MOJO Bar - Music for the people

Franz Ferdinand do appear to have misplaced the zeitgeist that they held so firmly, only letting go long enough to pick up an award or two in their first cosmic year at the head of an irresistble post punk revival. It would appear however that we did resist. There is nothing within as struttingly brilliant as [...]

This is animal collectives ninth studio album (which was news to me), but it would seem from digging into their past a little, that it is their most ‘Pop’ to date. More used to emmitting long, avant garde soundscapes rather than what’s to be found on offer here. This is easily accesible without being obvious. Touchstones [...]

Some months ago I wrote on this very website about those albums you buy, that you listen to once or twice through, don’t really get, and then discard telling everyone who’ll listen that they are terrible. Later though, you are forced to eat your words over a massive six course banquet that you can barely [...]

Saxophones. That’s the thing I’ll take from my couple of weeks with Day and age. Saxophones. And not just any saxophones. These are ABC, Wham style brass orgies. With 2004 debut hot fuss, The Killers had worn their 80′s anglophile influences clearly enough on the tops of their sleeves but this is more like the [...]

Josh Rouse is one of those talented souls destined to forever play the fringes. He’s been a constant on Mojo playlists since the early part of this decade but our constant championing  has made little difference. He has a similar work ethic to Ryan Adams, writing and recording seemingly constantly and throwing out smooth sounding [...]

TV on the Radio’s previous output was perhaps easier to admire than to like or love. With genre labels like experimental rock, post rock or even art rock thrown at them, they were unlikely ever to find a mainstream audience with their at times almost aloof sound. While hardly making a leap for the Kaiser Chief, David Siteks Brooklyn [...]

Is it worth criticising Kings of Leon? Certainly not within the walls of a Mojo. In my nine year stay/sentence I’ve never seen a collection of records unite both worker and drinker quite like the quartet produced by the followhills. With no real hit singles to speak of their unerring rise from poor cousin southern [...]

In a long list of personal faults, the one which stands out for discussion here is my habit of dismissing an album after one run through and declaring it overrated, indulgent piffle. A list of classic albums as long as Peter Shiltons arms have after one listen been branded, ‘Rubbish’ or ‘I really don’t see what all the fuss [...]