Category Archive: album

Georgia Fair review

Heidi Pett gives her thoughts on Georgia Fair’s first long-player: Despite its name, All Through Winter seems destined to be something of a summer soundtrack. A warm breeze, gauzy curtains blowing through an open… Read More

Boston Spaceships – Let It Beard album review

Where to start with Robert Pollard? It’s barely weeks since his last solo offering and the former GBV frontman is back already – this time with the soon to be disbanded Boston Spaceships,… Read More

King Louie’s Missing Monuments

King Louie Bankston seems to have a few things he’d like to get off his chest. It’s not house prices or the state of the Greek economy that’s playing on his mind –… Read More

Arctic Monkeys review

Do Arctic Monkeys still matter? In the increasingly fragmented music world, if you’re not one of the very biggest pop hitters, you really don’t sell many records, so when comeback single Don’t Sit… Read More

Abbe May – Design Desire

Design Desire, the third album from Australian singer/songwriter Abbe May, isn’t the kind of record that politely asks to played. In fact, so immediate and exhilarating is the guitar-driven opening title-track, that it… Read More

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Smoking in Heaven

We make no secret of the fact that we love the shit out of England’s Kitty, Daisy & Lewis here at Something You Said. When we reviewed their debut album on our old… Read More

Robert Pollard – Lord of the Birdcage review

These days it seems all you need for a bit of lo-fi indie acclaim is some spray-on jeans and a set of half-arsed tracks drenched in fuzz courtesy of GarageBand. Extra bonus points… Read More

Clytem Scanning – Armada album review

We make no secret of how much we love Clytem Scanning. Every now and again a new video from her arrives in our inbox and we get excited at the prospect of taking… Read More

Yuck’s debut is fresh and exciting

Hailing from London and including Daniel Blumberg and Max Bloom, both of whom used to be in Cajun Dance Party, Yuck land on the indie scene sounding at times like they hail from… Read More

The Strokes’ Angles offers disappointment

I had a disagreement with some fellow music critics once about the impact The Strokes had on the indie music world. It was largely over my claim that their arrival changed everything. It’s… Read More

A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn

Before researching Kyle Bobby Dunn’s A Young Person’s Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, I never knew there was a genre known as “drone”. It’s not exactly a term that fills me with confidence.… Read More

Night Surgeon review

Jonjon gives his opinion on the offering from Portland’s electro duo, Night Surgeon: I love electro pop but I can’t recommend Night Surgeon. I’m not sure when bands and producers decided the best… Read More