Webcuts Music

Reissue! Repackage! Warpaint‘s mesmerising debut gets a little dressing up as we wait for album #2.

Dum Dum Girls add an extra coat of polish and put on a brave garage-pop face for album number 2.

Energetic indie-rock from LA’s Grouplove but watch out for “the boring half of the record”. Whoops.

Obscurities he called it, but more like a forgotten treasure trove from all chapters of the Stephin Merritt songbook.

Cherry Red, 2011 While the other three members forged on with nary a breath to contemplate what lay behind them, it took the ex-Bauhaus frontman 3 long years to record his first solo album. Here Murphy’s path was a more cautious one, making tentative steps with ex-Japan bassist Mick Karn for their unspectacular avant garde [...]

With our review dispensing superlatives like “timeless” and “classic”, Beirut‘s The Rip Tide is one of the must-listen albums of 2011.

Very unsure about this album, the sixth from past Webcuts pet faves, Okkervil River. I Am Very Far from their best.

Epic post-rock from The Fierce & The Dead on their debut album. Seek it out, post-rock fans.

Pavement reunion done and dusted, Stephen Malkmus and Co. get back to making adult indie rock on album number five.

Canadian folk-sters Dark Mean deliver a “must-listen album with staying power, and one of the year’s best” on their self-released debut.