Depeche Mode – Come Back
“Come Back” from Depeche Mode’s upcoming album Sounds of the Universe is a sign that the thirty-year-old band is showing its age. The song is predictably electronic New Wave, but
Art Brut – Alcoholic’s Unanimous
A motley hodgepodge of exclamatory lyrics, including groggy demands of “Bring me tea, bring me coffee, I was up all night,” Art Brut’s latest single places the band in that
Interview with Bell X1’s Paul Noonan
Reading a (postively-worded) review of Bell X1’s fourth collection of wittily-worded and warmly-written songs this week, one sentence jarred with me: “Bell X1, now Ireland’s second biggest rock band.” Somehow,