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by Gideon Brody
The Devil's Walk can be as persuasive and intoxicating as you want it to be. »
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by Gideon Brody
Fluffy, nicer to say than it is to think about, and bizarrely, more memorable than stuff that's qualitatively better than it.»
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by Gideon Brody
As people pour out into refreshingly cool streets, there's the very real sense that part three of this story can't come soon enough.»
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by Gideon Brody
Zomby, with record number two, Dedication, proves two things: why he's different, and why he may well be one of dubstep's, and music's, brightest flames.»
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by Gideon Brody
Blanck Mass is a thoughtful, yet open-minded voyage, likely to reciprocate whatever you're willing to put into it. »
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by Gideon Brody
A night that had the makings of a classic got stuck somewhere in the making.»
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by Gideon Brody
Besides the pop successes and rank disappointments, The Orchard is still curious and pretty enough to be worth exploring.»
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by Gideon Brody
While nowhere near as nourishing as an album like Feast Of Wire, Howe Gelb has delved a little deeper into himself with Alegrias.»
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by Gideon Brody
A very solid card from the first bell to the last and about the best postcard from Paris you can buy that comes with a CD/vinyl/download(?) in it.»
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by Gideon Brody
While Animal Collective and Sun Airway currently share very different trajectories, the vapour trails left by their individual takes on hazy-but-hopeful electronica do criss-cross quite a bit. »
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by Gideon Brody
Before the gig even started, it had all the makings of a classic. Aside from the bitterly cold winter's night, a number of things »
In Depth by Gideon Brody
Befitting an odyssey that is unencumbered by pretty much anything, Sufi doesn't lean on any particular genre for very long. Despite its loner, stoner aesthetic and its loosely-strung SoCal hip hop framework, Sufi holds out its callused and nail-bitten, tar-stained hands in an embrace that can't possibly exclude. This is a record that defies compartmentalisation, and spends its near hour-long length defying expectation. What you think will come next, invariably doesn't. But what does come next invariably feels right; like Ecks set out to make the most incoherently coherent record he could.. and succeeded.»
In Depth by Gideon Brody
For those that only know about Oxegen, Electric Picnic is the other major Irish festival and the country's closest answer to Glastonbury. Sure, it has little of Worthy Farm's tradition (it only began in 2004), but that needn't preclude it from feeling special. It has a similarly well-balanced mix of music, culture/arts, fun stuff and pretty decent food. The Stradbally Estate setting is beautiful, and there's a decent crowd of beery lads'n'lasses and middle class wine-quaffers to make things lively, but never rowdy.»
In Depth by Gideon Brody
On the face of it, staging a festival in Ireland, in September, just as we approach autumn/say goodbye to summer, is well... pretty baffling. Only the most optimistic individuals will be travelling to the verdant fields of County Laois, Benicassim-light. »
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by Gideon Brody
An album about trapped lives, lives caught in time or by The Times; and an album itself trapped in times that aren't so kind.»
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by Gideon Brody
Lie back, close your eyes and think of America.»
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by Gideon Brody
The record's improved level of consistency is equalled by (and perhaps a corollary of) its musical confidence. »
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by Gideon Brody
Emotional pop-punkers, Kids In Glass Houses whine too. And they whine good. »
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by Gideon Brody
Those familiar with Fan Death's earlier 2008 single outing, 'Veronica's Veil', will be glad to know that in the not inconsiderable»
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by Gideon Brody
Stuck in the midst of winter, it's sometimes hard for us to see as far as its end. It must feel like a trudging schlep for record »
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by Gideon Brody
In many ways, Kingdom Of Rust feels like Doves might be trying to prove a point. The Last Broadcast and Some Cities were both strong albums, challenging enough to be interesting over the long term and speckled with stellar pop songs. Kingdom Of Rust focuses less on the charts and more on the reinvention of Doves.»
In Depth by Gideon Brody
Every year we ask our staff to submit their records of the year and every year, writers put records in their lists that seem to have been somewhat overlooked both within the realm of DiS and/or across the board. Rather than leave these records as forgotten footnotes, last year we launched our imaginatively titled Lost 8 of '08 (see the 8 highlighted records here) and this year it returns, one year older 'n' wiser, as the Lost 9 of '09. Once again this little list intends to do much the same neck-out-sticking for some of our staff's personal favourites. »
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by Gideon Brody
With Soft-Core Rigberg has tentatively moved one foot out of the robot suit and, as a result, has opened up a little. »
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by Gideon Brody
The thing with Fabriclive48 specifically is, it can't decide if it wants to crossover into indie-friendly territory – as the likes of Filthy Dukes (in their normal guise) and Fuck Buttons do – or whether it's an outright club or house record (club as in club, house as in music, you understand). Regular clubbers will love the midsection, which seamlessly conjoins the summer's best techno and tech-house tracks and builds an authentic Friday night, 2am momentum. »
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by Gideon Brody
When it's at its best, After Roberts harbours a brave sense of adventurism, a fearless experimentalism. And yes, it can sound like a million other things. But more often that not, it's just the glorious sound of nothing else.»
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by Gideon Brody
The set doesn't exactly throw up a whole slew of surprises, but then it doesn't need to. On the basis of just one EP and one album, Fleet Foxes perform with the confidence of a band that has been doing this for twenty years or more.»
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by Gideon Brody
It's easy to see what Liam Finn is doing here. But it's hard to escape the significance of a surname; just as it's pointless to de»
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by Gideon Brody
There's two ways of looking at Lord Cut-Glass. The obvious one would be to separate the man from the masquerade. As a major creati»
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by Gideon Brody
This isn't lo-fi krautrock this or soulful jazz that. Despite the tropical flourishes, Jack Peñate has simply returned with another chart-friendly pop album, and XL are unlikely to have any complaints about that.»
