[rating=5]
Released June 19, 2011
Often eccentric but brilliant Fiona Apple releases a startingly new album.

“The resulting album is beautifully bare, almost live sounding in places, allowing you to focus on the confessional lyrics.”

[rating=5]
Gabby Young and Other Animals, June 13, 2012

The launch event for ‘The Band Called Out For More’ by Gabby Young and Other Animals played the album as it should be heard: live, loud and lush.

“As the frenetic gypsy, circus folk of the opening song came to an explosive end, I had one thought: ‘This is how to launch an album!’.”

[rating=4]
Released June 18, 2012
Gabby Young & Other Animals bring to life the magical side of the circus, with lilting waltzes and haunting brass.

“Listening to them conjures up images of 1920s sideshows, painted clowns playing brass instruments, tattooed and bearded ladies, bikini clad showgirls breathing fire and high wire walking contortionists.”

[rating=3]
Released July 15, 2011
An engaging album, a wonderful voice, seamless, although perhaps a little too seamless.

“For the folk virgins, the roster serves as a great introduction, but for those that know their folk, there are very few surprises here, even the contemporary numbers will be well known.”

[rating=5]
Karin Park, May 30, 2012

Little Bastard falls for Karin Park, and finds that she is not just a singer but a force of nature.

“This is how it must have felt to see Bjork in the mid ’90s – urgent music with one foot in leftfield and the other foot stamping on the mainstream’s face.”

[rating=4]
Released May 28, 2012
The fourth album from the Scissor Sisters, says Little Bastard, is a return to form. For the most part.

“The more popular they got, or so it seemed, the more they sounded like Elton John and the more they became the ideal band for gay men and middle aged women.”

[rating=4]
Released May 21, 2012
This EP is, says Little Bastard, pure gypsy-punk-rock’n’roll classic, matching central American sounds with contemporary pop, jazz and even punk vocals to create an exciting melting pot of sounds.

“It makes me want to don a teddy boy suit and Mexican candy skull makeup while blasting this song out of the window of my Chevy! Yes, it’s that good it makes me want to learn to drive!”

[rating=5]
Hunx And His Punx, May 12, 2012

Little Bastard gets manhandled at Hunx’s Shacklewell Arms gig… and he liked it!

“Hunx could give Jake Shears and Ana Matronic a lesson in stagecraft and musicianship, and would probably scare the shit out of Rufus Wainwright, and that’s right up my dark, beer stained alley..”

[rating=4]
Released April 2, 2012
A perfect album for a summer’s night: musically introspective and yet headily uplifting. That’s Wonky by Orbital.

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“Authentic dance music is hard to come by, so it’s comforting that, in time for summer, we finally have a dance album that’s far more than just filler. All hail the return of Orbital!”

[rating=5]
Released May 21, 2012

The debut album from Maggie & Martin, pop legends in their own right, is refreshing and unique.

Union is an album of songs that are deeply passionate, sincere and energetic, managing to be both innovative and to channel the cream of the 80s.