Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Telekinesis
Heart full of love Michael Benjamin Lerner has produced a flawless debut album under the name Telekinesis. His debut album Telekinesis! expels a dizzying, contagious amount of hyperactivity, energy, and passion. Lerner’s thirteen power pop songs are all perfectly constructed, tightly compacted gems, placed alongside each other just so that you can sit and listen [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Seattle,U.S.A,Washington by Sarah Gooding
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
The Cribs
New album Ignore the Ignorant Did anyone hear The Cribs’ last album, 2007′s Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever? It was CLASSIC! Such concise, catchy brit-pop tunes set in modern malaise. Perfect delivery, clean, crisp production, sassy attitude and perfectly structured, tight punk/pop. It was seriously underrated and under recognised as far as I’m aware. I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in UK by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Oh Mercy- In The Nude For Love
Oh Mercy- In The Nude For Love (EP) 3/10 Impossibly cheesy title aside, this Melbourne four-piece’s EP is extremely well produced and polished pop/jazz. It’s almost clinically clean sounding, with razor-sharp piano gliding atop the cloth of Alexander Gow’s cooing vocals and Thomas Savage’s jazz guitar chord strums. The breathy and gasping ‘Seemed Like A [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Crocodiles- ‘Neon Jesus’ 7″
Crocodiles- ‘Neon Jesus’/ ‘Neon Autobahn’ 7” 8/10 Sweet Talking Heads-esque pop duo Crocodiles have a lo-fi fuzz that’s earning them much recognition around certain circuits, and for good reason. ‘Neon Jesus’s eerie swampth synths coupled with awkward melodies and surfy guitar is pushed along by a rigid rhythm encased in glorious fuzz. It’s simple, sweet [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
JEFF The Brotherhood/ Sisters 7″
JEFF The Brotherhood/ Sisters- Mind Ride/ Highway Scratch 7” single 6/10 This is a sweet limited edition silk screened split 7” for all the family. On one side, Jeff The Brother Hood’s chugging guitar lines and monotone rhythmic vocals of ‘Mind Ride’ channels the highway of rock that’s referenced in so many crass and overrated [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Album,Reviews by Sarah Gooding
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Coconut Records
East Coast Pop I fricken love Jason Schwartzman. I love his first band, Phantom Planet; I love all his movies, particularly Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Shopgirl and I Heart Huckabees; and I especially love his solo music efforts with Coconut Records. Releasing his debut album Nighttiming in 2007 on his own Young Baby Records to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in California by Sarah Gooding
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Japanese Punk
Fuck The West Velocityut The most brutally noisy of all, Nagasaki’s Velocityut are the grown-ups of the Japanese noise scene. The band formed in 1993 and over the years has released a number of cassettes, 7″ vinyls and CDs; all strictly limited edition. They have a new release coming out soon titled Specimen (not sure [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Japan by Nick Fulton
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Egyptian Hip Hop
Teen Creeps Egyptian Hip Hop is a teenaged four-piece psychedelic band from Manchester with a penchant for Cairo, 50 Cent and MS Paint. I found them while researching Neon Indian. Both bands’ sounds swathed in spacey synths, have been compared by Fader magazine. While Egyptian Hip Hop’s sound is a bit more fragmented and unsettled [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Manchester,UK by Sarah Gooding
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Eat Sugar
Riding A Wicked Sugar High Electro punk melodies meet spastic new wave rhythms, creating a cross between The Rapture and Late Of The Pier. Eat Sugar’s musical combination ushers in a new wave of dance punk, taking over from their ageing contemporaries who look to be moving towards other forms of electro noise and experimental [...]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S.A by Nick Fulton
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Neon Indian
Terminally Chill I like that Neon Indian’s new song ‘Terminally Chill’ sounds like it’s straight out of a lesser-known Molly Ringwald film, and that their Brian Wilson-esque melodies are met with a scuzzy sort of ’80s production and dreamy, fucked up synths. The duo is comprised of a video artist from Brooklyn and a [...]
