Take Them On On Your Own - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

They burst onto the scene in 2000 with an album that sounded slightly different to most of the other music around at the time. There was a hint of Definitely Maybe era Oasis about them that meant The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's debut album did reasonably well. Then 3 years later in 2003 they returned with this follow up to the Self titled debut album. It was really a case of wait and see as they returned from being missing in action to take the world on with a new album. It took a while for me to get into "Take Them On, On Your Own", but it's easily as good as the debut album if not better. They stayed true to the sound of the first album, which ...  Read the complete review

It's coming up to christmas so the record companies are in overdrive trying to put out as much material as possible. Anyone remotely established in the business has a 'greatest hits' out, Fame Academy Idol Person is releasing a slew of albums with two new songs and murdering several classics, and record companies executives are busy with their shovels at graveyards digging up the decomposed bodies of murdered rap stars and taking them back to their laboratories for electro-shock therapy in an attempt to get another album's worth of material out of them. There is good material out there, but it's getting harder to find it out of the chart stuff and ...  Read the complete review