MOTHER soars along on a wave of U2-meets-Deacon Blue AOR bombast that is sure to propel them into the charts. Somehow, though, this comes off as shiny but soulless, and the staccato Album Review by Mark Bayross Opening with a promisingly heavy burst of guitar, the debut album from Bristol’s Undercut hits something of an AOR groove as soon as Johnny Benn’s croaky Gordon Sumner vocals kick in. It’s followed by the beautifully melodic single TO DIE FOR, making for a decent start. After that, the Album Review by Mark Bayross Kent-based UK Crisis comprises the duo of multi-talented Neville Meredith (who, not content with merely being a singer-songwriter-musician and running his own record label Roman Town, has put his background in theatre sound design to good use by making films) and bass player, photographer and former LA Doors drummer EP Review by Mark Bayross UK Crisis come from the musical mecca that is Ashford in Kent, but one listen to this five track EP and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d jumped back to 1989 and found The Shamen larging it in The Hacienda. Despite being released on singer/songwriter Neville Meredith’s own Roman |
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