The Snowman and the Snowdog, Union Chapel, London 14 Dec 2013
lan Eshkeri and Andy Burrows performed their soundtrack to The Snowman and the Snowdog accompanied by th the London Metropolitan Orchestra.»
Articles
MarcBurrows has written the following articles:
Gary Barlow - Since I Last Saw You
When Gary Barlow plays this safe he remains hard to warm to.»
Jake Bugg - Shangri La
Student bedrooms and after-school music clubs across the country are awash with acts as good as Jake Bugg is, who given the proper money, songwriting assistance and sodding Rick Rubin producing could have created this exact piece of art.»
Live Report: The Arcade Fire at The Roundhouse, London (11/11/13)
An explosive ticker-tape finale provides an exclamation-mark ending to what briefly threatened to be a row of dots.»
No Barricades: William DuVall on hardcore, grunge and Alice In Chains
He wasn’t a grunge megastar, or a tortured genius - his story goes back further than Alice, further than Nirvana and further than Soundgarden.»
Erasure - Snow Globe
One of the more palatable additions to the Christmas cannon, and a really good Erasure record to boot.»
Young Knives - Sick Octave
It’s good songwriting that saves Sick Octave from itself.»
Los Campesinos! - No Blues
In a far corner of a foreign field that is forever England (or, okay, Wales) Los Campesinos! are genuinely and deservedly treasured.»
The Wave Pictures - City Forgiveness
There’s not a duff track here, yet something does feel a little off.»
Paul McCartney - New
This is Paul McCartney. We know when we hit play it's not going to sound like Factory Floor.»
Music & Comedy: Why do people look down on humour in music?
Under the radar comedy and music are still very much going hand in hand. When did we start to look down on humour in music? Is it the fault of horror-show novelty records like Chubby Brown doing ‘Living Next Door To Alice’ or Spittin’ Image’s ‘The Chicken Song’? Because that hardly seems fair.»
Johnny Flynn - Country Mile
Despite the harvest festival charm that carries the record, its heart is in its starkest, most honest moments.»
Sebadoh - Defend Yourself
The days of Sebadoh blowing minds and claiming hearts are now far behind them, but then maybe they don’t have to do that anymore.»
In defence of... the melancholy Manic Street Preachers
'Ready For Drowning' and 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' are both powerful and astonishingly bleak- that the latter became their first number one remains one of the more glorious corners of pop history- a little victory for melancholy art.»
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Kapranos and co have delivered what is simultaneously ‘just another Franz Ferdinand’ album and one of the indie records of the summer. Don’t leave it so long next time.»
Travis: Album by Album with Fran Healy
Following our editor's 8/10 review of their seventh album Where You Stand, Marc Burrows sits down with Fran Healy to discuss their back catalogue...»
Various Artists - Teenage Dirtbags
If this is all punk is and was, then it was a failed experiment.»
White Lies - Big TV
Not a bad album, not a bad band. You get the impression White Lies are aiming for more than that though.»
The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
This is a limping, bloodless version of The Civil Wars, and if the band is to have a future they need to fix their issues, or else learn to channel the damage better.»
AlunaGeorge - Body Music
Body Music achieves all of its goals and then some.»
What's Going On? - How Belgium Saved Marvin Gaye
We’ve come to Belgium to learn about Marvin Gaye, which is one of the weirder sentences you expect to write as a music journalist. »
Chapel Club - Good Together
This isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, it doesn’t have the depth of this year's great pop touchstones, Tegan and Sara’s Hearthrobb or Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City, and like when Christopher Ecclestone regenerated into David Tennant some of the edge, the darkness and the grit has been left behind.»
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
Three eras. Three Suedes. Ten years apart. Three different bands. “There’s definitely an ‘every ten years something happens’ isn’t there?”, says Brett Anderson, Suede's singer - still handsome, snake hipped and tiny bit waspish, but very definitely not the bum-slapping brat that kicked off British indie-rock’s golden era.»
Frankie & the Heartstrings - The Days Run Away
This is a collection of elegantly assembled, fat-free pop songs, made from light and air and heart, and great choruses. It's the soul and centre of indie pop and deserves your immediate attention.»
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
It’s rare songs this well imagined can create an album that is less than the sum of its parts.»
Interview: Frank Turner on The Olympics, The Backlash, Thatcher and Black Flag
"As I’ve got older. it’s interesting to me that punk rock is as significant to me on a personal level as it was when I was 16. It does mean slightly different things to me now, when I was 16 I thought punk was going to change the world and if only everyone would listen to Minor Threat there’d be eternal international peace or whatever, but to me these days it’s about a tribe, it’s about community, it’s also about the ability to create a space in which you can organise the world in a way that makes sense to you. " - Frank Turner»
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
The new record by Vampire Weekend is the best alternative pop album you will hear this year.»
Melvins - Everyone Loves Sausages
Sometimes it’s very good and sometimes it misses the mark quite spectacularly, but crucially Everybody Loves Sausages always has fun doing so. »
Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
Still bitter. Still brilliant. Still here.»
Bon Jovi - What About Now
A band that still have plenty to offer when they stop playing to the middle ground.»