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Lupen Crook – Waiting for the Post-Man

31/07/2011

Dark poetry is blended with Goth folk in an attempt to produce a subtle emotive sound. However this self-infatuated and fatuous musical narrative is really just a simple and desperate plea for your...

S.C.U.M. – Electrowerkz 13th July

29/07/2011

S.C.U.M weave noise and wonder. S.C.U.M. have built something that few bands ever manage, mystery. Dazzling the UK press isn’t as easy as one imagines and in many cases is dependant on winning...

Emika – Pretend/Professional Loving

28/07/2011

After her interpretation of Amon Tobin's 'Surge', Emika's Pretend' comes as something of an uneasy shock. The track is taken from her forthcoming album, entitled simply...

Into the Unknown: Youth Lagoon – July

27/07/2011

Usually when I come to write this piece I put the featured song on the stereo and engross my mind in it, trying to glean every nuance and groove from the song, no need this time. I believe I’ve...

Sonar 2011: Triumph of the Hype.

25/07/2011

It's a sad if not tragic irony that a“Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art” should (also) be the site of mass cultural and social regression, but the longer you spend at...

Klive – Sweaty Psalms

22/07/2011

Nothing if not ambitious, the scope of Klive's debut album overwhelms. Originally self-released in 2008, Klive's Sweaty Psalms is now enjoying a European release via Mille Plateaux, offering...

Raffertie – Visual Acuity EP

12/07/2011

Raffertie’s compositional ambitions happen on a grand scale – at times his basslines have at the warping boom of pedal-timpany; at other times they use pitch-bend to underpin the melodies...

Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror

06/07/2011

Crystal Antlers find liberation in music's current chaos. Adaptation to the realities of the music market in 2011 is something of a Darwinian exercise. Freetards lurking in the comment feeds of...

Brilliant Colours – Again and Again

30/06/2011

Brilliant Colours teeter on the edge of the indie landfill. Knowing where homage ends and derivative starts is the responsibility of the band – in this case it would be very generous to give...

Cults – Cults

29/06/2011

Christ on a bike, this takes me back a bit. The inexplicable thing is, though, it takes me back to something I’ve never experienced. Weird, no? I’m not trying to instigate a protracted...

Godflesh, D.R.I., and Goatsnake – HMV Forum

27/06/2011

Three bands, over 100 years of combined musical history, one night. Godflesh, D.R.I. and Goatsnake deliver. "Who the fuck are Goatsnake?" Screams a pot bellied Swiss chemist at the...

Morta Skuld – Through the Eyes of Death – The Early Demos

26/06/2011

Morta Skuld's demos are a time capsule to a musical history which never happened. Difficult though it is for filesharing apologists to countenance, the pre-Napster period of the 1990s was a...

Shifted – Control EP

25/06/2011

It would be easy to dismiss the tracks on this EP as uninspired minimal techno, droning morosely along, amassing texture by layering beats at nodal points and squirting atmospheric keyboard chords...

Into the Unknown: Jamie XX – Far Nearer

23/06/2011

I tried to avoid it again this month, the semi big name, the rising star that everyone’s watching, but sometimes the masses are right. There’s been rumblings that he’s ripping off...

Wiley – 100% Publishing

21/06/2011

'East London grime credibility or West Coast glamour, who cares? Just PICK ONE and get on with it!' ...

Emptyset feat. Corneileus Harris – All Together Lost Remixes EP

21/06/2011

Emptyset live up to their name with the sparse minimalism of 'All Together Lost' 'All Together Lost' is innocuous and inoffensive trancey, minimal house music, but what else is there...

The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual

20/06/2011

For their fifth studio album, Detroit heavy weights The Black Dahlia Murder have remained true to what they do best. Namely blasting out high energy, heavy and powerful melodic death metal. The album...

Plant Plants – Plant Plants EP

19/06/2011

First growth bears sweet fruit… Skimming through titles, you might suspect that ‘Plant Plants’ indicated gardening instructions for absolute beginners. Though their name is...

Wolf People – Steeple

18/06/2011

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...

Savage Nomads, Don’t Wait Animate, White Powder Gold – Live

15/06/2011

The constant hybridisation of music is the fuel that drives innovation. The problem is that decontextualising sounds and themes from other genres can make them meaningless or seem weakly pastiche,...

Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem 3

15/06/2011

The Pacific Northwest meets the rest of the world… strange things happen… Before I commence, I feel I ought to issue an important warning – be VERY careful if trying to Google...

Amon Tobin – Surge EP

13/06/2011

Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues....

David J Roch – Skin and Bone

12/06/2011

Colliding the wonderment of tragedy and the bewildering virtue of romantic love, these songs are not lullabies. They are raw emotions straight from your nerve endings. Every so often an album comes...

Rival Consoles – Kid Velo

11/06/2011

Rival Consoles' Kid Velo has the beats and builds of anthemic house, but it's more Paul Hardcastle than Paul Oakenfold. Now that GaGa has got her hands on sidechain compression and synth...

Ukkonen – Erriapo (EP)

10/06/2011

Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you...

SubMachena – Sta Luego Dub

07/06/2011

Dub maybe a niche concern but SubMachena give us enough to warrant a fresh look at the genre. Robin Taylor-Firth and Rawle Bruce may be better known as Olive (See You’re Not Alone) when they...

Claire Nicolson – The Wheelbarrow

05/06/2011

In the hip but friendly atmosphere of Camden’s Wheelbarrow, UK singer/songwriter Claire Nicolson emerges with a chunky acoustic guitar strapped to her frame. She’s effortlessly confident...

Ofelia Dorme – All Harm Ends Here

05/06/2011

Sumptuously restrained album by a little known Italian band that have enough originality to move an audience into sweet oblivion. It’s rare to hear an album as well produced as this. Everything...

Wet Paint – Woe

04/06/2011

Life, like wet paint, is messy. It's painful, it's colourful too. Sometimes it comes in one colour. Sometimes it's black. We all have our ups and downs. It seems Wet Paint have had a...

Pleq – Ballet Mechanic

02/06/2011

Echoes, textures and the subtle hint of melody; the ambient music formula is rarely relevant. With 'Ballet Mechanic' Pleq wins against the odds. Contemporary ambient music has no place in a...

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