Album Reviews

Welcome to the Vault's Album Reviews index. Here you'll find listings of the latest stuff we've looked at plus an archive of everything we've reviewed since the fanzine started up at the beginning of 2003. Feel free to browse at your leisure and happy reading!

Latest

October/November 2004

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - "Lifeblood"

Sorry but this time there really is no question - they've lost it

MARILYN MANSON - "Lest We Forget"

"The God Of Fuck" gets his back catalogue rounded up

THE VERVE - "This Is Music"

Wigan miserabilists' best of turns out to be a bit of a mixed bag

TRAVIS - "Singles"

Scottish nice guys par excellence get the greatest hits treatment

KORN - "Greatest Hits Vol 1"

Unflattering career round-up from one-time nu-metal trailblazers

ROBBIE WILLIAMS - "Greatest Hits"

Britpop's very own cabaret man gets in on the Christmas best of bandwagon

PLACEBO - "Once More With Feeling"

And the best ofs just keep on coming...this one from Brian Molko and co

SUM 41 - "Chuck"

Pop-punks get heavy with mixed results

GOOD CHARLOTTE - "The Chronicles Of Life And Death"

They're back. Oh dear.

FATBOY SLIM - "Palookaville"

The bandwagon rolls out of town leaving Norm in the dust

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - "Songbook"

Excellent round-up from Welsh psychedelic types

KINGS OF LEON - "Aha Shake Heartbreak"

Dull as ditchwater '70s AOR revisited

THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER - "The Royal Society"

Brighton psychobillies remain as lovably insane as ever

THE WONDERSTUFF - "Escape From Rubbish Island"

Disappointing return from Miles Hunt and co

BIFFY CLYRO - "Infinity Land"

Emo by numbers from north of the border

JIMMY EAT WORLD - "Futures"

Emo from across the Atlantic. Not by numbers though fortunately.

THE DONNAS - "Gold Medal"

Disappointing return to the fray from one-time pop-punk-metal vixens

DOGS D'AMOUR - "Heart-Shaped Skulls"

Debauched Wolverhampton glam-metallers get their back catalogue rounded up

SIMPLE PLAN - "Still Not Getting Any"

Inoffensive pop-punk from the west side of the Atlantic

THE AMBERSHADES - "Clap Clap Clap"

Britpop makes a comeback six years on...

RACINE - "Number One"

The return of Wendy James. Whaddaya mean, "who?"...

3 INCHES OF BLOOD - "Advance And Vanquish"

Like the Darkness only rubbish

FRENCH KICKS - "Trial Of The Century"

The '80s revival re-starts here evidently...

JETPLANE LANDING - "There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Real Danger"

Cheapo odds 'n' sods collection from Irish emo tykes

THE VACATION - "Band From World War Zero"

The post-Strokes brigade finally get it right that crucial three years too late

HURRICANE PARTY - "Get This"

Yup, it's old-skool metal time again

OCEANSIZE - "Music For Nurses"

Below-average prog-indie from north of the border

RIVER CITY REBELS - "Hate To Be Loved"

Glam-punk wannabes come unstuck thanks to bad production