Gang Gang Dance have long flirted with ideas of populist structures and hip-hop rhythms but on their latest record they have successfully channelled those previous experiments with free-form percussion and texture into their most focussed, coherent record to date.
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There are some records that you just want to blow you away. Records by awesome live bands. Records with all the right influences. Records from unlikely places. Papier Tigre 's The Beginning And End Of Now is one such record.
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A folk covers record put together by the A&R behind Mark Ronson's Versions , Headless Heroes is an intriguing prospect. Half the tracklisting leaps out like a compilation you might make for your new paramour, provided they're slightly morose, and drawn to the darker end of indie and/or folk...
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Our Countdown to Nightmare Before Christmas continues with an insight into the world of the comedian who's so unfunny he's funny, who has opened for Tenacious D and was picked by Mike Patton to play his ATP which kicks off today...
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A packed Koko in Camden saw White Lies performing tracks from their upcoming album To Lose My Life (out in January).
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The London folk circuit seems to have seen more heartbreak than a fat person's cardiologist. Tonight's performance proves that Laura Marling is the most delicate bloom in this bruised bouquet by far, and she shines, dazzlingly, for almost two hours.
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The Society For The Advancement Of Inflammatory Consciousness isn't hit or miss - it's a bunch of songs that sound like they simply weren't done well enough.
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The year 2008, like all good things, must come to an end, but before it does here's one more DiScover Sheffield date for your diaries
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(k)no(w)here isn't a party album, but for all its gloominess it's never dour or dispiriting. On the contrary, it's the sound of the Baltimore art-rock four-piece Wilderness expressing a sense of faith in the transformative power of art.
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Having nabbed the Arcade Fire support slot when they went stellar, scored a Pitchfork Top 10 album with their own debut, blown that away with the new one, and (tonight) changed venue due to demand, Wolf Parade are entering new territory.
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She stormed the charts this year with her love it/hate it single 'I Kissed A Girl'. Now bi-curious pop princess Katy Perry talks DiS through her ten favourite tracks.
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Before we compile our super-massive end of year coverage, we want to know what you've loved this year. We kick things off with DiS' returning Editor's favourite albums of 2008.
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