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Love Him is classical, jazz, IDM and weirdo drone, often in the course of one song. »
They’re a definitive ‘less is more’ band, 808 State. When they just had some clonky synths and a fresh’n’frightening new batch of records to fuel them, they made flat-out magic a few times. Then they tried to shed their skins, understandably, and got more fiscally solvent, and results varied. You should really know about them, though.»
I want to effect a turn of phrase that gets across exactly how wonderful the Bloc Weekender is. Once again, the three-day jaunt sold out its 5,000-ticket allocation, but if you didn’t go, you NEED to know why you missed out.»
it speaks the international language of ‘pretty good, if you dig this kind of thing’.»
Although this doesn’t quite scale the heights of their two previous LPs, Death Is This Communion and Blessed Black Wings, it shouldn’t be thought of as a point of no return. As ambassadors for metal, High on Fire remain near-peerless.»
It’s a decent snapshot of that nebulous minimal-not-minimal sound at present, but, you know… we’ve got bills to pay.»
Fleurs will be as divisive an album as most of its creators’ past efforts. Some will find it maddeningly gauche and affected; acolytes (most likely, this will be mainly purchased by those who are already fans of one or other member) will probably be very satisfied. The writer duly reduces his position down to a mark out of ten»
You get the impression that Jamie Stewart would bristle at the idea that his music might generate blithe consensus approval.»
Hopefully, those who clamour for a Godspeed! reunion will be quelled by this record.»
The reason for Harvey Milk’s non-release at the time has never been made clear. What is clear is that its 2010 release amounts to much more than Hydra Head swiping for your precious cash by dredging up a band’s nascent fumblings in the name of ‘rarity’. »
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, who we can henceforth refer to by his surname, is one of the most universally fêted dance producers operating out there. Why, this very reviewer stopped just short of calling him a genius [in a DiS review last year] (http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14642/reviews/4137969). Chances are you won’t see many negative reviews of Real Life Is No Cool, the first album collaboration (they issued a couple of 12-inches some years back) between Lindstrøm and vocalist Christabelle, both resident in Norway. The only thing likely to generate dissent is the potentially stultifying consensus – like Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009, anyone not feeling this has to live with it almost all year – but in the here and now, I feel like I’m on the side of truth, brother.»
It might not rearrange your synapses if you already have half a handle on ambient music, but it serves to highlight some folks who are forging enough beauty and intrigue from the genre to strongly maintain its relevance.»
The only musician whom I ever heard say he actively wanted to have his work pigeonholed into a genre was the singer from Six By Se»
Seriously, you numbskulls: if you profess to have any interest in metal and don’t let Black Breath take over your life, you’re doing it wrong.»
When the Lindstrom & Christabelle album lands at the start of next year, this type of wonked-out Eighties-soaked boogie FUNFUNFUN will likely garner wider attention still. You could do a lot worse than using Zevolution as an entry point. »
Graham Massey has been making records for longer than the sapling writing this review has been alive. Some might say this means he»
up with Digital Leather’s mindset, rather than the other way round. You’ll have to dig that archaic keyboard sound to some extent, or you won’t be feeling Warm Brother.»
It’s fair to posit that Mission of Burma are the ultimate example of how rock reformations can be unequivocally A Good Thing.»
If you buy one record this year whose title is possibly a reference to Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons, it should probably be this one»
You’d have to have either incredibly specific or incredibly boring taste to not find some gold herein.»
While not quite as revelatory as 2001’s Jane Doe – the band’s staunchest fans wouldn’t believe such a claim anyway – Axe To Fall makes good with an appetite for reinvention.»
Anyone on the ground floor for the career of Judee Sill, which effectively lasted for about two years in the early Seventies, would have probably assumed that her two albums were destined to be passed-over bargain-bin staples, along with the vast amount of grandly produced MOR folk-rock spawned in that part of the century. Not so. Sill died of an overdose in 1979, having hopped back on the narcotics she previously kicked to attempt a songwriting career, but in her absence her reputation mushroomed; original pressings of Judee Sill and Heart Food are collector gold, and her status as a kind of cult singer-songwriter’s cult singer-songwriter is lent weight by Crayon Angel, a 15-track tribute CD with some of the most lauded voices in indie, folk and indeed indie-folk.»
An epic but worthy 79 minutes long, this album could very well exist for the primary purpose of scaring away listeners fearful of rock’n’roll absurdism.»
It’s basically a noise album, all told, and not many people, even in the Melvins fan camp, like noise albums. However, there are some sturdy examples of how to make unlistenable sadism exciting herein, along with some misfires.»
At The Cut is on one hand vintage Vic, on another a concerted effort to switch up his weathered game. »
There are probably people out there, other than Boredoms supremo Yamantaka Eye, that reckon they can trace some sort of common thr»
Not every selection is a thrill ride, the less-is-more attitude of the fact there are only 13 tracks will split opinion and you could say it’s a bit vain to pluck half the tracks from your own label (albeit mostly unreleased). However it’s hard to see why anyone who likes house, in most of its myriad subgenres, wouldn’t like Fabric 48.»
Even by his own fierce standards, Sasu Ripatti has has been tremendously prolific in the last nine months. Since the release of Co»
Coming from Tel Aviv will more often than not prove to be a hindrance, perhaps a fatal one, if a band might hope to get some recog»
The unlikely but highly commendable decision to give a UK release to the two albums by Eddy Current Suppression Ring means that th»
