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The Funerals - Pathetic Me
I never really understood those artificial fruit bowl things. The need to fake something that's so natural and easy to get hold of, just for appearance's sake always seemed so stupid to me. They're the first thing that came into my head after listening to The Funeral's 'Pathetic Me' which is apparently »
The Microphones - Song Islands
Music and nature. I guess they've got a lot in common. They're both powerful, beautiful and within them both there's a spectrum so broad that you can easily get lost, so for each person there's something specific so then everyone's happy.
Phil Elvrum knows this. A man who, for the last couple of»
The Kills - Black Rooster EP
It seems like every week we're presented with yet another band who are peddling their own brand of rock 'n' roll, which they claim is apparently just how it used to be played 'properly' in the old days. But after a few listens it becomes pretty obvious that it's just… soulless. The same old tired riffs and»
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Imagine an album that manages to draw influences from records that came before it, but manages to sound like nothing else yet recorded. That manages to detail emotions on the human spectrum in such a way that, even if you've never experienced it, you somehow manage to know what it feels like. An album that is so c»
(Review of nothing)
The last time that I saw Idlewild was two years ago, in the middle of a field surrounded by thousands of people who were probably there just to a hear a noise more so the band them self. But what a controlled noise it was, loud guitars and Roddy Wombles' voice soared through most of '100 Broken Windows'»
Belle And Sebastian - Storytelling
Six years into their recording career, Belle & Sebastian are now showing signs of a band coming into full maturity. They've spawned side-projects (Looper, Gentle Waves...), done world tours and now they've been commissioned by quirky film director Todd Solondz to score his latest movie, 'Storytelling'. »