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Cedric de Smedt: Illustrator

19/10/2012

Cédric De Smedt illustrates torment and despair without flinching....

One Mile an Hour [Album]

04/10/2012

Perhaps the music should be taken in the context of entertainment to fill six months of darkness with little more than cod heads, limpets and puffin broth for sensual pleasures. ...

Dylan Mondegreen [Album Review]

02/10/2012

A soft-voiced collection of slick popsongs in the fey, beta-male mode...

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

Constellation des Carpates: Eglise de Seignosse le Penon [Live]

03/08/2012

Writing about live music on the Capbreton-Hossegor-Seignosse strip of South-Western France has the tendency to become a 'What I did On My Holidays' essay. An essay featuring more blonde-dreadlocked...

Peter Broderick: These Walls of Mine

23/07/2012

‘…composing and playing music is just a pretty sophisticated way to do those things we do, but why? Because we were separated in the big bang – and are now endlessly trying to find...

Sarin Smoke: Vent

12/07/2012

Recreating the gurgling dry-retches of Dawn French’s back passage during a virulent bout of random-onset dysentery using the medium of guitar feedback may seem a concept album conceit too far...

Yann Novak/Robert Crouch: Fata Morgana

11/07/2012

Yann Novak’s last artwork, the album Presence, was an impressive tableau of ambient noise, deeply evocative and intriguing, yet desperately missing a visual element. A multimedia artist working...

Kitsune Soleil Mix

22/06/2012

Much in the same vein as the earnest would-be intellectual stilting the atmosphere at an after hours house party, Intelligent Dance Music (for all its worthy pseudo philosophic concept and eagerness...

Syd Arthur : On and On

15/06/2012

Syd Arthur wear their Pink Floyd influences openly. There’s the Syd Barret reference in their name, as well as a typographical similarity between the A for Arthur on their album cover and the...

Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

07/06/2012

Eleven albums into a music career which can lay a fair claim to the title 'cult band', Piano Magic resist categorisation by virtue of developing and altering their musical style with each...

DV8: Can We Talk About This? [Theatre/Dance]

04/06/2012

'I'm an artist who's interested in real issues, not just pretty shapes' ...

Dinowalrus: Best Behavior

29/05/2012

Warrington's Parr Hall saw the Stone Roses' comeback gig just last Wednesday, playing a free concert for fans who could produce some physical merchandise-based evidence of their devotion. Rock and...

Maz Totterdell: Sweep

21/05/2012

Puppyskinner, nonce. What more? Elitist pseud, naysaying neverwas, pen-envious killjoy bubble-burster. Or, as Samuel Beckett worded his most venomous insult – 'CRITIC!'. For what or who...

Vengeance and the Panther Queen: EP Review

15/05/2012

Cramming in the pyrotechnic axe-wizardry of metal, the chundering drums of dance, and the infantile personal politics of punk. Vengeance and the Panther Queen sometimes get it right. Without even...

Small Faces: Deluxe Editions

04/05/2012

A seminal collection of songs, in the word's true sense. Unfortunately, so abused is the adjective that we tend to read on, having taken it to mean some glib variation of 'good'. In...

Mo Fox: Poems

03/05/2012

A Thousand Pockets Ah well, I remember you kissed weirdly because you used hold your big cat eyes open, watching me as we did it. I used close mine but opened them to watch you as we did it....

Hannah Cohen: Child Bride

27/04/2012

Hannah Cohen’s debut album Child Bride seems a fitting April/May release for those of us that are struggling through transition of the awkward weather and mishaps of general life, but should you...

George Harrison: Early Takes Volume One

23/04/2012

'a light hand on production, a closeness and immediacy, and a simplicity that is utterly seductive', George Harrison's Early Takes reviewed. An accompaniment to the DVD release of Martin...

Trioscapes: Separate Realities

18/04/2012

If there is a musical equivalent of preservation instinct, it would kick in for most people when jazz and metal meet that most portentious word: fusion. When the proposition involves just drums, bass...

Yppah: 81

13/04/2012

An attempt to recreate or capture the melodic theme to his own childhood, Yppah (Joe Corrales Jr) named this album 81 to reflect the year of his birth. Childhood musical influences usually tend...

Two Wings: Love’s Spring

06/04/2012

Such a challenging album is Love's Spring by Two Wings, and yet how very rewarding. It's enough to prompt the staunchest pragmatist to Confucius/Yoda pronouncements. Drivel on the nature of...

Bang On!: [Sic]

26/03/2012

And, like many gobby kids with a sharp wit and an audience, he gets carried away at times. 'Picking fatties with big racks/ to lick their piss flaps/ like Johnny Vegas in drag' flies past, sexist and...

Anomie Belle: Interview

14/03/2012

Scheduled for release on April 2nd, Yppah's Eighty One is an album of glossy synth texture and crunching gravel percussion. Reflecting Yppah's move to southern California to be closer to the...

Decibels: The Lesser [single]

09/03/2012

There's a touch of the schoolboy band about Decibels, mainly from the promotional onesheet in which they describe themselves as '5 misfits, finding each other in the woods around...

Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

02/03/2012

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

The British Expeditionary Force: Interview

17/02/2012

With scant weeks to go before the March release of their album Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu, The British Expeditionary force are at that tricky pre-publicity point in their album campaign. A spring...

Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech

12/02/2012

Calling upon Kwes to produce, Big Dada apply a sonic approach to Speech Debelle's return album that, even this early in the producer's career, tends towards formulaic. It's there right at...

The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

11/02/2012

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

Straylings: Interview

06/02/2012

Vulpine and ragged, dropping effortlessly from the plaintive minors of her upper range down to throaty growlings all earthy and powerful, Straylings' Dana Zeera throws her voice around in ways...

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