Album of the week

XS Noize chooses the best new albums that we can’t stop playing weekly.

Album Review: THE CHARLATANS – ‘Different Days’

Album Review: THE CHARLATANS – ‘Different Days’

On the back of 2015’s Modern Nature (critically acclaimed getting into the Top Ten album chart with a lifetime achievement…

7 years ago

Album Review: ERASURE – ‘World Be Gone’

Pop supremo's Andy Bell and Vince Clarke return this May with their self produced seventeenth studio album titled 'World be…

7 years ago

Album Review: CAST – Kicking Up The Dust

Cast first appeared in the mid 90s during the Britpop era with a string of hit singles and the classic…

7 years ago

Classic Album Revisited: THE BEAT – Special Beat Service

For those of us old enough to remember the early 80’s, it was an era filled with many excellent bands…

7 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW – Lydia Ainsworth – “Darling Of The Afterglow”

Toronto-based artist, composer and producer Lydia Ainsworth announces her sublime second album, “Darling of the Afterglow”. The album is released…

7 years ago

Album Review: BRITISH SEA POWER- Let the Dancers Inherit the Party

Unique and eclectic are two words that come to mind when the band British Sea Power is mentioned. On March…

7 years ago

Album Review: SPOON – Hot Thoughts

March is proving to be a spectacular month for new Indie music releases and veteran Indie band Spoon has only…

7 years ago

Album Review: The Shins – Heartworms

Rejoice, the long awaited new release from The Shins has arrived. For fans it has been a long wait since…

7 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Depeche Mode – Spirit

As you might have gathered from my Classic Album - Violator piece, I'm a Depeche Mode fan. Reviewing them objectively…

7 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: David Bowie – Blackstar

Reviewer’s Note (I was in the midst of reviewing this album when the news was announced that David Bowie had…

8 years ago

THE WATERBOYS – MODERN BLUES

This is The Waterboys 11th album in a 30-ish year career, they have been through big music to irish jiggery…

9 years ago

PANDA BEAR – PANDA BEAR MEETS THE GRIM REAPER

Recently, Noah Lennox a.k.a. Panda Bear gave an interview to The Quietus where he talked about his favorite thirteen albums.…

9 years ago

BELLE & SEBASTIAN – GIRLS IN PEACETIME WANT TO DANCE

I have to start this review with a confession - I've never quite got Belle and Sebastian. They've had moments…

9 years ago

THE GRAVITY DRIVE – TESTAMENT

The Gravity Drive is a prime example showing that the music distribution world has seismically shifted and we are in”…

9 years ago

THE PALE BLUE DOTS – LOTS OF DOTS

Huw(Bunf) Bunford ,frontman of The Super Furry Animals, has been on a productive hiatus from the group. Bunford has formed…

9 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments to Elegy

With a significant amount of fanfare the once again reconfigured The Smashing Pumpkins have released their ninth album, Monuments to Elegy.…

9 years ago

U2 – SONGS OF INNOCENCE

It’s been 6 years since U2 released the underrated ‘No Line on the Horizon’ to the world with a huge…

10 years ago