Bitter:(super)Sweet

For too long now, Massive Attack single-handedly ruled the trip-hop scene. And true, they blow your mind away, but it was a fairly easy game for them to share their oligopoly with Portishead and “good-but-not-great” Tircky.

But in 2006, Los Angeles Duo Bitter:Sweet rose up to the challenge. Their August release of The Remix Game is the epitome of mind-fucking-blowing! And not only will trip-hop maniacs get into it, but it will also appeal to Radiohead fans, lounge music aficionados and electro fiends. So shake up the Mojitos, boost the bass in your sound system and pop in their new record, you won’t be deceived…

Welcome the 1990s back into the 20th Century

Cookies is a delicious, feel-good summer record. It’s nothing avant-garde or experimental, but it works. Hell it does more than that, it rocks! Sure you might have heard this type of music a lot, but that’s why it’s called a music genre. But this is more than a simple genre plagiarism, it’s dancing rock, with a glam-trash twist.

From the lipstick graffitied album cover to Jackie McKeown exhaling “my cult status keeps me fucking your wife,” the Scottish newbies take you on a thrill back to the past decade of sex, drugs and total decadence. Let’s face it, who’s ever had enough?

Send it back to the Editors!

What drugs the editors were on during the making of their new album An End Has A Start, I don't want to know, but I can tell they were cheap. This is the only reasonable conclusion I can take after having put myself through
their new record three times already!

It's such a poor follow up to The Back Room, I don't even understand how anyone let them release this! Well maybe I'm being a bit harsh because I had such a high expectation of them. Up until now, there was no song of theirs that really bothered me quite as much as most of the songs on this album. It sounds heavily "popified", entirely soulless and cruelly commercialized. Come on chaps, you can do better than this!