Category: Albums

When one thinks about indie-folk what is actually thought about? Perhaps Fleet Foxes, maybe Mumford and Sons. In less than six month’s time will it be Cloud Control that people are talking about?

Yellowcard return after nearly 3 years with their seventh studio record

The EDGE cast’s it’s musical ear over the legendary Blink-182 drummer’s semi-solo project

As the days get longer and warmer, will we be enjoying The View?

Let’s get this out of the way – James Blake clearly has talent. There’s just about enough melodies here that get stuck in your head easily enough to convince you of that. What we also have here though is a record that misses far more than it hits. Evidently chosen as the artist to sell […]

Pantera‘s Vulgar Display of Power was the band’s first album since the brilliant Cowboys from Hell (1990), and is every way just as good. The album is exactly as the title suggests – absolutely brutal. You would never guess by listening to this album that Pantera used to be a glam metal group in the […]

What is there to say about this album that hasn’t already been said?  Often hailed as one of, if not the greatest album of all time, Ok Computer was the masterstroke that not only firmly propelled Radiohead into superstardom but into the halls of musical history, sitting alongside the greats as one of the finest bands […]

Different Class is a gorgeously grotesque record; musically sublime, lyrically gifted and uniquely Pulp

The 90s was a great decade for American Idiots Green Day. The release of Dookie, so far their best selling album of all time, and Nimrod that houses smash hit singles ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’ and ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’, saw Green Day firmly cement their place on top of the punk-rock world. […]

Computers and Blues evokes a sense of urgency, the idea that one must not just go through the motions, but push things forward

Lemuria – Pebble The third full-length album for Buffalo duo Lemuria was a hugely anticipated 2011 treat for all their fans. Their previous two albums received a lot of deserved praise and following a European tour the news that a third was on it’s way, a long time after the release of Get Better and the […]

In the midst of a record industry becoming extinct, Radiohead managed to make the unveiling of an album a genuine event by announcing the rush-release of their eighth LP The King of Limbs on Valentiness Day. The shock of a group of Radiohead’s ilk releasing an album at such short notice created a media buzz […]

The EDGE take a look at the hotly anticipated debut from The Vaccines, set for release on March 14th

***** A review of Adele’s sensational new album ’21’.