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Kindest Lines – Covered in Dust

02/06/2011

Not quite the Dirty South… Kindest Lines are from New Orleans. This, in itself, is totally irrelevant. In spite of the Big Easy’s fine traditions of blues, jazz and southern rock, they...

Mental D-struction – Extrapolation of Human Perspectives

01/06/2011

Swapping guitars and drums for VSTs and sequencers, Mental D-Struction makes the tricky jump to electronica and almost pulls it off. Having high artistic ideals, and creating material which follows...

Sixth June – Back for A Day 12”EP

26/05/2011

Party like it’s 1982… It’s good to be reminded of how young you are sometimes. To any more mature readers of this article, I assure you this isn’t meant as a smug gloating...

Inevitable End – The Oculus

23/05/2011

One of the first words one might use to describe the second album from Sweden’s Inevitable End is schizophrenic. However this is the wrong word. For something to be called schizophrenic...

Anna Calvi, Grouplove, and Big Deal, ride with the NME

22/05/2011

A mixed bag of sugar and saccharine, the NME Emerge tour closed on a high. The NME Emerge tour is about bringing rising stars to new audiences. The cult of the Next Big Thing is alive and well...

David Tort – Jack it Up

22/05/2011

David Tort’s ‘Jack it Up’ promises ‘a tempestuous sea of dark synths’ but actually delivers ‘a turgid canal of muddy loops’. With pretensions to dancefloor...

Weekend Nachos – Worthless

19/05/2011

Weekend Nachos - Worthless - Relapse Records 2011...

Hexstatic – Scan Me EP

18/05/2011

Trailer Trax's 'Scan Me' EP wallows so deeply in the 1990s that it ought to be buried in a time capsule with a Sega Megadrive and a Blue Peter badge. 'The music business has...

Into the Unknown: tUnE-yArDs – Bizness

17/05/2011

This is what happens when you're blindsided by a song so great it should be hugely popular? I was not quite sure which way to go this month. I thought that by the time this went online this tune...

Gold-Bears – Are You Falling in Love?

16/05/2011

What's that sound in my ears? The Gold-Bear's debut album is messing with my head. And my hands are dancing too! The Gold-Bears have been developing their sound for a number of years. Formed...

Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

13/05/2011

Travelling through the past’s future: Sarah Jarosz cuts a timeless album of particular appeal. Singer-songwriter acoustic music is the bane of my existence. Plucked chords and soaring female...

Slugabed – Moonbeam Rider EP

11/05/2011

Can Slugabed's quirky beats and basslines inject new life into pre-packed dancefloor anthem hooks? Perhaps. Slugabed's Moonbeam Rider EP comes from the mind of a musician who has spent a lot...

Blank Dogs – Collected By Itself: 2006-2009

09/05/2011

The first steps are always the hardest… Some bands can take a while to focus their ideas. So it was with Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs. Nowadays, they are a spellbindingly opaque mix of...

Austerlitz – Austerlitz

08/05/2011

How soon is too soon. Parisian indie rockers Austerlitz go for bronze. Austerlitz have rushed to release a record that with a couple of months worth of emphatic development would have been...

Bloodiest – Descent

07/05/2011

How often when listening to a new metal band do you stick on the record, sit through it for the duration then ask yourself the question, “What the fuck?” For me that doesn’t happen...

Dutch Uncles – Cadenza

05/05/2011

So NME accuse this album of 'musical incompetence' and being 'baffling', whilst The Fly go with 'one of 2011's most exciting prospects'. Things are already juicy....

//Tense// – Escape or Soundscape?

01/05/2011

“Your official diagnosis is schizophrenic psychosis…” drones a machine on the title track of Escape, the new EP from Tense. Sounds cool. Sounds ominous. But am I tense? Words mean...

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis – Bull and Gate

30/04/2011

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis promote their new album 'Smoking in Heaven' at the Bull and Gate. I found the Bull and Gate by following a trail of polka dot skirts, red lipstick and rockabilly...

TOKiMONSTA engulfs with dreamy texture.

28/04/2011

TOKiMONSTA has odd and beautiful dreams, apparently. Brace yourself, as she treats us to a musical retelling. According to L.A. Weekly, Jennifer Lee (aka TOKiMONSTA) is Los Angeles' premier...

Amon Tobin – Isam

24/04/2011

Recreational users beware: claustrophobic and frustrating, is the new Amon Tobin album worth the risk?...

Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – 100 Club

22/04/2011

Underground legend Kid Congo Powers headed a night of Nugget’s era golden rock and roll....

Dels – Gob

17/04/2011

Fear, righteous anger, too much booze and a boldly-drawn emotional vision, this debut from Dels wraps the disorientation of over-intelligent urban British youth into forty minutes of poetic and...

Red Fang – Murder the Mountains

17/04/2011

Behavioural Psychologists ponder the nature versus nurture argument frequently. The extremes of the argument state that when a person is born is it purely their genes that determine what they become...

The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work

16/04/2011

In my book, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a bit weird. Though I tend to apply this maxim a little too broadly in personal terms, when it comes to music, the best acts are, more...

Into the Unknown: Fists – Stag

14/04/2011

I write for the unsung heroes I hear! I’ve been asked to write this column once a month on a single of my choice and with so much writing out there it’s worth thinking why. I’m...

Aleph – Haunt For Little Blind Fish

11/04/2011

Armed with a bag of glitch, can Aleph's four-track EP convince us of this Siberian instrumentalist's intent? What happens when musicians break free of the limitations of physical instruments...

Start and Complete – Complete at the start?

09/04/2011

About Group's new album “Start and Complete” is an experiment in spontaneity. A fine idea, but does spontaneity really breed better music? When About Group got together to record...

Alphabets Heaven – Jay’s Odyssey

07/04/2011

On King Deluxe, Jonny Wildey's album gets truly glitched-up, but who's in control – the producer or the genre? The temptation when a genre is defined by a simple trait is for the artist...

Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Despise You (Split) – and on and on

04/04/2011

Pressing play on a record like this is like activating an electric death chair with chainsaws for legs. Despise You are Hardcore. Not so much genre defining but genre defined; every note they...

Quones by Global Goon

02/04/2011

In terms of a modern musical fantasy it’s hard to beat the idea of sharing a house at one point with both Richard James (of Aphex Twin fame) and, Mr Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson. Aside from what...

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