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Jamie Ewbank
Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:35
It’s long been the dream of game developers to create a game that feels like a playable movie, and in Dead Space , EA has succeeded. Albeit, it’s the sort of movie that involves an awful lot of trudging backwards and forwards doing menial labour whilst
Filed under: CD, The Leisure Lab, MP3, Samsung, music reviews, games, reviews, music, Playstation, Xbox, album reviews, Snow Patrol, Dead Space
Jamie Ewbank
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:34
Proudly displaying an array of early-eighties musical influences The Metro's debut album, More Money Less Grief , frequently risks being dismissed as derivative. Hints of The Libertines, Squeeze, Sham 69 and the odd touch of Ska all make More Money Less
Filed under: CD, The Leisure Lab, Samsung, music reviews, reviews, music, The Eyehe Metros, More Money Less Grief
Jamie Ewbank
Friday, September 19, 2008 12:07
Everything is Borrowed , the fourth album from The Streets, has big job to do. Fans want it to make up for its predecessor, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, and return Mike Skinner to the heights he attained on his first two albums. Alas, it falls
Filed under: CD, The Leisure Lab, MP3, music reviews, music, album reviews, The Streets, Everything Is Borrowed, Mike Skinner
Jamie Ewbank
Friday, September 12, 2008 12:12
This self-titled debut album from Fleet Foxes is a beautiful and self-assured introduction to a Seattle band that have more in common with Crosby, Stills and Nash than Nirvana. Fleet Foxes is a rarity, a pop album that manages to be genuinely innovative
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Jamie Ewbank
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:07
Miranda Barber has a beautiful voice and a good ear for a catchy melody, but her debut album, Lips' Decision , doesn't fully capitalise on these talents. Wandering through jazz and blues history, Barber cherry picks the sounds she likes and adapts them
Filed under: CD, The Leisure Lab, MP3, music reviews, reviews, music, Lips' Decision, Miranda Barber
Jamie Ewbank
Monday, August 11, 2008 16:46
It's going to be a strange week at The Leisure Lab , one in which we'll be mixing conspiracy theories, mindless gunplay and psychedelic electronica to produce a diverse set of reviews. For starters we've been indulging our trigger fingers with the long
Filed under: Blu-ray, CD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, games, reviews, music
Jamie Ewbank
Thursday, August 07, 2008 16:10
The Leisure Lab , our software reviewing sister site, is growing up fast. We've just added a new music review channel and we're moving from weekly to daily updates. Among the goodies going up this week are Brian DePalma's controversial Iraq movie, Redacted
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Audio, Stuff.TV, CD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, whathifi.com, MP3, movies, Samsung, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, film reviews, music reviews