
Looking at the lists from the indie cognoscenti this year my eyes tend to get heavy and it becomes hard to stay awake. I'm beginning to see why my grandfather wasn't able to stay awake when he watched the Dukes of Hazzard with me when I was a kid. I'm not quite to that point yet, as I was able to keep myself lucid long enough to compile my top 25 albums of the year. Have at it. 1. Eddy [...]

Les Cox (Sportifs) Le nom est étrange, les affiches de concert aussi , ils ont un morceau qui s'intitule « C.O.A.S.T.A.L.M.O.T.H.E.R.F.U. C.K.E.R » sur leur premier album intitulé Scheiß Mit Reis (en anglais ça donne Fuck With Rice), je vous présente Les Cox (Sportifs) ! Ils sont Anglais, leur QG se situe à Newcastle, et font du post-punk qui n'aurait pas fait [...]
Aug 2, 2010, 3:40pm
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Les Cox (Sportifs) - "John E. Millais" John Everett Millais was not a Pre-Raphaelite painter, he was a heartbreaker and a grade-A creep. He took lemon in his coffee and he once told a mistress of his, "May you die shallowly, may death grate your life away like so much aged Cheshire." [ Buy ] Continue reading at Said the Gramophone →

Les Cox (Sportifs) don't sound like they just released an album last week. They sound like they could have been born in the late 702s post punk scene. Their dissident noise accented by choppy rhythms, minimal crunchy guitar and Christopher Rollen's heavy accent makes me believe that they are the rightful heirs to the stolen chalice of arty lo-fi art school pop that Yummy Fur snagged from the Fall , Fire Engines and the first Modern Lovers record. Scheiß Mit Reis is the first full length [...]

Earth Tones Mix Hope y'all enjoy this mix which I put together in celebration of my two loves: loose, organic rock n' roll and homewares. Dig the classixxx from Wire and Blur; new jams from future heroes Surf City and Super Wild Horses; and forgotten brilliance from Angry Samoans and western Sydney originators The Numbers. 1. Surf City - Autumn 2. Super Wild Horses - Golden Town 3. Wire - Outdoor Miner 4. The Numbers - The Modern Song 5. Angry Samoans - Electrocution 6. Les Cox (Sportifs) - Reduction Strategies 7. [...]

Les Cox (sportifs) - Reduction Strategies Out of the po-faced scene and the bits of England that aren't quite Scotland (where bands tend to bend rules and generally "vibe" more) these guys shove wonky jangles ala The Rebel or Country Teasers into purer pop hooks, getting frisky with drum machines while rooting for those weird guys and dwelling on a superbly English sense of Englishness that I've been getting more and more pre-occupied with especially pre-election where the politics are solely personality based and the personalities are dull as fucking dishwater, not in a bad way [...]