I have a whole slew of new records on my desk, some for review for
Plattentests.de, some bought on my own. I'll use the same range of ratings as for Plattentests, i.e. between 1-10.
One of those records, 'Uninvited, like the clouds' by
The Church will get a longer German review on
Plattentests.de this night, so I won't go into details on this one. (5)
A week later, you will find a review for the new record from
Viva L'American Death Ray Music at the same place. (6)
Until then though let me go through a quick review of what has also arrived:
The Alarm have a new record. Keep away unless you want a trip back to the days in the 80s when Simple Minds and U2 were terrorizing the ether. (3)
Mogwai have a new album 'Mr. Beast' that doesn't hold what it promises. There are some nice heavy rock opera songs on it, but it can become quite boring and annoying at the same time. (5)
Motorpsycho indeed may have made their best record since 'Trust us' but it still is nowhere near that one or 'Angels and Daemons at play' or 'Blissard'. (6)
'Meds' by
Placebo, in contrast, is their best album since 'Without you I'm nothing', lots of high energy songs as well as some nice slow ones, even some experimental ones, which you won't hear on the radio, of course. (7)
Finally, I bought last years album from
Dogs which is somewhere between
Les Savy Fav and
Franz Ferdinand, so that's quite nice disco-indie-rock music. (7)
