Cody_Jeff has written the following articles:
A Speedo LP by any other name is still a Speedo LP, and The Night Marchers were always going to sound more like your expectations than not»
These complex riffs and devastating drum rolls stick with you, but primarily as a taste of where Russian Circles may venture next»
The band have placed a six-minute composition on the internet via YouTube, with the video showcasing a number of tracks from their second album, Life Processes, which is set for an early 2008 release...»
Death Is This Communion slays in all the right places, but had it ventured into some of the wrong places we might’ve had an album really worth dribbling about...»
An insistent throb heartbeats its way through the three-minute toe-tapper that is Les Savy Fav’s announcement of re-emergence...»
The lead single from their fourth long-player Autumn Of The Seraphs, Pinback’s ‘From Nothing To Nowhere’ finds the San Diego-based indie-rockers on their finest form, delivering a distracting three-and-a-half minute gem, punchy and glossy...»
True to form, Canadian pop-rockers Tokyo Police Club’s latest single is another excellently jovial slice of upbeat jangles and hand-clapping try-this-at-home bits. It ain’t rocket science, but that’s its charm. Take a synth and some drums, some shout-happy youths and some guitar riffery straight outta NYC’s coolest clubs, and bingo: this...»
Does the fun of Chromeo’s live set come through on this, their second LP...»
The Icarus Line’s only problem, really, has been their ability to tie members down – now in their nth formation, following another between-album shuffle of personnel (livewire guitarist Aaron North decamped to Nine Inch Nails, presumably for a little peace), the Joe Cardamone-fronted LA outfit have all but ditched the filthy punk of their previous barnstormer of an LP, Penance Soiree, for something considerably more jangly...»
I swear, the first time I heard this second single from Biffy Clyro’s forthcoming Puzzle LP, I thought Snow Patrol had reversed direction and rediscovered their fuck-everything-up roots. What with the superb production – glossy, yet not overly so – drums like bombs and that north-of-the-border burr, I could have sworn Eyes Open had belched forth some secret track as a single...»
The Hold Steady ain’t a bad band. They play piano-aided indie, ideally suited to the backroom of a bar in downtown NYC, perfectly well, and vocalist Craig Finn knows his way around a turn of phrase or five, but they’re a compositional echo of successes past...»
Three minutes of a whole lot of not very much, ‘My Moon My Man’ tells the average non-acolyte listener very little about Leslie Feist’s latest long-player, the already acclaimed The Reminder...»
Dance, punk, dance. It ain’t an option; it’s an instruction, a command. Comply or we’ll set fire to your face on fire to the face on fire fire fire fire...»
Exactly what ‘The Magic Position’ is isn’t ever made totally clear, but contemporary Bowie-alike about town Patrick Wolf is having a ball of a time however crunched and hunched his frail frame...»
We’re all for reinvention here at DiS; heck, we embrace it like a brother. Nothing pleases us more than when Band A morphs into Band M via X and Y between albums, particularly when the band in question is supermassivesuccessful. But this… this is amazing...»
Convulsing wildly from their corner of Melbourne like epileptic kiddie gig-goers fascinated to the point of mouth-foaming spasms by We Are Scientists lighting shows, Damn Arms crash-land properly in the UK with this extended EP...»
Proof positive that the simplest and most unassuming things in music, and beyond, can often be the most perfect...»
With this currently riding high in the UK midweeks, it seems as if Londoners The Holloways are to achieve their biggest hit to date with ‘Generator’; their last single, ‘Two Left Feet’ made number 33 on the British singles chart...»
You’ll feel better once you accept this, really; it will be okay, I promise...»
Ten seconds is all it takes. By then, you’re hooked – sucked in, tumbled about and already dizzied and sore; what follows is pleasure and pain pricking at your senses, delectable and deeply gratifying...»
