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Review: Fang Island - Fang Island
Americans must stop doing so much to make us Brits look stupid. The amount of good music emanating across the Atlantic lately is quite startling (if you’re startled by music) or exciting (if you like music), even if ‘fessing up to loving imports like The Drums will earn you a blanket party from some corners. [...]
MP3: Ten Kens - Screaming Viking
MP3: Ten Kens - Screaming Viking
Toronto noiseniks Ten Kens return with a second album due on FatCat Records on August 30. For Posterity sees the band exploring gloomier, psychedelic avenues than on their self-titled 2008 debut. ‘Screaming Viking’ is a blistering preview of what the album has to offer: dense riffs, obfuscated vocals and [...]
Review: Kelburn Garden Party, 4-5 July
Note: Andy Sharp has been lurking behind the scenes of the Kelburn Garden Party since its inception in 2007. Here he reflects on his experience of the festival’s most successful year to date -Ed.
Video: Captain Slackship’s Mezzanine Allstars perform at KGP2010.
“Once again we are delighted to welcome you to Kelburn Castle for another weekend [...]
Review: Ólöf Arnalds - Innundir Skinni
Ólöf Arnalds is back, and the Icelandic singer-songwriter’s work remains something of a delicacy: try to imagine a Scandinavian Joanna Newsom singing over the guitar work of Nick Drake and you’ll be somewhere close. ‘Innundir Skinni’ (’under the skin’ in English) - the title track from her forthcoming sophomore album - finds Arnalds cawing in [...]
Review: Dan Deacon - Woof Woof EP
New York native and electronic provocateur Dan Deacon adds to his not inconsiderable discography with Woof Woof - an EP based around the track of the same name from last year’s excellent album, Bromst. The original mix is a gung-ho workout featuring wonky synths and hyper-accelerated vocals. Of the 3 remixes, Luke Abbott turns out [...]
Reviews: Shawn David McMillan - Dead Friends / Various Artists - Beyond Berkeley Guitar
john fahey went insane in nineteen sixty four and died shortly thereafter. he spoke to me in his last minutes on his dying bed and said: “take down my old guitar and smash it against the wall so i can die easy.” i did so and he passed away with a chthonic smile [...]
Review: Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
If Nina Nastasia isn’t telling us anything we didn’t already know on Outlaster, its because she doesn’t need to. Its always more meaningful to have those things we’ve known all along re-told in new, more concise, devastatingly accurate ways, and that’s where Nina comes in, approaching our mangled bodies as we lie bleeding on the [...]
Audio: Eternal Fags - Eternity
Noise fiends: get your ears wrapped around this. I speak, of course, of the self-titled new album by shouty, abrasive rock types Eternal Fags, which is now available as a free download from Winning Sperm Party. This snarling banshee of a record is part punk, part dirge, and contains just [...]
Review: Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Meursault must be thinking talk about difficult second releases is just nonsense, after producing one of the albums of the year with All Creatures Will Make Merry. This collection of musicians has talent to burn, and the ability to bring musical directions of North and South to a wonderful centre point is what makes this [...]
Review: Stag and Dagger @ Various venues, 22.05.10
PHOTO: Sparrow and The Workshop - a hit at Stag and Dagger 2010
Chris Hay does the venue-hopping thing at Stag and Dagger 2010, taking in a boat-load of quality bands as he does.
Saturday saw the Stag and Dagger Festival head to Glasgow on what was easily the hottest day of the year. Spending time in [...]
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