XS Noize chooses the best new albums that we can’t stop playing weekly.
On the back of 2015’s Modern Nature (critically acclaimed getting into the Top Ten album chart with a lifetime achievement award from Q magazine) comes the Charlatans thirteenth album. Different Days is released on Friday […]
Pop supremo’s Andy Bell and Vince Clarke return this May with their self produced seventeenth studio album titled ‘World be Gone’ before busily embarking on a 29 date summer European Stadium Tour as special guests […]
Cast first appeared in the mid 90s during the Britpop era with a string of hit singles and the classic ‘All Change’ album that became the highest selling debut album in the history of the […]
For those of us old enough to remember the early 80’s, it was an era filled with many excellent bands that were brief in their existence but left a substantial influence behind them. The Beat, […]
Toronto-based artist, composer and producer Lydia Ainsworth announces her sublime second album, “Darling of the Afterglow”. The album is released today through Bella Union. “Darling of the Afterglow “is Lydia Ainsworth’s sophomore record and follow […]
Unique and eclectic are two words that come to mind when the band British Sea Power is mentioned. On March 31, 2017 the band will be releasing their 10th studio album Let the Dancers Inherit […]
March is proving to be a spectacular month for new Indie music releases and veteran Indie band Spoon has only made the month more noteworthy. Hot Thoughts the follow up to 2014’s stellar album They […]
Rejoice, the long awaited new release from The Shins has arrived. For fans it has been a long wait since the 2012 release of Port of Morrow. The anticipation for a new release was ratchet […]
As you might have gathered from my Classic Album – Violator piece, I’m a Depeche Mode fan. Reviewing them objectively can be hard given my ahem, devotion to the band and the fact that a […]
Reviewer’s Note (I was in the midst of reviewing this album when the news was announced that David Bowie had left us. I was already enthralled with the album before his passing and would tell […]
This is The Waterboys 11th album in a 30-ish year career, they have been through big music to irish jiggery pokery (and loads of fiddly diddlyness). For this album Mike Scott decamped to Nashville, the […]
Recently, Noah Lennox a.k.a. Panda Bear gave an interview to The Quietus where he talked about his favorite thirteen albums. They ranged from the ‘Enter The Wu Tang’ to King Tubby’s ‘Roots Of Dub’ to […]
I have to start this review with a confession – I’ve never quite got Belle and Sebastian. They’ve had moments of indisputable genius in the past but I’ve never found myself fully gripped by one […]
The Gravity Drive is a prime example showing that the music distribution world has seismically shifted and we are in” Kansas” no longer. Even 10 years ago it would have been difficult to imagine a […]
Huw(Bunf) Bunford ,frontman of The Super Furry Animals, has been on a productive hiatus from the group. Bunford has formed a side project band, The Pale Blue Dots with composer Richard Chester. The duo has […]
With a significant amount of fanfare the once again reconfigured The Smashing Pumpkins have released their ninth album, Monuments to Elegy. Original member and founder of the band, Billy Corgan remains at the helm with a […]
It’s been 6 years since U2 released the underrated ‘No Line on the Horizon’ to the world with a huge media campaign. Even when the first choice single ‘Get on your Boots’ confused fans, the […]