Such is the ludicrously concerted throwback aesthetic to overpower every last She & Him album that it seems disorienting to talk of pressing play, as opposed to allowing for the dust-enshrouded needle to wheedle its stilted way toward black wax but I'm pressing play. And, shameful though it may be to say so, I'm thoroughly enjoying what I'm hearing. For She & Him are something of a guilty pleasure. They perhaps shouldn't be, such are their indie credentials, but that's exactly what they are. There's no two ways about it; no cause for discussion: [...]
Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart has a new solo project releasing this summer via Domino Records. The Argument has seriously literary -- as well as musical -- ambitions, based as it is on the legendary "Paradise Lost" poem by John Milton. The album sees the light of day on 22 July, but two preview songs have just been released to spark interest in the endeavour.
Truth be known, I know only a reprehensibly negligible amount about The Child of Lov , aka NL eccentric Cole Williams, other than he's a predilection for pineapple and ran with the whole anonymity thing for a while back there. Though out from the shadows and into the fray, he this week released his eponymous début full-length on Domino imprint Double Six – a record we neglected to review purely due to the above reasoning that we didn't really know enough of him to come out with anything cogent. Though no matter, for what must surely be an album standout [...]
Hüsker Dü drummer and vocalist, Grant Hart is set to release a new solo record - based on John Milton's classic poem 'Paradise Lost'. The book, which focusses on Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Garden of Eden, has been used as the subject to Hart's upcoming LP The Argument , out 22 July via Domino. The title seemingly refers to Book IV of the epic poem, which depicts Satan's first sighting of the first humans and his subsequent emotions. The tracklist is as follows, with [...]
Grant Hart -Â Is The Sky The Limit?
To even to so much as suggest Animal Collective's Centipede Hz LP of yesteryear was patchy would be at best a rich compliment, for truth be known it was by and large rather more miss than hit . We suggested then that it was one which needed more time to develop and grow on you tumorously, for it initially seemed ridden with larval earworms (earcentipedes, perhaps) in need of further fertilisation. Though as Brian DeGraw of albeit all too modest Gang Gang Dance fame tonks in with a viciously compelling [...]
You may well, and rather conceivably play on through this one multiple times before twigging what track it actually is that Alexis Taylor and his About Group gaggle go ad libbing this time around, for this extempore take on Dionne Warwick's Walk On By eschews the Bacharachian minor key melancholy in favour of a wilfully erratic improvisation. I never quite got why About Group were never afforded a greater cultural prominence than that which they were afforded a couple years ago around the release of their decidedly good Start And Complete LP, not least as [...]
Bill Ryder-Jones is a name a lot of American’s probably haven’t heard. Yet. Music Player: Bill Ryder-Jones 'He Took You In His Arms' [...]
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Any day that goes by without even so much as a transient burst of David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors is one which somehow leaves me feeling strangely unfulfilled. And truth be known, I've thus far this year rather neglected Swing Lo Magellan  so it's something of a saving grace that they released this one over the weekend. There's A Fire originally featured as the flipside to a limited white label release of Offspring Are Blank pressed especially to coincide with a show at New York's Carnegie Hall last month, and it's one to really rekindle [...]
Alexis Taylor has long since been something of an unorthodox heartthrob – perpetually gawky, although recurrently heartwarming and with that, reliably reassuring. And whether it be with Hot Chip, About Group or owt else, his studied output has been consistently exceptional. The trend comes to continue with a newfangled collaboration with Cologne techno nut Justus Köhncke (a name which may ping a few sampled bells, given his recent soundtrack work with Irmin Schmidt of Can) as the duo combine to create under the guise of Fainting by Numbers . A pun on an artform renowned for its absolute artlessness, there's a commensurate [...]
Our infatuation with Melody's Echo Chamber is both boundless, and tediously well documented so we shan't dwell on that to instead gleefully divulge the news that there's new material. Well, there's the one solitary slive of new material, which thankfully just so happens to be the scuzzy beauty known only as Je Me Perds de Vue. I think its title roughly translates to something about the loss of sight, which seems pretty suitable as it's a total blinder. Again. Prochet's vocal remains exquisitely nonchalant and fine as sunlight; Tame Impala lynchpin and Melody's lesser half Kevin Parker's sonic backdrop [...]
Bill Ryder-Jones, formerly of The Coral, is stepping out as a songwriter in his own right with his debut LP, A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart. 'He Took You In His Arms' is the first taste of what to expect from the forthcoming album. It's a gentle, touching slice of melancholy with a heart swelling melody. It is in [...]
While January has effectively lived up to its London billing as a month as drab musically as it is meteorologically, they're having a topsy-turvy time of it down under if recent triple j  Like A Version sessions are anything to go by. First there was dear ol' Sharon doing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' People Ain't No Good , and now there's this: David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors reinterpreting Usher's heady, chart-glooping Climax. Still swinging high off 'Magellan by the sounds of it, he's joined on the track by the band's [...]
Masked Liverpudlians Clinic released their seventh album, Free Reign , at the tail of of last year. Daniel Lopatin (of Ford & Lopitan) has remixed the entire record, put the songs in reverse order and the results will be released digitally in March as Free Reign II . You can check out a video for its " Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm" below. Clinic are heading to North American this spring for a tour surrounding the 2013 Austin Psych Fest, with two stops in NYC: April 19 at Glasslands and [...]
Well, ain't this one just a dagger to the heart. On "He Took You In His Arms," Bill Ryder-Jones of The Coral fame steps out as a songwriter while wielding his masterful composition abilities as a devastating weapon. It's the first salvo from the upcoming A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart , which is forthcoming from Domino imprint Double Six Records .
8 april släpper den forne The Coral-medlemmen Bill Ryder-Jones sin nya, och sin andra soloskiva, A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart. Första provet på hur den kan komma att låta är den riktigt, riktigt stilfulla och fina låten He Took You In His Arms.
Il y a maintenant trois ans, Villagers arrivait sur la planète rock avec Becoming A Jackal . Parfois très recherché, cet opus apparaissait comme la confirmation de la maturité du groupe, alors qu'il ne s'agissait en réalité que de leur premier album. C'est donc avec beaucoup d'impatience que la suite se faisait attendre... Sorti le 14 janvier 2013 sur le label Domino , {Awayland} est enfin disponible. L’album a été enregistré, produit et mixé par Conor O'Brien et Tommy McLaughlin, dans le studio irlandais Attica Audio. A l'heure où les .MP3 [...]
Not to be confused Gregor’s official list here and here . 2012 was an outstanding year for new music. Here’s the stuff I listened to the most: 15. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits 14. Clinic [...]
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