Album Reviews

Punch Drunkard

MAINSTREAM SUCCESS BECKONS FOR Elliott Smith in the wake of his Oscar-nominated Good Will Hunting soundtrack. He's just signed a contract with Dreamworks and...

The Great Crossover Potential

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD AN Other Band saying they're 'Big in Japan'? A lot, frankly. And The Yellow Monkey are no different:...

Estate Style Entertainment

IN 1987, BRITISH MUSIC NEEDED A bit of overseas help. The Smiths had split, NME readers' favourite band was The Wedding Present, Sigue Sigue...

Va Va Voom

A RARE TALENT IN THE TRUEST sense of the word, Louisiana native Lucinda Williams has released only four albums in a career spanning 18...

Waved Out

AS EMBRACE ARE WONT TO TELL YOU, YOU should always come back to what you know. For one David Lewis Gedge, this is a...

El Nino

ECCENTRICITY AND AMATEURISM MIGHT BE virtues typically associated with the English, but Robert Pollard, singer with Ohio's Guided By Voices is no stranger to...

Spectral Worship

FLIP OPEN THIS HIP-HOP SUPERGROUP'S debut offering 'El Nino' and you'll find the Def Squad logo. Namely, a toddler with hands pressed tight around...

Planet Of The Wolves

IT'S NOW 1998 AND THE US UNDERGROUND has gone overground. Pavement have discovered the hit parade, Beck has become a global deity while the...

Hammock Style

THE ELECTRONIC EXPLOITS of the Germans are still, somewhat predictably, viewed with the same disdain and distrust as the country's football team. We all...

Music From The Motion Picture Touch

PITY POOR GANGER. FOR Glasgow's pioneering post-rockers now find themselves in the middle of a cruel game of catch-up as they struggle to match...