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Capsula – Rising Mountains

June 2, 2009 Album, Reviews No Comments
Capsula

Capsula

Other than selected single tracks here and there from long-dead sixties bands I don’t reckon I’ve heard much by Argentinian rock groups. For what is I think therefore justifiably classifiable as a first this, the second album from Capsula (late of Buenos Aires, now waiting to conquer the world from Bilbao), succeeded in grabbing my attention right from the start.

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Sonic Youth – The Eternal

May 31, 2009 Album, Reviews No Comments
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

When it was announced that Sonic Youth, having honoured their contract with Geffen Records, had signed with much-admired independent label Matador, many of us came to the same conclusion: after the concise, streamlined accessibility of 2006’s Rather Ripped, it was time for the Youth to renew their love affair with the underground and pursue the avant-garde aesthetic that first inspired them.

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Hockey – Learn to Lose

May 28, 2009 Reviews, Single 1 Comment
Hockey

Hockey

You know when hip new bands get used in the soundtrack of US teen televisual waffle; you might for instance have seen Death Cab for Cutie make a fleeting appearance on The OC, or heard Paramore spring up for a few seconds on The Hills when Heidi dumps Spencer for the twentieth time? Well now it appears that a whole genre of generic indie is coming through to fill those ten to twenty seconds where a dash of music is needed to add to the ‘drama’.

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The Great Escape Festival, Brighton

May 28, 2009 Gig, Reviews No Comments

Esser at The Great Escape

Esser at The Great Escape

Brighton is a bright and lively seaside town, renowned for its party scene and memorable nights out. But today, Friday, things are not looking so bright. We arrive to find rain bucketing down from the sky and gale force winds sweeping across the sea front. Is this really a great place to escape to? We stuck around to find out…

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Japandroids – Post Nothing

May 19, 2009 Album, Reviews No Comments
Janapdroids

Janapdroids

Art and music is nearly always worth far more than the sum of its parts. I mean, all Van Gogh ever did was slap some oil paints with a horsehair brush onto cheap canvas. And all Shakespeare did was to dip a feather plucked from some poor bird’s backside into a pot of ink and scrawl on some cheap parchment.

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Classic album: You Am I – Hourly, Daily

You Am I - Hourly, Daily

You Am I - Hourly, Daily

Quite possibly the best kept secret in Australian music since The Saints had to leave down under and break London to get noticed, this album should by rights be part of the collection of anyone who has even a passing interest in guitar-based electric music – following on from the proto-grunge of debut Sound As Ever and the poppier Hi-Fi Way this is pure mod-pop heaven.

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Fightstar: the catch-up

Fightstar are at the epicentre of their career with their new album Be Human about to strike and a headline tour to follow. It has been eighteen months since they released their last album One Day Son This Will All Be Yours (not including their b-sides album Alternate Endings which was released last summer) and in that time the band have parted ways with their record label and set out on their own.

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Magnetic Morning – A.M.

May 4, 2009 Album, Reviews No Comments

Magnetic Morning

Magnetic Morning

Side projects

: they’re often a great thing. In their most positive manifestations, they provide members of established bands with the opportunity to cut loose and try out new musical ideas, freed from the constraints of working within a band with a strict aesthetic or freed from the expectations and pressures emanating from an established fanbase.

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November 29, 2009

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Capsula – Rising Mountains

June 2, 2009

Other than selected single tracks here and there from long-dead sixties bands I don’t reckon I’ve heard much by Argentinian rock groups.

Stag and Dagger, Glasgow: Take Two

May 31, 2009

Glasgow has needed a festival like this for ages.

Sonic Youth – The Eternal

May 31, 2009

If anything, new album The Eternal is even more direct and straight-rocking than its predecessor: it’s what 1992’s Dirty might have sounded like without Butch Vig’s polished production.

Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP

May 31, 2009

Varied, but not disjointed. Concise, but not half-formed.

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