Label Focus #22: Accidental Records
We turn our attention this time to Accidental Records, the eclectic indie (as in independent) label founded by Matthew Herbert»
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Grandaddy - Excerpts From The Diary Of Todd Zilla
After the bore-fest of their last LP ‘Sumday’, we’ve waited over two years for something new to shake us out of our one-pace induced coma. Obviously realising that time waits for no beard, Jason Lyttle knocked off this mini-album for us in the meantime.»
(Review of nothing)
Given how things were left in 1996 at that awful quasi-Stone Roses show at the Reading Festival, it’s quite a feat he’s got this far. For him to be able to serve us this, a bonafide greatest hits album, is quite miraculous.»
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
‘With Love And Squalor’ stands up as a fist pumping, hip rotating roar of an LP. And to be honest, it’s somewhat refreshing to peer across the ocean for our indie thrills, really it is. You’d be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn.»
Editors - Bullets
As the vogue for re-releases continue, it’s time for Editors to step up to the plate again with the single that kicked it all off way back in, erm… January this year.»
Elbow - Forget Myself
It must be great being in Elbow. No pressure, no hype no hipster overload: just a remit to make constantly sparkling torch-pop behemoth songs.»
The Rakes - Capture/Release
The Rakes' debut 'Capture/Release' is near faultless and the best album the London quartet could have possibly made. As a state of the nation diatribe, it’s spot on and bleakly wonderful.»
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
The Alkaline Trio's fifth LP 'Crimson' is punk pop pulled towards an adult world, given a macabre make over that manages to avoid the singular silliness of the likes of AFI and dunked in a vat of sugary sweet pop brilliance.»
A Month in Records: May 2005
So this is June... and what have you done? So said a paraphrased John Jimbo Lennon... But more to the point - what happened to May? And what did you hear and buy? Cos last month offered a fine slew of exciteable recorded joys. Here's a selection of May items to mull over...»
Embrace go super-size
Proof that phoenix' do exist, Embrace are to finish off a quite impressive 2005 by playing their biggest headline gigs ever this December.»
Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
Fact: Oasis have not made a good record for almost ten years. TEN YEARS. That's a very long time to be mediocre.»
DiS announces DiS stage at Wireless '05!
Drowned in Sound announce our very own Drowned in Sound Stage at this year's Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, London town.»
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much Love
A billion albums into his career and one knows what to expect from Smog.»
Funeral For A Friend - Streetcar
Unchanged, undimmed, Funeral For A Friend drag themselves kicking and scream(o)ing back onto the frontline.»
The Futureheads - Decent Days And Nights
The Futureheads finally earn the public acclaim that had evaded them up until Christmas, and to prove it, they're going to re-release an overlooked single treasure...»
The Coral - In The Morning
Sometimes the best things in life are the simple ones. Of course, it's usually the case of the best things are actually the devillishly brilliant ones.»
Maximo Park - Graffiti
Ah Maxeemo Park. Let us count the ways in which we think you're great.»
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
The task for HHH is to come back with an album that's as good as if not better than 'Make Up The Break Down'. Quite a task, given that 'MUTBD' was great...»
Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
Expectancy grows and chattering builds to a deafening cacophony. The answer from Coldplay? There is none. The solution? Explain that it means nothing, glorious, sweet f**k all.»
Tegan & Sara - So Jealous
Five years ago, they would have called it Dawsons Creek Music. Now however, the catch-all term for indie with a big gay heart is OC Music - funny how the barometer of taste changes, yet the songs they use do not.»
Hal - Play The Hits
Ah Hal, you've caught us on a good day. The weather's warm, the spring's here and the sun's streaming through the windows of the DiS office. It truly is a time made for the latest Hal single.»
Modey Lemon and Roland Shanks for Club Seal this Friday!
London's most mentalist indie club, Club Seal has announced special guest headliners for this week - Rock n Roll US sh!t kickers Modey Lemon, plus up and coming art poppers Roland Shanks from London town.»
We Are Scientists at London Islington Bar Academy, Mon 04 Apr
We Are Scientists hit britain...»
thisGIRL headline DiS Marquee night, April 18th
DiS' very own thisGIRL headline April's Marquee Oxfam show, and in addition to that, we can offer you the dueling delights of the ace !Forward, Russia!, Peace Burial At Sea and Termites. It's all good. It really is. and it's FREE!
Get on the free list for tonight by mailing thisgirl@disrecords.com»
burningpilot - It's The Music (they're dancing to) / Can't Kid A Kidder
burningpilot are from the latest stable that brought you Subways, Mystery Jets and Ladyfuzz, and though they may all have truckloads of indie cool, there's none quite so cool as these lot.»
Morrissey - Redondo Beach / There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Who would have thought, eighteen months ago that Moz would be releasing a valedictory live album of a sell-out date at Earl's Court?»
(Review of nothing)
Day two in Austin, and as the sun comes out to play, so do the big boys. It's British invasion day, so we tie knots in the corners of our hankie and head off to see what the Americans think about seeing what all the fuss is about...»
The Subways - Oh Yeah
So easy would it be to tell you that The Subways' latest single 'Oh Yeah' is a classic tale of small town boredom set to an infectious hook-laden thrash, it would be almost pointless to say.»
Punish The Atom, The Cribs, Hot Chip at Austin SXSW 2005, Wed 16 Mar
Day one of the SXSW music convention and it's bloody cold in Austin, which is rather disappointing. Fortunately however, the bands aren't...»
Beck - E-Pro
The latest single by Beck sounds distinctly honest, which for the genre-hopping West Coaster, is quite a feat. And it’s all the better for it.»