"Mess Esque coalesce from ripples of guitar and shudders of emotion into the bumps and grooves of songs with biologic inevitability. Mick Turner’s aquatic guitar moods are met where they live and breathe by the vocals and dream imagery of Helen Franzmann aka McKisko, causing nights, moons, low tides and empty landscapes to simmer with raw passion." From Australia

"An ethereal wave of icy, electronic post-punk surround Avoxblue, the brainchild of Jimmy Rossi Jr." From Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Paranoid Waves is an exhilarating and cathartic journey. A f*cking lifeline miraculously floating on the whims of existence." Alternative Britpop from France

Anne Briggs said of her song: "I suppose this is just about the first song that I consciously wrote. It’s been recorded by a number of musicians and singers, and treated quite differently each time."

"Chicago's Joan of Arc is never reliant on the status quo. In the course of their history, the band's recorded output has elicited not only critical praise through challenging the norms of traditional songwriting, but also significant backlash from reviewers who became increasingly confused by the band's eclectic output."

collage artists from Portland, OR

Labour of Love III was the twelfth album and third covers album by UB40.

Nick Currie, a Scottish singer-songwriter, uses the artist name Momus, after the Greek god of mockery