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Music

Dylan Mondegreen

Dylan Mondegreen [Album Review]

02/10/2012

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

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Microbial Music, Biomechanical Bebop

01/10/2012

Microbes make music. And it's not bad either....

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Loitered Lens: Howlin’ Rain

01/10/2012

They started firing shots from the guitar like armour piercing rounds, and with that you just knew this was going be jaw-droppingly brilliant. ...

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Nico: The End [Reissue]

29/09/2012

A tragic end to a tragic life. Carl Batson on the life and career of Nico, in time for the reissue of her album, The End...

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Bong [Album Reissue]

28/09/2012

Bong's self-titled debut album was always a pain to get hold of. Which is why they're re-releasing the doom metal classic on Ritual Productions...

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Dexys [Live]

27/09/2012

Taking to the stage under a cloak of near darkness, a simple piano plays the first bars of ‘Now’ before Rowland’s unmistakable voice cuts through like a razor, steeped in memories of anguish,...

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Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze [EP]

25/09/2012

'one of the most brutally honest emotional floods in music', Dum Dum girls channel heartbreak into deftly crafted indie pop....

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The Meteors: Doing the Lord’s Work

25/09/2012

Will The Meteors bring anything new to the Psychobilly genre? What if they bring samples and a cover version of 'Paranoid'. What then, flat-top?...

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As I Lay Dying: Awakened

24/09/2012

Awakened lacks the complexity of an August Burns Red record, but also manages to avoid the overly commercial pitfalls of later-era Killswitch Engage material. What it does offer is a balanced...

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Loitered Lens: Van Susans

23/09/2012

Strong vocals and elaborate melodies resulted from the groups' ingenious use of electric and acoustic guitars, with a touch of violin played by Holly McLatchie. Olly Andrews carries the whole...

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[Listen] The Zolas

22/09/2012

It's feeling like Canada week at Trebuchet, what with Stuart Gadd's missive from the great wild north at Festival de Musiques Emergentes in Quebec, and Mode Moderne announcing their UK dates...

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DJ Stingray: Psyops for Dummies EP

22/09/2012

'The Sadist' is edgy from the outset and a great scene-setter. Constantly intensifying cold textures coil around an atmospheric voice sample, discreetly hinting at various dark scenarios. As it...

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Free Download: Nils Frahm

21/09/2012

Falling out of a bunkbed and smashing up a digit would be inconvenient for anyone. For a pianist though, it's disaster. Nevertheless, if Django Reindhardt could manage to relearn to play guitar after...

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Theatre of the Mind

21/09/2012

JULIUS is a multi-screen film, in which Roman Emperor Julius Caesar triggers the protagonists’ obsessions. His world of thoughts is shared with the audience. Reality and dream worlds are presented...

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Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

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King Mob: Interview

18/09/2012

Side effects of the full King Mob experience may include: drowsiness, delirium, radio poisoning, severe hair growth, waxy pallor, vitriol spray, flushing, unexpected time manipulation and space...

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Inside Out: Anton Corbijn on film

17/09/2012

Inside Out attempts a look at who the man is, truly believing itself as presenting some insight. To a degree, yes, but the documentary is ultimately unfulfilling, choosing just one aspect of his...

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Satan’s Wrath: Galloping Blasphemy

17/09/2012

it's fun, it's heavy, and the over the top Satanic lyrics are often hilarious. By no means should Satan's Wrath hang up their goat-skull helmets and battleaxes any time soon. It'd just be nice if...

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Jeff The Brotherhood [Live]

14/09/2012

Jeff The Brotherhood are amongst the new wave of noisy duos to create a substantial buzz. Although the Nashville band have now been in existence for more than a decade - including drummer Jamin's...

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[Video] A Winged Victory for the Sullen

13/09/2012

A Winged Victory for the Sullen's 'Requiem For The Static King Part One' directed by Christopher Hewitt...

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[Listen] The New Union

13/09/2012

Brighton's The New Union combine the better bits of The Macabees and Coldplay in a joyous single 'Without You', out on October 8th (Two Sisters Records). Details of where to catch them live are at...

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2:54 Cover Adamski/Seal

12/09/2012

When ZTT bit the dust, Seal went from being an edgy urban electronica act to something more akin to a one-man Lighthouse Family. That said, 2:54 have channeled the bleak and sterile undertones of...

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Redrails [Album]

12/09/2012

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...

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Rupert Stroud [Single]

10/09/2012

Putting in the miles, sofabeds and service-station all-day breakfasts, Rupert Stroud has been touring hard in the UK all summer. All grist to the mill, and meaning that when 'Twisted Games' and 'No...

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Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

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Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

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Loitered Lens: Taragano Theatre

09/09/2012

Carl Byron Batson captures the passion of Taragano Theatre's ​Chrysalis. They played together with the combination of the deep, soulful tones of the cello and the higher pitched breathy sound of...

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David Lynch : Crazy Clown Time [Deluxe Edition]

08/09/2012

David Lynch is a deft practitioner of ‘Vagueness of form’, as so evidently witnessed in Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Firewalk With Me, and, in fact - all his films. Crazy Clown Time uses a mixture...

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[Listen] Matmos release Schwarz Remix

07/09/2012

Matmos' forthcoming 'Very Large Green Triangles' has been remixed by Baltimore producer Schwarz in aid of the Maryland Food Bank The track can be purchased from Matmos' Bandcamp for a voluntary...

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Zed Bias - Heavy Water Riddim

Zed Bias – Heavy Water Riddim [Listen]

06/09/2012

There are overtones of Amon Tobin, the Zatoichi rhythm sequences and of course Matthew Herbert in the track - so if those names mean anything give it go. ...

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