For a few months now La Roux has had quite an effect on pop music and has brought her somewhat unique sound onto the mainstream. With a quirky look and her own take on electro, 2009 has been a good year for the daughter of The Bill’s Sergeant June Ackland.‘Bulletproof’ is a catchy, 1970s disco...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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... or better the album that never sparked.Tommy Sparks adamantly applies that same old and tested pop formula which prescribes unrelenting repetitions of synth-conceived beats, words and refrains in order to infix tunes into people’s brains. Every song is trying to be one of those hits that...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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What is this? Seriously - what is this watered down, half-arsed attempt at a come back that I am listening to?“Over It” has all the trademark Dinosaur JR sounds: distortion, gain turned up to max and too much feedback. But it just sounds so outdated – it baffles me as to who exactly would buy this...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Twenty-year-old Matt Abbott makes up one half of the Motown influenced spoken word duo, Skint and Demoralised, and despite his newly acquired acclaim and whirlwind two months – Abbott’s young feet seem pretty firmly fixed to the ground.For those of you who haven’t heard of Skint and Demoralised...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Festivals come in many shapes and sizes these days, but a commonality links them all. Location. While some languidly stretch over verdant grassy fields in the bucolic hinterland, others sit fervently upright in some city centre park.Sonar may just stand in a class of its own, spreading its...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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After meeting at high school in Edinburgh with a collective interest in contemporary indie music, four young bairns by the name of Adam Thompson (guitar/vocals), Sean Smith (bass), Michael Palmer (guitar) and Darren Lackie (drums) started We Were Promised Jetpacks – Fat Cat Records’ latest...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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If I were to say The Cooler was rammed…my hands would be wrist deep in bull-shit... This unmitigated emptiness could have been because it was a Sunday, and it would have been even easier to blame the credit crunch, but empty is empty, and The Cooler was fucking dead.So at their 5th U.K halt,...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Apparently recorded in a Whitechapel basement beneath the only ukulele shop in Europe, ‘In The Court of The Wrestling Let’s’ is a fun, dynamic and catchy album with excellent musical hooks and energy-filled melodies.The first noticeable flaw, however, is that the vocals are pretty terrible, but...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Welcome to the world of Fanfarlo. It’s a sort of understated instrumental frenzy that combines a violin, a mandolin, a glock, a sax, a trumpet, a banjo alongside, of course, the conventional instruments in a way which immediately emulates the drama and beauty of the likes of Arcade Fire and leaves...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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It’s not often that a first EP, released on an obscure label and distributed by a company I haven’t previously heard of, manages to astound me. A lot of releases, many of them a debut, can be good but not great, and indeed every now and again one is great.‘Black Heart, Blue Eyes’ is more than...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have to be two of the most prolific creative personalities in modern music. The fact that 'Octahedron' is the fifth studio album in nearly as many years under the Mars Volta banner is impressive in itself, but throw in two live records, one EP, 12...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Riceboy Sleeps is the side project of the second most well known Icelandic musician in the world, Jónsi Birgisson, of Sigur Rós fame. The eponymous debut is part of a collaboration with his bowl cut adorned boyfriend, Alex Somers; a collaborative effort which also includes the production of various...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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The first thing that struck me about this band was the fact I had absolutely no idea how to say their name. Not always an appealing or marketable aspect of an act, but certainly something to grab the listener’s attention before the music even starts.When the music did start, I found it difficult...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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“I don’t want to cry my whole life through, I want to do some laughing too.” Got your attention? This is the innate attention grabbing nature of Girls, the San Fransisco duo who are as eye-catching as there are lyrically poignant.Looking not too dissimilar to an American alternative of David...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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I feel strangely ambivalent about Flashguns' new EP Matching Hearts, Similar Parts. I don't think I should like them, and yet I find myself strangely taken in by opening track “I Don't Not Love You”, despite it's deliberately dumb title.The music is hardly ground breaking, but interesting none the...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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If you looking to write a fist in the air rock hit in the parlance of our times then you need a few key ingredients. A big riff. Angst ridden lyrics. Crashing drums. An instantly memorable chorus and a big guitar solo. Opening track of The New 1920's self titled debut EP, Come Around ticks these...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Having hit number one in the radio charts over in their native Denmark quirky three piece No and the Maybes are set to shine a light on the probable on coming of another austere summer.With incredibly catchy hooks and bass lines akin to Das Pop and reminiscent of Spector era sugar coated west...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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When you graduate from the same University as MGMT (Wesleyan University in Conneticut), you perhaps set the benchmark high in terms of the inevitable consequential comparisons. Luckily for Amazing Baby, their style is perhaps too different from the upbeat chants of MGMT to warrant any further...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Official Secrets Act appear to be almost twenty years late releasing the Bloodsport single, epitomising everything possible from the eighties music scene whilst the track sounds like a really slow cover of Hazel Dean’s “Wherever I Go, Whatever I Do.”Image aside, the song itself is a slow paced...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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Upon seeing the album cover of Here Come The Vikings, the 3rd album from Brighton based singer songwriter Astrid Williamson I wasn’t optimistic. You can count on one hand the amount of decent records where the artist has decided to put a picture of themselves on the cover.Williamson deals mainly...... READ MORE @ www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk (click the title to read on!)
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