Album Reviews

I’ve reviewed a lot of albums from Ireland, but also others from around the world. Here’s the full index of album reviews. Scroll down for Single Reviews too.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology
Ryan Adams – Orion
An Taobh Tuathail Vol III

Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
The Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
The Blind Pilots – The Toys Have Gone Berserk
B.o.B – The Adventures of Bobby Ray
The Brilliant Things – The Brilliant Things EP
Tom Brosseau – Posthumous Success
Carla Bruni – As if Anything Happens
The Butterfly Graveyard – The Butterfly Graveyard

Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave
The Cast of Cheers – Chariot
Clancy – Road to the Heart
CODES – Trees Dream in Algebra
Oliver Cole – We Albatri
Common – Be
Cathal Coughlan – Rancho Tetrahedron
CSS – Donkey
Miley Cyrus – Breakout

Cathy Davey – The Nameless
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
Gavin DeGraw – Gavin DeGraw
The Divine Comedy – Bang Goes the Knighthood
Dr. Dog – Fate
The Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do
The Drums – The Drums
The Dutchess & the Duke – She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke

Fight Like Apes – And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
iForward, Russia! – Life Processes

David Geraghty – The Victory Dance
David Gray – Foundling

Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
Herm – Monsters
The Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
The Holy Roman Army – Desecrations

Jody Has a Hitlist – Boy Caught Envy
John, Shelly, & the Creatures – Dinosaur
Norah Jones – The Fall

Kings of Leon – Only By the Night

Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
Seth Lakeman – Hearts and Minds
The Last Tycoons – The Last Tycoons

Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing
James Vincent McMorrow – Early in the Morning
John Mellencamp – Life, Death, Love, and Freedom
Monkey – Jouney to the West
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

Nas – Untitled
The National – High Violet
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip

Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
O Emperor – Reverie

Primal Scream – Beautiful Future

R.S.A.G. – Be It Right or Wrong

Scissor Sisters – Night Work
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – …And the Horse You Rode In On
State Champion – Stale Champagne
Sting – Symphonicities
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
The Tears – Refugees
202s – The 202s
Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History

U2 – No Line on the Horizon

Villagers – Becoming a Jackal

War Child presents Heroes
Paul Weller – 22 Dreams
Wire – Object 47

SINGLE REVIEWS

Alexandra Burke – ‘Start Without You’

Ultan Conlon – ‘The Universe Tune’
Sharon Corr – ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’

Antoine Dodson – ‘Bed Intruder Song’

Fight Like Apes – ‘Hoo Ha Henry’

Jedward – ‘All the Small Things’

Kings of Leon – ‘Radioactive’

Joe McElderry – ‘The Climb’
Olly Murs – ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’

Rihanna – ‘Rude Boy’

Sugarland – ‘Stuck Like Glue’

Taylor Swift – ‘Mine’

Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow – ‘Shame’