Tag Archives: Albums

Culch.ie’s Albums Of 2011

  By Culch.ie | December 21, 2011 - 2:30 pm | Music
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Face facts, folks. You’re probably going to end up with a lot of vouchers for Christmas this year, because modern technology means your friends are all too busy playing Minecraft to put any effort into something as occasionally outdoorsy as present shopping. But not to worry. Culch.ie’s here to tell you exactly what to exchange your damp and dogeared vouchers for. Here follows our albums of 2011, all of which we’re pleased to bet our bunions you’ll love. Of course we are! Who wants bunions?! Foster The People - Torches ”You’ve got to hear this one” said my mate Noel. I hadn’t a clue who they were but vaguely seemed to recognise ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ from the radio. In the intervening months, Foster the People have gone big. Their performance at Electric Picnic was jammed and their proposed gig in The Academy was upgraded to the Olympia after selling out … There’s more →

The Chemical Brothers Further: A Review

  By Éilish Burke | June 12, 2010 - 5:49 pm | Music, The Culch
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Hey boys, hey girls, The Chemical Brothers are back and on fine form with their seventh studio album Further. You’ve got to had it to this pair - they’ve been consistently making good dance music for almost twenty years now. At this stage in their careers they could just sit back, relax and live off the interest from all those million-selling albums (see Fat Boy Slim for tips). Instead they’ve gone and recorded a gem of a record. And subwoofer speaker systems around the world will be getting a dusting down this summer as the duo are touring to support the release.

Review: Ellie Goulding - Lights

  By Lisa McInerney | April 11, 2010 - 1:24 am | Featured Post, Music
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Not so long ago, I wrote a review of Marina and The Diamonds’ debut album, The Family Jewels, in which I raved on in a manner that would have made Shaun Ryder blush. I had a reason for gushing, though; I was a fan for some time before the album was released, so witnessing her pretty, quirky demos moulded into kick-arse gorgeous songs was something of an emotional Event. It was on the back of this (almost overwhelmingly) positive experience that I came to Ellie Goulding‘s debut album, Lights, which was released in March. It turned out to be no good thing. Comparisons between the two are hard to resist. Ellie and Marina are both young, sweetly eccentric singer-songwriters, lauded breathlessly as future pop icons - Ellie was named as BBC’s Sound of 2010, with Marina coming second place. And they happen to be, like, totally bezzie mates as well. … There’s more →

Just What You Might ExSpektor

  By Lottie | June 23, 2009 - 1:33 pm | Music, The Culch
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Regina Spektor’s new album, Far, was released online yesterday and should be on the shelves as of this morning. She took her time didn’t she? Her previous album Being to Hope dating back to 2006. Spektor, born in Russia to a Jewish family and raised in the Bronx trained as a classical pianist in Manhattan. She traveled extensively in her childhood which lends itself to her quirky misplaced singing accent. She is in my opinion, the original and the best of those “quirky” songstresses who play and instrument and sing with an accent ala Kate Nash, Lilly Allen, Duffy and Corinne Bailey Rae. While Far lacks something of what Begin to Hope had and doesn’t have anything in the same league of the beautiful Samson it is a lovely sweet enjoyable album and merited the third play this morning. Samson The stand out songs on the album are the a-typical … There’s more →

Seven Of Five…

  By Rick | May 26, 2009 - 11:34 pm | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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The five sparkly little jewel(case)s that have taken my fancy this week are as diverse as they are….. different. Got to work on those metaphors if I’m going to be writing this every week or so… We start with: Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers Disclaimer first - I like a huge amount of what the Manics have done over the years, I thought the last album was brilliant and they’re one of the best interviews I ever did, back in April 2007. This is their new one though and slightly different. This is the legendary album. The one with all of the late Richie Edwards unused lyrics… It easily stands up with their stuff from the past. Alternately raw, with loads of big guitars and the occasional string section and soulful stripped down stuff. Can see myself listening to it a lot more. Facing Page: Top Left is … There’s more →