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Matt Walsh

Review: Filthy Boy – Smile That Won’t Go Down

Matt Walsh is enamoured with Filthy Boy's dangerous debut

Review: Kindness – World, You Need A Change of Mind/ at XOYO

Matt Walsh finds out first whether Kindness' debut delivers and then how it comes across live

Review: Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

Laura Marling dazzled with her first two albums, especially critics’ darling sophomore release I Speak Because I Can. Does her third full-length match up? Matt Walsh takes a look.

The best new music of 2010

Cherwell's Music Editor reflects on the rejuvenation of rock and indie

Review: Kisses – THe Heart of the Nightlife

Matt Walsh shares passionate kisses with an accomplished debut album

Review: ‘I Don’t Want To See You Like This’

Matt Walsh runs over the new track from the Joy Formidable

The privileges of being a Villager

Matt Walsh talks to Villagers' frontman Conor O'Brien about his song writing and Hermann Hesse

Reviewed: Bombay Bicycle Club

'Flaws' is a step up from its predecessor, to say the least

Review: Reading Festival

The Libertines, Arcade Fire, Foals all reviewed

Review: Best Coast

Is Matt crazy for new Californian outfit Best Coast? Well, almost.

Kings of Leon at Hyde Park

The Nashville boys play their biggest sell-out show to date

Happiness is a Warm Smith Western

Matt Walsh pulls the trigger on the rough-and-ready Illinois indie-rockers