Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian- The BBC Sessions 9/10 How can you critically review one of the best British bands of the past decade? Answer; simply list some of the tracks on this stunning collection. The BBC Sessions is pretty much a best of Belle and Sebastian’s early career with songs from Tigermilk (‘The State I Am [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Leathermouth
Leathermouth- X0 3/10 Good hardcore music has the ability to rip your head off, tear your body to pieces and then pick you back up again; I’m not convinced that this album does that. Leathermouth is an interesting band, arguably only getting a bit of press because it is the project of My Chemical Romance [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Nick Fulton
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Reviews
Moron Says What?!- Pop Up (EP) 7/10 “…‘Nathalie Touch Me There Again’ is easily the best and cleanest track… a schoolgirl style Barbie love song perhaps influenced by Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’. Singing “Nathalie, if I was a boy, I’d have a big crush on you, your hair is so soft”, the song [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Fort Knox Five
Fort Knox Five – Radio Free DC 5/10 While it’s too long and punishing and slowly peters out towards the end, the eclectic Funk/Hip Hop of Washington D.C. four-piece Fort Knox Five’s debut LP has moments of greatness. Beset with R&B, Reggae and Electronic tendencies, FKF has been causing quite a stir in America; now [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Bygones
Colossal Clusterfuck Infamously wonderful and weird Zach Hill has teamed up with one of my favourite schitz-guitar bands Tera Melos to create Bygones. In a similar vein to Zach’s gloriously boisterous solo music but with the hardened hardcore punk edge of Tera Melos’ meandering creations, Bygones has all the energy of both bands with double [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in California by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album and free MP3
What, no guitars!? On April 13 in the UK and April 14 in the US, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release their third album, It’s Blitz!. With strictly no guitars, Nick Zinner’s trademark clunky and erratic axe is replaced by slushy synths and what sounds like syncopated drum machine beats. Where has the sound of [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in New York by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Moron Says What?!
Moron Says What?!- Pop Up (EP) 7/10 Some parts are slightly out of tune, but it’s still absolute pop perfection. I always hoped that Moron Says What?!’s first official release would contain some sort of lo-fi element and thankfully the slightly distorted vocals sound like they were recorded into a old toy microphone. After all, [...]
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Fanfarlo
Please, Can I Climb Out Your Window? If you were ever wondering what happened to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah then the news is that the band is on a semi-permanent hiatus. They played their last show in New York on February 13 and have abandoned plans to go into the studio and record their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in UK by Nick Fulton
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Bon Iver
Bon Iver- Blood Bank (EP) 10/10 Folk music that is absolutely flawless. Blood Bank is the follow up to Bon Iver’s stunning debut For Emma, Forever Ago, which was voted number 17 on EMJ’s ‘Top albums of 2008’. The four tracks on Blood Bank are an expansive transition, taking Bon Iver’s music into another dimension [...]
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
High Places Interview
Metaphysical Mountain-tops You might not think this if you’re not a dendrologist (tree scientist), but trees gain the majority of their mass from the air. 99% of it, in fact. While it’s common knowledge that trees grow from the roots up, they actually gain most of their atmosphere-grazing size from their air. This seems like [...]
