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Rough around the edges but not lo-fi, hazy but not slacker, this is a deceptively modest little indiepop gem that’s swollen with all the accumulating energy of being fizz-full of love but landlocked; buoyant with ideals but just waiting for someone to believe in you.»
As you're possibly aware, London's docklands are now home to an exotic new venue called London Pleasure Gardens, where all sorts of fabulous things will be happening this summer. And foremost amongst them is the Bloc festival, which has been lured away from the angry bouncers and chilly chalets of Butlins Minehead and brought over for a mind boggling two days of electronic fun. Lauren Strain and John Thorp offer a preview.»
An agreeable record, but it comes from a man who we know is capable of something sublime.»
Unpatterns is not without fault but it contains perhaps some of Simian Mobil Disco's best work, and anyone who loved the nastier side of Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release but balked at Delicacies' measured gore should get back on board.»
A concise but precise chapter in the Jesca Hoop story, a miniature bottling of her darkly perfumed ghost-tales. »
More or less irresistible. »
Peter Broderick is one of the most involving young musicians around right now. Take him to heart. »
From the outside, Chicago singer-songwriter Joe Pug looks pretty much like your traditional man-and-a-guitar: beat-up acoustic, check; gruffly vitriolic voice, check; jeans and shirt, check. But having already clocked up shows with Josh Ritter, Steve Earl»
We caught up with Mew ahead of their appearance at Truck Festival 2010. »
Since the moment they uploaded a bold draft of first single 'Hummer' to their MySpace page almost four years ago, Oxford five-piec»
At a time when it's somewhat fashionable to pretend you grew up on a farm and did nothing but twang a banjo, chew corn and eat mudpies, it's pleasing to hear a set of songs that resonates with a genuine hearthside warmth and heath-begotten bluster.»
How Rufus Wainwright jumped in at the deep end and wrote an opera about... opera. »
It is difficult to write music that addresses either the delicate balance or the ever-more-rapid destruction of the planet without over-egging it – without the finished piece coming off as trite and/or the writer coming off as a wannabe eco-champion who’s just in it for their own ego. But The Golden Archipelago is a record that explores this turbulent and terrible time in the life-cycle of our earth without preaching, without getting pious. It makes its statement simply by describing the things we stand to lose, their power and yet their precariousness.»
Each pared track of Life of the World to Come, The Mountain Goats' 16th – released – album (with vocalist/writer John Darnielle and bassist Peter Hughes joined by Jon Wurster on drums and perc), is named after a book from the Old or New Testament, but to look for any correlation between the songs' imagined intentions and those scriptures would be a tedious approach to deciphering either; besides, the record itself seems to be about the very impossibility of taking any biblical or otherwise faith-based tract as read, because ideas of faith and belief are, themselves, inscrutable. »
'Hate was just a failure of the imagination' - Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory You know the rap. Patrick Wolf. Twenty-»
