My French is pretty rubbish these days, but I think ‘La Chaleur’ translates as ‘Heat’.  Highly apt for a band who, when myself and two other E&D stalwarts were lucky enough to catch them live, were sweating so much one of them looked like he’d been …

Illinois outfit Disappears crack straight into ‘Guider’ with ‘Superstition’ that works as a overall blueprint for the album. Hazy guitars maxed out on reverb that flow from left to right and all the places inbetween. Incomprehensible yapping vocals tha …

You know that Bon Jovi song ‘Living on a Prayer’? And how within that particular track Mr John Bongiovi details the woes of a blue collar man by the name of Tommy who “used to work on the docks, the union’s been on strike, he’s down on his luck….it’s …

For the best part of the last decade The Decemberists have been making albums of ever increasing ambition, scope and complexity, reaching apogee in 2009’s ‘Hazards Of Love’, a full blown concept album with narrative arc and characterisation. ‘The King …