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Yann Novak – Presence

28/10/2011

Electronic music is now more ubiquitous than schoolboy garage rock bands ever were. And where schoolboy garage bands once plagued their classmates into spending Saturday evenings at church halls and...

Hectic Zeniths – 2011 Album Review

26/10/2011

Hectic Zeniths are playing a dangerous game. It’s hard to describe the sound that pervades these tracks without recalling two very famous albums, the very mention of which is likely to...

Kid Koala – Space Cadet

24/10/2011

Typical. You wait all year for an album playing on the sound of the internal mechanisms of the piano, and then two turn up within a fortnight. On first impressions, Kid Koala's Space Cadet...

DJ Food. Magpies, Maps and Moons EP & Live Review

21/10/2011

DJ Food – Magpies, Maps and Moons EP If nothing else, DJ Food provides NinjaTune with continuity. By now verging on the status of a legacy act, the item has been around as long as the label...

Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, an American avant-garde music group from San Francisco, performing at Williamsburg Music Hall, Brooklyn, New York, May 30, 2009. Photo: ampersandyslexia (wiki)

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

19/10/2011

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

Head Cat – Live London 2011

17/10/2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder. Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

Moodymanc Vs Jamie Finlay – People Circulate

15/10/2011

Development Music make much of their artists' Manchester provenance in the promotional literature accompanying this release. Even the artist's name really wants to be sure you know where he...

Maguett – Twilight EP

14/10/2011

Brace yourselves, Moscow-based musical technician Maguett has been tricking about with a PowerMac between lectures and is about to unleash 'a brand new monument called IBM : Intelligent...

Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

Nils Frahm – Felt

10/10/2011

Pianists's fingers knurl and bulge with the same blunt mutantcy as freshly-dug jerusalem artichokes. Easy as it is to imagine the rigours on the hands of Prokofiev's yard-long keyboard...

Jim Stapley – 100 Club

09/10/2011

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent. Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

Real Estate – Days

06/10/2011

Real Estate. Even the name is dull. Recently signed to Domino records, Real Estate's second album – Days – is something of an anomaly in a label roster which boasts the freeform...

Paul Catten – Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics

30/09/2011

Paul Catten - Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics...

Macks Faulkron – Friends EP

26/09/2011

As much as sixties psychedelia has been artlessly plundered by last month's media darlings, Best Coast, it seems only logical that the 90s re-visioning of that movement be picked over in the...

Into the Unknown: Radiohead – Good Evening Mrs Magpie

25/09/2011

There’s one thing about dance music and that is it tends to divide people. Dance music is seen by some as a lesser ‘Techno Techno’ form of music, devoid of intellect and not up to...

Hevy festival 2011 – review

24/09/2011

Starring Dillinger Escape Plan, Architects, Funeral for a Friend, and Bouncing Souls, the third year of Hevy proves that festivals are an astounding musical democracy. Set near the Folkestone...

Pure X – Pleasure

14/09/2011

Summer echoes… Don’t you just loathe the term shoegaze? As far as categorisations go, you can’t get much lazier than trying to sum up a band’s entire raison d’etre by...

Summon the Crows – One More For the Gallows

09/09/2011

Growling through concrete Norsk pounders test the rope. 'One More For the Gallows' is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Summon the Crows. The album contains 10...

Winter – Into Darkness

08/09/2011

A fingernail through the cellophane, Winter lets out the night. Originally released in 1990 and widely considered to be a cult classic, Into Darkness from New York outfit Winter is now being...

Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta

07/09/2011

Hypnotic? Delta guitar driven purges by ascending maestro. The term 'hypnotic' is one that is bandied about far too often in music reviews, a kind of catch-all term for any number of...

Bong – Beyond Ancient Space

06/09/2011

Beyond Ancient Space is the most recent release from Psychedelic Minimalist Doom band Bong. Many people believe a bands name should be a reflection on their music and with Bong, you can pretty...

Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

31/08/2011

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

Sonisphere, UK 2011: Giant Slayer Or Fish Out Of Water?

26/08/2011

This years Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, boasted one of the greatest line-ups I have ever seen at any British music festival. With their highly anticipated first ever visit...

Bloodstock 2011

24/08/2011

Blinded by the righteous black Bloodstock 2011 gathers the tribes. ...

The Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

23/08/2011

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

Jono McCleery – There Is

19/08/2011

Jono McCleery delivers a classic album in There Is. SBTRKT, Jamie Woon, hell, even Radiohead. The fan of beguiling male vocals set against beats is suddenly well-catered for. Jono McCleery's...

Hey Colossus – RRR

09/08/2011

Some albums create such a palpable atmosphere of pure rebellious force they create a burning sensation in your chest; Hey Colossus’ RRR is rock and roll firewater....

Dalston Riot: DELS (featuring Roots Manuva) – Capsize

08/08/2011

As this review is being written, Tweetdeck's pop-up window appears repeatedly to comment on the Tottenham, now Dalston, and seemingly soon-to-be Hackney riots. The tweets range in their tone from...

The Antlers – Burst Apart

02/08/2011

Burst Apart is the musical equivalent of a fly hitting your car windscreen while you're driving the motorway en-route to what is sure to be a great party with good mates. For a very brief moment...

Sabi/Kiyo – 71:36

01/08/2011

Sabi and Kiyo add yet more megabytes to the IDM glut. Force Intel is a sublabel of Mille Plateaux, the latter's management choosing to found a new imprint as a release platform for the music they...

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