Cleaners From Venus - Under Wartime Conditions and Disclosure - Settle

This Album Under Wartime Conditions by Cleaners From Venus is a jangly guitar orientated pop gem. Opening track Summer in a Small Town is brilliatn as it jitters from chord to chord with superb lyrics and vocals especially during the chorus. The Whole Album has these ambient sounds before the song starts which makes it very interesting. Johnny the Moondog is Dead rattles along with great vigour and the vocals are excellent,as well as the lyrics, the songwriting on this album is very reminiscent of the Kinks Beatles even maybe a bit of The Jam in there. It's quintessential Britishness and sounds like what Blur would become less than ten years later. Hand of Stone is a rocking track with plenty of gusto. Drowning Butterflies is great too as the guitar comes in and Martin Newell says ''Here we go'' great lyrics and vocals. Radio Seven is an instrumental track. Fracas on West St. is good and very spacey rock with droning guitars and pounding drums that just blurt out what their intention is. its a rocking track. and its probably as loud as Cleaners from Venus get on this album. Lukewarm Lovesong is a sentimental pop song that sorta sounds like the cure if you ask me. A blue wave is quite fast lyrics like ''And somethings happening in the us of a. the phones are ringing they'll be hell to pay''. Song For Syd Barret is brilliant and is the best song on the album , magnificent synth lines and quirky guitar lines and and a great chorus. the winter place is a nice track too and instrumental of chiming glasses, like a big orchestra of chiming glasses. quite original and it has a beautiful tune to it. 8/10

Disclosure's album Settle is a unrelenting pulse of dance and House music. Opening track when a fire starts to burn is brilliant crisp high hats synth bass that just pounds your ears unrelentingly. Latch is a good track too. F For You is a great track too. most of the songs on here are very fast paced and pounding. White Noise is a good track. with a synth line that just is a in a different medium to anything you have heard. new textures and new grooves really pronounce themselves on here. its not new areas for the genre of house music but the synth lines and grooves and revolutionary and perfectly assembled. Defeated no more is good too. Stimulation is a good track, also, Voices. Second chance is amazing, and grab her is probably the best track on here.You and Me is great. this whole album just rattle along to the same beat filled with plenty of hooks and different textures , these synth ambient drones that just level everything out and crisp high hats and amazing grooves. January is very good. Confess to me is good. Help Me loose my mind is ethereal and ambient beautiful in places. Boiling fells like its about to boil over with excitement. Whats in your head is great.Tenderly is good too. Running is good. the whole album just works on so many levels. you can dance to it. you can chill out to it. perfect beats chilled ambience drones. its like a conjoining of many electronic genres. 9/10