Kooks, The - Konk (Album)

10:18pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008

THE Kooks have proved critics wrong with the follow-up to their best-selling debut album.

Ting Tings, The - We Started Nothing (Album)

11:24am Sunday 1st June 2008

THE first album from Salford two-piece The Ting Tings has a lot of hype to live up to.

Be Your Own Pets - Get Awkward (Album)

1:42pm Friday 30th May 2008

WHEN they exploded onto the rock scene with their self-titled album two years ago, Be Your Own Pet were the definition of youthful exuberance.

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Album)

2:10pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

IF YOU are expecting an album full of tunes as catchy and memorable as the successful Run (I'm A Natural Disaster) then you'll be disappointed. But that's not to say it's a bad album.

Scouting for Girls - Scouting for Girls (Album)

2:16pm Wednesday 21st May 2008

SCOUTING for Girls' debut album, unimaginatively called Scouting for Girls, similarly lacks any evidence of real thought having gone into differentiating between the songs.

R.E.M. - Accelerate (Album)

3:54pm Thursday 10th April 2008

HAD the previous two decades not happened, REM's last two albums might have been better received.

I Am Kloot - Play Moolah Rouge (Album)

11:22am Thursday 27th March 2008

EVOCATIVE lyrics about fairground rides and relationships melt off the lines in this sublime album.

Duffy - Rockferry (Album)

8:00pm Saturday 29th March 2008

AS A boy growing up in Middlesbrough, Duffy was a name to strike fear into the heart of anyone who hadn't hit puberty and filled out a bit yet.

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Album)

6:15pm Thursday 27th March 2008

GOLDFRAPP often slip under the radar.

The Feeling - Join With Us (Album)

6:13pm Thursday 27th March 2008

DESPITE the huge popularity of the band's debut album Twelve Stops and Home, The Feeling's follow up, Join With Us fails to reach the high expectations that their oustanding first CD brought.

Pensioners see living costs soar

Updated 9:36am Saturday 5th July 2008

Pensioners have seen the cost of the goods and services they use soar by more than a third during the past 10 years, research has showed.

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