It wasn't long ago that we last wrote about Phantogram. That write-up came mere minutes after hearing the gloriously catchy 'When I'm Small' for the first time. Since then I've become accustomed to the debut 'Eyelid Movies' which, because of its re-release next February, looks set to class Phantogram in many "new bands" list which [...]
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‘Odd Blood’, due February 2010, has just given us a sign. ‘Ambling Alp’ is the lead single, due for release digitally this November from Secretly Canadian. You can get it with one of those awesome t-shirts and vinyl as the colourful picture above demonstrates so well.And so the song: Well, it’s a difficult one to [...]
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HURTS hail from Manchester, they play in the same studio as Lost Knives and Egyptian Hip Hop and they make the kind of swooning, sax-led pop music that many of us have been hoping for ever since Mark Ronson bastardised the instrument.You’d expect most songs this band make won’t feature a saxaphone and some light [...]
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words: Jamie Milton, David Molloy, Jack Taylor editorial: Jamie MiltonSome familiar faces now and a couple not so. Two of the artists below have already been cited to have released one of the best albums of the decade respectively. But they didn’t just release one of the best, they released two. Below are the real [...]
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words: Jamie Milton, Ben Ross, Gareth O’Malleyeditorial: Jamie MiltonPart three seems to set free some of the bigger names from the list. What all four of these artists have in common is their ability to change the face of music. It’s of our opinion that all four of the albums below did just that; changing [...]
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words: Jamie Miltonoriginally scribed for gigwise.comWhen The xx first emerged, a lot of the press began to fall head over heels in love with the vocals above the beats, the minimalism, the vital components of what makes the self-titled debut so irresistibly dense and inventive. Oliver Sim and Romy Madley-Croft were the voices in question [...]
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words: Jamie Miltonphoto credit: Louie BanksDrawing parallels between every female solo artist under the sun should be an act dead and buried by this time next year. Yes, 2010 will see many a talented woman surge towards the charts, Ellie Goulding being the most likely candidate to do so, but what we should have learnt [...]
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editorial: Jamie Miltonwords: Jamie Milton & Gareth O’MalleyStage two sees us keeping to the virtue of listing albums that defined how our writers thought, acted and went about listening to music. The choices below are some of the more personal in the whole top twenty. Moving from 2001 to 2008, every album achieved something bold [...]
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editorial: Jamie Miltonwords: Jamie Milton and Matt McDonald“Lists are subjective, all of them are the same anyway, blah blah blah”. For lists that sum up a decade, publications such as ours as much more likely to agree with others because a consensus is easier to reach because we’ve had a good ten years to reach [...]
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Words: Gareth O’Malley‘How the hell’s this going to work?’ – Those were the very words I murmured to myself many times as I sat in on soundcheck in Bar Ritz last Saturday. To put it lightly, the acoustics there are not very good – at the very least, this was the impression I got.The western [...]
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————————————————————————————-#1words: Jamie MiltonAntony And The Johnsons – Hope There’s SomeoneThe emotional has triumphed in MFM’s top 10 songs of the decade. Without passion of fuel for thought, without uncontrollable frustration or in this case, unrivaled loneliness and doubt, there’s not a hope in hell of reaching the top spot. A
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NEW MUSIC: Kidnapper Bell (Birmingham, UK)words: Jamie Miltonphoto source: owlgardensPop-punk needs to become more pop if it is to lure in the hearts of the mainstream. Heading that movement seems to be an Anglo-American bunch who go by the name of Kidnapper Bell. Playing shows with contemporaries Tubelord, Johnny Foreigner, Hot Club De Paris, they’ve [...]
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————————————————————————————-#2words: Jamie MiltonOf Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque AnimalThere’s a reason why the central thought stream of ‘Hissing Fauna…’ clocks in at just under twelve minutes. There’s many a reason actually. The most noticeable however, is the context. Kevin Barnes, freshly rid of the divorce papers, angst
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependencewords: Jamie MiltonThe manifesto was set in stone simply by naming the first album ‘Quiet Is The New Loud‘. And although Erlend Øye at least, hasn’t stuck to the rules — forming The Whitest Boy Alive and outputting his electronic inner in a DJ Kicks compilation — Kings [...]
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photo source: Simon Filip (what a wonderful photo, might I add)Pitchfork today announced the return of Field Music, a band of whom many expected to never return what with The Week That Was and School of Language making movements over the past two years. But a follow-up to 2007’s astoundingly good ‘Tones of Town’ is [...]
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