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Make no mistake – Waiting For You is hardly the kind of record that grabs and demands your undivided attention. Instead it offers gems buried deep amongst its cityscape’s gently fluorescing streetlamps and slow-moving traffic, crafting a distinctive, defiantly twenty-first century urban soul music that, given due care and attention, leaves an afterglow simmering long after the CD spins to a halt.»
When all is stripped away what’s left is essentially the opposite of Robert Jarvik’s famed invention: a warm, beating heart, intrinsically mechanical but terrifyingly fragile.»
Even by his usual prolific standards, this summer was a productive time for Finnish electronic maestro Sasu Ripatti. Fresh from a professed desire to move to a more organic and increasingly ‘physical’ mode of music-making, Ripatti’s diffuse percussion wor»
In the hands of many other artists, White Lunar would be a career-high achievement. It’s testament to Cave and Ellis’ ongoing relevance that it can be released with relatively minimal fanfare – presumably with the knowledge that it’s merely the tip of a mighty, mighty iceberg. »
It’s difficult to know how to rate Senso, and it feels a shame to reduce it to a mere number. There’s much to be found lurking in its dreamlike middle states.»
Memoryhouse is about as appropriate as they come, a description of a set of pieces that fully explore their interconnections as though reminiscing on a life well lived.»
Do Make Say Think’s sixth full-length Other Truths was released this week, to almost universal acclaim. Such reception is well des»
Where he fits into our post-everything glut of cultural detritus is a mystery at this point, but it’s of little consequence - Shackleton is a unique musician, and Three EPs is a fully immersive experience.»
That Do Make Say Think have achieved this lofty standard yet again shouldn’t come as a shock, yet it’s testament to their enduring talent that, at every turn, Other Truths continues to surprise and enthrall in equal measure.»
Moving away from the harp-dominated textures of her appropriately named debut Battle & Victory – a gauntlet thrown down for this follow-up to match, which it does with aplomb – Wrought Iron sees Elizabeth continues to explore the possibilities of fleshing out the most skeletal of folk standard templates through unconventional instrumentation. »
Not so preoccupied with direct progression as with the distillation and refinement of their already well-realised manifesto, the trio sound rejuvenated and, if anything, even more vital for their years spent in the solo project wilderness. »
Metronomy’s EP follow-up to last year’s Nights Out is one of those funny, stopgap beasts. »
Time flies when you’re having fun, or so it it is said. And Yo La Tengo would certainly appear to be having fun at the moment. It »
A couple of months ago, sometime Efterklang collaborator Peter Broderick released the quite outstanding Music For Falling From Tre»
The influence of Jamaica on Britain’s current musical landscape - specifically in the aftermath of the post-rave electronic explos»
If there is a perennial struggle in the world of dance music that will be repeated over and over again on endless occasions, it’s »
The debates over the hardcore continuum that have set the blogosphere alight in the last year or so, plus my own recent forays thr»
To take a detour around its use in classical music entirely, the violin, whilst a standard in folk circles, amongst the indie comm»
Acoustic Ladyland’s latest is the next step in a series of records that has taken them progressively further from their roots as a jazz band, insofar as the J-word can be used to describe what they do. From the squalling fuzz of their breakthrough, 2005’s Last Chance Disco, through third long-player Skinny Grin’s fusion of foreboding atmospherics and guest vocals, there has always been a certain willingness to mix things up and incorporate ideas from diverse areas and genres.»
Into The Hillside does have a very Californian feel, aurally referencing a whole host of West Coast influences that in places feel like pretty uneasy bedfellows.»
