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At the tail end of last year The Sea and Cake released their ninth album proper, Runner. Jon Falcone chats to Sam Prekop about four year old drummers, the Chicago scene, and keeping it simple...»
The Young Dreams formula thrills, but only once.»
Awards is a hydrogen bomb of an album.»
Apparat has always approached music from interesting angles, combining styles and modes into electronic music with deft and rewarding vigour. But his work until now can only be seen as preparing the ground for this body of work, an album so satisfying, accomplished and beautiful.»
For three very fine compositions there is too much pink-plonk that might only grab you in a live setting.»
Cuddly Shark are clearly happy to set their stall as music for music’s sake. »
This album has so much and asks very little. It doesn’t ask you to focus on it and is perfectly happy to wash under you as a background as unobtrusive as any ditty Eric Satie playfully composed.»
It’s evident from the atmosphere that as the lights continue to flash and the cowbell donks to the very end, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming really has provided many people with a journey to remember.»
When Björk has to dole out her tracks to an eclectic army of remixers to sound even slightly normal - and in the process sounds stunning – her talent shows itself to be so big it’s almost hilarious.»
The only reason Music From Another Dimension will stop you is to turn around for a refund.»
Normally the reserve of corporate events or thin-rimmed spectacles and champagne, for four nights the Soho Gallery will host a culture clash between a UK and Spanish electronic artist. Each artist will set out their stand and give the audience examples of»
Best enjoyed by those who are able to take this as a polished trip down memory lane or as a launch pad to jump back into the history of dance music.»
It’s rare to hear abandon sound so good.»
All The Nations Airports feels like an album born of negativity. It’s frequently a superb listen and often a real eye opener for its jerks and shocks, but it's an album to brace yourself for.»
An album that surely marks another high point, but not a crest, for a band of prolonged excellence.»
Gothenburg native Jens Lekman has long been a shape shifter in presentation. September will see ‘I Know What Love Isn’t’ released on Secretly Canadian, it’s another journey to through Jens’s heart; a series encounters, rejections and ponderings.»
A recent piece on this site correctly pointed out the confusion inherent in Lana Del Ray’s cultural mash up and the resultant thinness of the music. White Arrows suffer the same conflict.»
As you enter the festival grounds through the main entrance you pass through a series of coloured banners emblazed with song titles. It feels appropriate that ‘Teenage Wasteland’ greets you with a campsite awash with abandoned tents sprawled out like castaway boat sails – and this is on the first day. However, it’s also clear that everyone is determined to have a good time and if you need a constant beer jacket to make a mud bed bearable then needs must.»
Kitsune is a powerful and fragile album and composes itself with the grace required to step ahead of the current glut of bands that are revisiting the post-rock genre, believing that all that all post-rock requires is distortion pedals and patience.»
Still Flyin’ come from San Francisco and want to bring you the jams, make you dance, place you on the pedestal of indie king as you writhe to their knowingly-coy reggae pop. Or at least that’s what you’d think if you heard their debut, Never Gonna’ Touch The Ground. Released in 2009, following a wave of live shows and up to 15 performers on stage, they embodied a good time – and everyone loves a good time.»
On A Bedroom Wall is a work of music that won’t be matched this year for its pained beauty.»
Telling Tales gladly succumbs to its own whimsy, has no stylistic compass beyond the inherent tones of a female vocal harmony group and is a delightful series of songs that are both beautiful and bizarre. »
Whilst the writing is excellent, the incessant Eighties referencing can tire at points.»
Montauk Variations is an album that charges gracefully through piano and string compositions, using rotations to bring out an endless series of variances to seemingly unmoving patterns and occasionally flitting to overt virtuoso performance.»
A powerful, graceful album.»
This album will infuriate many but bewitch some.»
Each and every year, there are records which slip through the cracks, that individuals who write for the site absolutely adore, yet few others seem to even be aware of. To help highlight a few lost records, a few years ago we invented the Lost List, and ask individuals to write some words explaining why they love the album in question. Next up, Jon Falcone recommends a new project from the chaps once members of hardcore heroes The Promise Ring and CapnJazz... »
Performing in Misty’s Big Adventure must be a liberating experience, a twist of prog, jazz and lounge and northern soul with no ulterior motives beyond writing oddly uplifting songs.»
An album that doesn’t slow down and only occasionally thins out its blanket of distortion, it’s best to be braced when playing Fault Lines.»
Whatwave will document a summer gloriously.»
