Album Reviews

Manic Street Preachers | The Ultra Vivid Lament (Sony/Columbia)

The Killers | Pressure Machine (Island)

Descendents | 9th and Walnut (Epitaph Records)

Kings of Convenience | Peace or Love (EMI)

Lilys | A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (Frontier Records) and The 3 Way (Sundazed) reissues

The Besnard Lakes | The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Full Time Hobby)

The Weather Station | Ignorance (Fat Possum)

June of 44 | Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories In The Time Of Love And Survival (Broken Clover)

Darren Jessee | Remover (Bar/None)

Fish | Weltschmerz (Chocolate Frog)

Cocktails | Catastrophic Entertainment (Alien Snatch! Records)

Bright Eyes | Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Dead Oceans)