Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Three years ago on Let’s Get Out Of This Country Scottish Spectorpop band Camera Obscura hit an unstoppable Phelps-like stride in their particularly watery, whimsical discipline of music. They butterfly-stroked
Peter Doherty – Grace Wastelands
Anyone who witnessed the mortifying interrogation of Pete Doherty on the Late Late Show recently will recall Pat Kenny patronisingly asking the former Rehab King what he wants from his
Neil Young – Fork In The Road
That dog-gone crazy horse has only gone and made a concept album. “What’s so bad about that?” I hear you say. After all, some of the finest musical outputs of
Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
Did you hear the one about the time Kelly Clarkson took a personality test? She got an F. The stars of end-of-noughties femme-pop have succeeded thanks, predominantly, to an almost
Polly Scattergood
From her Dickensian moniker right down to her Victorian-horror tinged lyrics (‘spit on my French knickers/and call me a whore’) London-based songwriter Polly Scattergood is gothic in the most classical