Luke Haines: Single. Album. Tour. Artschool Bops.
Luke Haines: he releases a record! He tours! He... oh, I dunno. Probably eats and sleeps and all that, too. Might even cram in a bit of breathing on his days off, as well...»
Articles
holliy has written the following articles:
Honeytrap - The Naked Dancing EP
While not quite making our correspondent faint with delight, Honeytrap's Naked Dancing EP still contains enough drama, subtlety and oddness to make her keen to hear more...»
Infants - Friend Paste
A mixture of aggressive industrial noise and the odd bit of synth-pop fizz blended into a cross between hardcore chaos and mash-up Japanese electronic. Good idea, non...»
Fuzzy Lights - Demo EP
Violin-washed drones create the kind of ambient noise with too much emotion to be ignorable background muttering, but enough subtlety to never be anything but a gentle, comforting listen...»
Blah Blah Blasé - Grandad
Blah Blah Blasé have all the functional ingredients of electro-trash noise, but none of the zip and elan necessary to make 'em anything more than that. Ho hum. Still: they're a rather young band...»
Ban This Filth! at Cambridge The Cow, Fri 01 Dec
In which the discombobulation caused by electroscuzz-rock is deemed to be, on balance, a good thing...»
The Inhibitionists - Things with Wings
Representative of birdsong? Hmmm... maybe. Enjoyable odd ambient disconcertion? Yeah, I'll give 'em that...»
Zombina and the Skeletones - Death Valley High
Seeking trashy, electro surf-rock thrills? Keen on death rays and lasers? Got a mild grudge against the whole concept of school which you're keen to hear expressed in musical form? Why, then look no further...»
Bugpowder at Cambridge Barfly at The Graduate, Mon 04 Dec
Electro-pop types Revl9n's live act lacks some of the durability which one would listen for before buying their records. However, let's not be too exacting - when one's attempting to get into the disco spirit on a Monday night, simplistic fun can be just what one needs...»
Thomas Tantrum - Armchair
Like, wow...»
Dandi Wind - Apotemnophilia
Dandi Wind mix electro-pop oddities with dance rock beats and noises, and thus create a pleasing mixture of noises, some of which are slightly odd...»
Union Of Knives at Cambridge Barfly at The Graduate, Thu 23 Nov
Union Of Knives have style and play like they care. However, their sound lacks edge, colour and definition, and our correspondent is therefore left somewhat cold...»
Tiny Masters Of Today - K.I.D.S.
Yeah, yeah, they're young. Whatever. What's more important is that they're thoroughly punk rock, and rather ace.»
586 - Money Is The Drug
586 here grace us with some high-speed low-fidelity attention-deficient flailing anarchy. Are you grateful? If not, you should be...»
Various - Future Love Songs
It's a compilation. It's got loads of songs on. They're all by different bands. Therefore, this is a rather long review. So, I recommend that before we start you take a deep breath and gird any loins you might be able to lay your hands on. Ready? Right, off we go...»
Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
It's not that there's anything terribly wrong with this jangle-indie meets post-Strokes single. It's just that there's not that much right with it, either...»
Gertrude's Storm - Drinking My Brain
Gertrude's Storm have a lot of excellent elements, but never quite string them together into something flawlessly cool. However, this still makes them a damn sight more intriguing than most...»
The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy
This single is mostly really fucking annoying...»
Untitled Musical Project - Facsimile Machine / Beards And Drugs / Why Isn't Paul McCartney Dead Already?
Untitled Music Project mix a smattering of things our reviewer loves with an overall sound which she just doesn't get. A shame - but so it goes...»
Tiger Force - Syntax Error
A more overt playfulness doesn't detract at all from Tiger Force's biting drive and sampled oddities...»
Bonemachine - God Save You (Amerika)
This single contains lots of hate, directed at... someone. Amerika, definitely, and probably stalkers, and, umm... Oh, whatever. It's a good song, folks.»
Andrew Thompson - We're In Business
Synths. Drum machines. minimal electro shuffling. Catchiness. Cheesy rhymes. Oh - and a murderous, massive-gun-wielding robot...»
PJ Harvey - PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
It's PJ Harvey, isn't it? Of course a collection of her Peel Sessions is gonna be fucking fantastic. Who could imagine anything different? But if you need more concrete evidence, feel free to click through and read on...»
Micah P Hinson - Jackeyed
Sparse, whiskey-soaked melancholy reminiscent of Tindersticks is here dubbed better than small children triumphing over adversity in an unconvincing and mawkish manner...»
Fell City Girl - February Snow
Fell City Girl try. They really, really do. But while straining themselves over their Coldplay-esque guitar histrionics, they somehow forgot to be any bloody good...»
The Long Blondes, Monkey Swallows the Universe, 1990s at Junction, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Wed 18 Oct
In which The Long Blondes are liked quite a lot by our reviewer. Why? Because pop music this important is a rare and wonderful thing. 'Tis as simple as that...»
Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets
Ex-Belle and Sebastian head-honcho Isobel Campbell here ventures into solo waters aboard the good ship 'ethereal acoustic noise'. This prompts our correspondent to wonder whether she's missing something with her inability to like the genre - and to decide that, actually, she's not...»
Total Chaos! Levellers steamroller through the world of live DVDs
The Levellers: they release a live DVD. Then, they tour to support it. The crystal ball is silent as to whether they will then release a live DVD of the tour they're going on to support the live DVD...»
We Are Trees - Piece Of Plastic / Tree
A flawed single, admittedly, but one whose Sixties guitar loops and whirls make for an enjoyable listen and thus mark We Are Trees as ones to watch...»