Reviews

Phil Collins and I do have something in common. For our whole lives we have loved soul music, although there is a considerable generation gap between Collins and I, we have both grown up with the style and as such, Motown is a big part of our lives. When he announced an album of Motown

Pharrell Williams’ hip-hop rock project smoothes out into funk on their fourth record. N.E.R.D. has always been a strange animal. Pharrell Williams is best known for his spare, spooky hip-hop production but N.E.R.D.’s biggest moments have almost exclusively been the monstrous party rap-rock singles (‘Lapdance’ and ‘Rock Star’ to ‘Spaz’ and ‘Everybody Nose’). In fact,

The sudden Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ harks back a decade in sound for me. I’m was thinking ‘Kid A’ on this record as soon as the opening cut ‘Bloom’ started playing. It is that multi-layered Thom Yorke Vs the rest of the band with electronic percussion giving it an immediate Radiohead sound. I