It’s incredible to think that I haven’t posted in just over a week… but it’s just a reflection of how busy I am with uni applications and exams on top of the all the usual stuff. Really sorry about it, I promise that I’ll be back to posting regularly very soon! The worst thing about this situation is that spare time is so rare that I haven’t had enough time to look for new music, and
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Just a quick one to let you know that I have officially succumbed and am “Halloweening it” tonight, despite being aware that “Thriller” is going to be completely overplayed everywhere. I mean, it was pretty much the seminal Halloween tune anyway, but now he’s only had to go and die… It’s going to be inescapable. I just wish the sort of terrible DJs who play at big clubs would th
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Everything Everything; purveyors of absolutely quality press shots and even better at popping out inventive pop songs, like the (much appreciated) sluts of the music world. Makes a change from indie bands gloomily peering at the camera through their painstakingly maintained Toni & Guy fringes, anyway. Manchester based Everything Everything are probably the least certain of fame so far in t...
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The National are not the sort of band who will follow up a record like 2007’s completely sublime “Boxer” with a rushed LP. They’ve certainly kept us waiting for its successor, but it transpires that the band have been keeping themselves busy with their own Brassland Records, and playing on the new solo album of frequent collaborator, Doveman. In fact, Doveman is pretty much the session
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Let’s be honest, Halloween is an enormous marketing farce, and everyone knows it. It’s not just a US based malevolence, either; Halloween based adverts are inescapable in the UK as well. All of this has led me to the conclusion that Halloween is relatively meaningless calendar day that’s been relentlessly hyped in an effort to get us to part with our cash; and we all buy into it as a glor
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I may as well begin by summing up Fenech-Soler for you; they are, without a doubt, the most exciting band I’ve discovered this year. Still unsigned and yet to depart their teens, this Northamptonshire based band are going to make one very profitable Christmas present for whoever finally convinces them to sign on the dotted line. Musically, Fenech-Soler are well reputed to mix the floating vo.
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Every sinew in my body is screaming out at me to launch into a stirring off-the-cuff attack on serial scumbag Nick Griffin (who has just blundered and fake laughed his way into the book of “The Most Laughable And Incompetent Politicians of 2k9)(I think he’s the page after Gordon Brown), but I’m so sure that it will come out sounding like poorly planned drivel that I’ll have to abstain o
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For the third instalment in this series, we stay close to the prophecies of Neon Gold, doing nothing to reject the accusations that we think that the music industry works by Neon Gold telling everyone what’s going to shift units. Actually, if you think about it for a second, it is seeming more and more likely that that is actually how the industry works. However, despite the Neon Gold rele.
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The Beach Boys. TheBeachBoysBeachBoysBeachBoysBeachBoys. Apparently, that’s all you need to know about New York based band The Drums, if many of their reviewers are the be believed. Obviously, it’s a fairly accurate comparison, but it’s far too simple. Fittingly, it’s the same accusation that some people are levelling at The Drums; their music’s just too basic. The band take a differ
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I tipped Ellie Goulding back in May in virtually the same breath that I announced Marina & The Diamonds would be releasing her debut EP on the taste-makers record label, Neon Gold, who are quickly making a name for themselves as the starting point for hotly tipped bands to take a step into the big time. I’m sure that “the big four” are watching every move they make with interest. In a n
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“Hello, my name is Sub Focus, a relevant English drum & bass pioneer, and I am such an inhuman tune making machine that I show no emotion whatsoever, and wear sunglasses inside in order to seem like a big deal.” Still… he is sort of amazing. Amazing enough to wear sunglasses inside, though? Buy his debut LP, released October 12th, here.
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With the almost unbelievable amount of attention that dubstep is receiving at the moment, it would be wrong to ignore someone who not only was one of the fathers of the genre, but also dragged the genre out from the murky corners of Camden, and directly into the public’s consciousness. In other words, it would be wrong to ignore Skream. I think that one of the un-noticed consequences of musi.
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Fuck Buttons’ latest album, “Tarot Sport” is due out 15th October after leaking last month. All of the reviews that I have read so far have had to resort to inventing ridiculous superlatives in a futile effort to describe this indescribable record. However, there is some sort of debate as to whether “Tarot Sport” is more pop than avant-garde. The Quietus proclaimed it as a masterpiece
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We’re going to have to go back to September 1st for this one… Hopefully my strange melange of praise and criticism of Chiddy Bang will still be fresh in your minds. On reflection, I’m still adamant that I’m right; great production, good flow, but more-than-questionable lyrics. Whilst Chiddy Bang were busy being salivated over by MGMT-infatuated bloggers, it seems that at least someone
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I’m struggling to put into words how great this dubstep track is – I really don’t think I can do it justice. You can throw all the dubstep related words at it that you want; it’s dirty, huge, filthy, enormous, but you’re going to have to listen to it to make your own mind up. Fantastically subversive, “Calypso” is a genuine room shaker of a tune; a claim certified by the two pare
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“Two Dancers”, if nothing else, proves that surprisingly fantastic sophomore albums are the best kind. The flamboyant indie rock of debut “Limbo Panto” was undeniably interesting and showcased their potential, but was far too reliant on standout single “The Devil’s Crayon”. After “Limbo Panto”, Wild Beasts were consigned to the “near miss” category; we were excited about t
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Horchata, for those living on the East side of the Atlantic, is an eminently disgusting sounding rice & almond “drink” popular in Latin America. Or so Wikipedia reliably (?) informs me. And, disgusting or not, Vampire Weekend decided to make a song about it. Following a mysterious 4 hour countdown earlier today, the Brooklyn band are giving it away for free via their website. Could I be mo
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I’m liking what this poster’s telling me a lot; Joker, Fake Blood, Caspa, Rusko, Aeroplane and Simian Mobile Disco all compressed into one immense night. I’ve already ploughed through a thesaurus of superlatives to try and articulate just how great this line up is in a previous post, but now Simian Mobile Disco have been announced as the headliners. That said, I saw SMD on Saturday at the
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I was wondering what was the best way to review the new Cribs record without mentioning the name of a certain new member who may once have been part of a quasi-seminal indie band from Manchester, and have decided that the best way to achieve this state of journalistic nirvana is to just not review the album at all. Just a poor excuse for lazyness? Well… yes, absolutely. But trust me, the new.
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You know, after years of spending my time using music as an excuse not to do anything else, you might think that I’d have got this whole “keeping up with music” business down to an art. Apparently not; despite being battered by F ederico Franchi’s “Cream” pretty much every weekend, I was always far too unreceptive at the time that it was played to take too much notice of it. I heard
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