The offhand, distracted brilliance of Here We Go Magic’s “Make Up Your Mind” raises just one question; was Nigel Godrich the genius, or was Radiohead? Because this, Here We Go Magic’s first revealed material with Mr Godrich, stinks of all those wonderful Radiohead-associated qualities; the disinterested, yet sharp, lyrics, the linear structure with subtle progressions [...]
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Well, what better way to break the silence than with some genuine excitement? Last year saw Outfit turn the entire credible music press into fans with just one single, and so everything that they subsequently put out was always going to be meticulously ripped apart and analysed for every clue that they might be satisfying [...]
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We never actually published the list, but The War On Drugs’ “Slave Ambient” was our favourite record of the year – and new b-side “Don’t Fear The Ghost” continues its linear, melancholic theme. So subtle, and yet so enveloping; it’s definitely one to get yourself lost in. The War on Drugs – Don’t Fear the [...]
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We’re not going to lie – we’re pretty bloody excited about everybody’s favourite potentially-mentally-unstable indie act Alt-J. Their brilliant eccentricity keeps surpassing their previous efforts; see the meandering strangeness of new track “Fitzpleasure” for proof. Its brooding, almost schizophrenic tone is completely bonkers, but they tie the whole thing together seamlessly. In fact, they’re so
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FRENCH FILMS – You Don´t Know from Teemu Niukkanen on Vimeo. French Films have somehow positioned themselves in an unbelievable position; they write towering, anthemic indie-pop, and somehow pull it off as if they’re the hippest, Urban-Outfitters loving, roll-your-own-fags lot from Shoreditch. And they’re from Finland. It just defies logic, but it has happened, and [...]
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The title says almost everything that needs to be said really, so we’ll avoid a few minutes of pseudo-philosophising about the whole “end-of-year” obsession (bottom line – we love them), as these are simply my favourite songs from 2011, and therefore they are all right. But please feel free to argue in the comments, it [...]
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This is so underappreciated it is either going to make me question the state of the music media or my own sanity. However, I’m pretty sure I’m largely sane, and, more importantly, an objective enough a listener not to be drawn towards music simply for the virtue of having been made in a town relatively [...]
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It’s December 6th which, as always, means its time for some heart-warmingly regressive Australian surf-pop just to get into the Christmas spirit. This year’s instalment comes from the emphatically titled Gung Ho who could only sound more Australian if they added a trio of didgeridoos and had a guest backing vocal from Shane Warne. That, [...]
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When I was initially asked to take part in the Blog Sound of 2012, which was being presented not as a criticism of the BBC Sound of 2012, but as an alternative, I had my reservations. Was it really necessary? In light of the unveiling of the BBC list today, I would have to say [...]
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I’m not a musician of any significance, or even a musician at all come to think of it, but from my untrained perspective it seems like flirting with a maudlin mood is a very dangerous idea. Of course, for those who it comes naturally to, like the National, it can be the source of all [...]
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Ignoring a number of violent revolutions across the Arab world, and the flirtation of the Eurozone with collapse, 2011 can be defined as a year in which a ridiculous amount of words were written about James Blake. That’s something that’s hard to complain about, because his music is so left-field and interesting that it still [...]
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If you’d like to be reminded what Bon Iver sounded like before he diluted and confused his genius with the sounds of whatever instruments he could pick up for under $10 in a charity shop, then Dan Croll’s your man. Thinking about it, even if you happen to have been tricked into liking the new [...]
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Crushed Beaks have spent the last couple of months being tipped everywhere from the hippest music blogs to the most mainstream broadsheets, based entirely on the tempting lo-fi buzz of b-side “Sun Dogs”. As impressive as the song is, we were simply left with both the song’s revolving riff and one question lodged in our [...]
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Midnight Love Short Film from Cave Painting on Vimeo. I was already pretty much in love with “So Calm” even in its embryonic stages; there’s definitely some truth in that indie cliché that you can hear a great pop song no matter what the production quality or delivery. But fleshed out by Mercury subsidiary Hideout [...]
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Given that, at the time of writing, there are only 4 copies of Friends’ “I’m His Girl” vinyl left, we thought we’d heighten the sense of pained anticipation that naturally precedes each post by waiting until now to tell you… you’ve really got to get hold of one of these. And we’re probably going to [...]
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For me, pop music that comes the closest to genius is that which requires no context; there’s no need to know a band’s biography, have groped the lead singer at a frantic gig or own an entirely illegal back catalogue. All I know about Phantogram is that they’re probably from America, I downloaded their debut [...]
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Being a music journalist has always seemed like an unbelievably illogical career path to me, because presumably you would only choose to become one if you loved music, yet, surely to anybody who loves music, the idea of being forced to continuously listen to and pick over an album that you have a real hatred [...]
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If you’ve been left slightly underwhelmed since our tease of a tweet promising much new things many weeks ago, fair enough. To get back into the flow of things, before we start throwing lots of words around, here’s some simply incredible music courtesy of London producer, Shells. He threw down the ‘Shells/Arctic’ single last week [...]
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Edgy Mancunians Stay+ made one very keen point in this article; at what point did we become so saturated with an excessive amount of information that any band who simply releases their music is thrown mercilessly into the “cynically anonymous” camp. It is ridiculous that when presented with only music, we start to hound bands [...]
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Yesterday we woke up to the heartbreaking news that PIAS’ London warehouse had been completely burnt down in a wave of wanton, vitriolic rioting that was completely lacking any legitimate political motive. Whilst the wider implications of this thoughtless and respectless behaviour is a problem probably best left to our inept politicians, it has become [...]
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