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Music - Album Reviews

Cortina Whiplash

You don't want to mess with these girls. Not unless you want to end up in the trunk of a car, your feet "knock, knocking" against cold, hard steel as you drift along an empty freeway. » Read the Review · Listen

Kele

The Boxer

Bloc Party's Kele Okereke hits the gym, drops the last name, and dives into the deep dance end. » Read the Review · Listen

Surfer Blood

Astro Coast

The refreshing thing about Astro Coast is its lack of desperation. Nothing sounds force-fed and unconvincing. » Read the Review · Listen

Dashboard Confessional

Alter The Ending

Holding on to your roots and sticking to what you know seem brave to some. But diving headfirst into the unknown musical realms of radio-friendliness; now that takes courage! » Read the Review · Listen

Arcade Fire

The Suburbs

Where Neon Bible felt saturated and heavy under the weight of its own self-importance, The Suburbs soars. » Read the Review · Listen

Nas & Damian Marley

Distant Relatives

The Odd Couple of ragga-rap deliver a strange brew of worldly soulfulness and bewildering anger-rhymes. » Read the Review · Listen

Sheryl Crow

100 Miles From Memphis

Crow sashays from 60s soul to Motown moods and the bluest of blues like she's decided to cut through the effort of recording two albums by sticking it all in one place. » Read the Review · Listen

Rick Ross

Teflon Don

Rick Ross still plays that hustler who paved his successful road from rough ghetto corners to living la Vida Loca in exclusive neighbourhoods. » Read the Review · Listen

5fm

Live5

Live5 is a smash hit album, packed with popular in-the-moment groups. » Read the Review · Listen

Foto Na Dans

Die Vloed

Nadat die groep meer as ‘n jaar lank aan hul nuwe album, Die Vloed, gewerk het, kan aanhangers van Foto na Dans nou uiteindelik hoor waarmee hulle hulself besig gehou het. » Read the Review · Listen

Kylie Minogue

Aphrodite

Kylie's ability to remain top of the pops is impressive… and a damning reflection of the market. » Read the Review · Listen

Valiant Swart en Ollie Viljoen

Wild en Wakker

Common, conservative, played by ma, pa, grandma and grandpa wearing identical shiny, satin colourful Johan-Stemmet-shirts moving like Kurt Darren’s music videos have been their only contact with the outside world: your definition of “Boeremusiek”? Well...it was mine. » Read the Review · Listen

Various

Barney Simon's Radio Revolution

Afrikaans and English artists generally seem to have different motivations in their music. But that is a thing to be celebrated, as this compilation proves. » Read the Review · Listen · Video: Koos - Reconciliation Day · Kalahari

Evolver One

A new name, a new sound and a fresh attitude produces this catchy, poppy, electro-rock smoothie. » Read the Review · Listen · Interview: Evolver One

Oasis

Time Flies... 1994-2009

There's just no escaping the magnetic pull of a band sounding so over-confident, so reckless and inspired at the same time. » Read the Review · Listen · Interview · Kalahari