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Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

Kelis : Food

19/04/2014

An album that keeps its powder dry, thrills and teases, and on vocal performances such as 'Biscuits n' Gravy', enthrals. Kelis, Food. Review...

Teebs : Estara

04/04/2014

Mandowa stamps his musical signature onto the record, weaving a living, breathing album of songs with none of the icy clinical detachment that might be expected of a producer's album....

Mike Vallely : On Not Being Broken

26/03/2014

Action-sports megacorporations duly demonized, Vallely takes to the appropriately bleak and inhuman streets of Berlin....

A picture of commemorative UK coins with Kitchener

An Emotive Wartime Journey. Yours for £2

04/01/2014

That the Royal Mint Advisory Committee chose to commemorate that 'emotive wartime journey' with the iconic image of Lord Kitchener should come as no surprise....

Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...

Peru Maravilloso [Album]

08/11/2013

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

The Presence LDN : Interview

23/10/2013

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart....

Black History Month : Interview

17/10/2013

There is a tension in Black history that makes it all the more interesting.That is to say, it highlights the many struggles and centrality of people of African descent in making the modern world....

Drugstore : The Best of Drugstore

16/10/2013

Maybe it's musical Marmite, inspiring only deep devotion or outright contempt. Drugstore are not static enough to pin a genre upon....

A photo of Douglas Dare by Dusan Kacan, Erased Tapes, singer

Douglas Dare : Seven Hours [EP]

12/09/2013

Devoid of histrionics, of 'emotional' treatments, and of cloying sentimentality. Dare's presentation of the songs is instead factual, crisp and resigned....

Seamus Heaney RIP

30/08/2013

Few Nobel laureates make visits to state schools to discuss poetry. Heaney did....

Joel Sarakula : The Golden Age

05/06/2013

The nostalgic waft of times past may be enough to propel Sarakula into the playlists of the nation's barbeque evenings. ...

The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

25/04/2013

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

Ian McCulloch : Holy Ghosts

13/04/2013

Mac's voice has aged with the same sweet languid complexity as an oak-barelled Sauternes....

Gangsters and Gunslingers : The American Museum in Britain

23/03/2013

Los Angeles was the last Western boom town – a place where elderly cowboys mingled with celluloid stars on Hollywood backlots. Wyatt Earp ended his days there. Gangsters and Gunslingers, at the...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Nhoah : Tangowerk

28/02/2013

Nhoah's reappraisal of Tango is painted in bold strokes, dappling the Argentianian rhythms and Iberian histrionics with electronica and sequenced beats, rather than vice versa....

Patrick Wolf : Live, Teatro Lara, Madrid

05/02/2013

'Sometimes I'm a fuckup', he explains, 'but I kinda think that's what you like about me'....

Salif Keita : Talé

01/02/2013

Salif Keita 's voice is outside of time, although steeped in place(s). If you wish to call someone, he once stated, call them with music. In present-day Mali, that's got to be worth a try....

Becoming Picasso : Courtauld Gallery

28/01/2013

Picasso responded immediately to the art and culture that surrounded him in Paris – in the first part of 1901 he devoured the sights and excitement of the city and its artists. In the second part...

Spaghetti Whores and Tasty Capers

18/01/2013

Along with almost every highly-flavoured or highly-priced delicacy man has ever put to his lips, capers have been thought to have aphrodisiac properties...

Hanging Offence: Arts Canteen

14/01/2013

Arts Canteen is a new UK-based arts venture that explores intercultural artistic relationships between the Middle East and the UK. Trebuchet meets Kelvin De Veth, curator and link-maker....

You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

11/01/2013

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

Claudio Parentela

04/01/2013

The rigidity of conventional responses to sexual imagery takes a beating in Parentela's collages - their brutal exposition of the flawed humanity beneath and beyond the adland exterior is made...

Albums of the Year: Editor’s Picks

25/12/2012

If Lana Del Rey, Flying Lotus or Grimes aren't on any Trebuchet lists this year, it's certainly not because we haven't heard them (indeed, how could we miss them?). And we're not coming over all...

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise

15/11/2012

As a jumping-off point for facetious gasbagging of just about any moral, political, religious or personal viewpoint, pornography is a gift to the commentator in love with the sound of his or her own...

DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

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