Best Of 2009 - #20 - #16

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
6/10

Invaders Must Die, Omen and Warrior's Dance are all absolutely fantastic tracks, however the second half of the album is much less so for me.

OneRepublic - Waking Up
6/10

Even though I have only listened to the tracks on YouTube (the album doesn't come out in the UK until 18th January), I wasn't very interested by this album. However, All The Right Moves, Secrets, Everybody Wants Me and Good Life are standouts. The others, not so much.

The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
7/10
I think I was wrong to give 6/10 in my original review. I have listened to it a lot more and it has grown on me. City of Bugs has become a personal favourite now, and I appreciate the slower numbers such as Save Your Secrets and Stick To Yr Guns. I still don't like Last Year's Snow though.

Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
7/10

Jetstream and Kingdom Of Rust start the album off brilliantly, but then to find that brilliance again, we must go to Compulsion and the best song on the album, House Of Mirrors. The others are not bad songs, but the aforementioned tracks do cast a shadow on the rest.

The Hours - See The Light
7/10
Original review here.

Waking Up Stuff

OneRepublic's second album, Waking Up, will be released 17th November. Tracklist:
01. Made For You
02. All The Right Moves
03. Secrets
04. Everybody Loves Me
05. Missing Persons 1 & 2
06. Good Life
07. All This Time
08. Fear
09. Waking Up
10. Marchin On
11. Lullaby

Artwork:

All The Right Moves Artwork

This is the artwork for OneRepublic's new single, which will appear sometime next week. Release dates are not known yet.

First Single From Waking Up

The first single from OneRepublic's second album, Waking Up, will be called All The Right Moves. More details to follow.

OneRepublic Album Title Revealed

The band's second album is to be called Waking Up, rumoured to be released September or October 2009.

Potential tracks:

• All The Right Moves
• The Other Side
• Missing Persons 1 & 2
• Today
• Everybody Loves Me
• Secrets
• Waking Up
• Fear
• Good Life (last song on album)

The first single will be put on their MySpace page soon.

OneRepublic News

The band's second album, rumoured to be called Today, will be released around September or October. It will feature 9 or 10 songs, possibly including the following five songs:

• All The Right Moves
• The Other Side
• Missing Persons 1 & 2
• Today
• Secrets

New OneRepublic Single For Summer

OneRepublic are hoping to get a single out this summer to precede their upcoming sophomore album, rumoured to be called Today, to be released in autumn.

OneRepublic Album Title

Apparently, the band's second album will be called "Today" and will feature songs such as "All The Right Moves", "The Other Side" and "Missing Persons 1 & 2"

Best Of 2008 (#15-#11)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - The countdown continues...

15. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular


The first five songs are fantastic, the sixth is average, and I didn't like the last four, but in general, this album is good. Thrown in with the insanely brilliant Time To Pretend, followed up with single-worthy songs Weekend Wars and The Youth, and returning up for the brilliant Electric Feel and my personal favourite (after Time To Pretend), Kids. Then I just found it hard to like the rest.
SCORE: 6/10


14. Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture


I was unsure about this album - but I was pleasantly surprised after a few listens. A really heavy electric album, after a while it gets to you. An interesting new band. The pace never lets up, and every song is good, save for Game Over and What She Did, which are the only ones I didn't really like. But songs such as Liquid Lives and Crank It Up are insane.
SCORE: 7/10


13. Feeder - Silent Cry

After some fantastic albums, at first I was not best pleased with Feeder's sixth offering, but considering, it is actually a quite good album, just not in obvious ways. The opener We Are The People is great, a few hiccups follow, save for Itsumo, until the brilliant middle part of the album: Silent Cry through to Who's The Enemy, which saves the album from a bad score. Then I just didn't really find the ending tracks that interesting. But generally, good, despite being the worst from the band in a while.
SCORE: 7/10


12. OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud


After hearing Apologize and Stop And Stare, I was really looking forward to this album. And it is well worth it. The first five tracks are great, and the only three songs that don't keep up with the brilliance are All Fall Down, Tyrant and All We Are. But even they aren't bad. The closing pair, Someone To Save You (one of the best) and Come Home really gets you. If you count bonus tracks (as I've got) - Dreaming Out Loud is great, Something's Not Right Here is not.
SCORE: 8/10

11. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

Snow Patrol's albums have got gradually better, starting with the completely awful Songs For Polarbears, which I honestly thought was a B-side album at first, to the reasonable When It's All Over..., up to the absolutely fantastic albums Eyes Open and Final Straw. However, this new attempt is not quite up there. It has typically good Snow Patrol songs, mixed in with a new sound. The first four are good, then the fifth track just is out of place and not good at all. The sixth track is absolutely brilliant (Please Just Take These Photos...) and the following one isn't that good, but then it builds up from the slow Planets Bend Between Us to the great Engines, to the great rock song Disaster Button, and then closes with the sixteen minute epic (which is sort of a cheat considering it's three songs in one) The Lightning Strike, which is surprisingly good.
SCORE: 8/10