[We are proud to have the nearly award winning Pete Collins on board for this review. His interjections are cleverly formatted in italics for your extra pleasure. Normally, he can be found here . Plus some of the pictures are his] With home printed programmes, highlighted with our preferences for the running order, we discussed our day at Sounds From The Other City with a warm up pint. What we should've done is fashion said printouts into little boats and sent them down the bloody Irwell given the use they were - this turned into [...]
In 48 hours I'll be airborne, flying east towards Newark Airport, set to embark on a lengthy trip that will take me from the East Coast of these United States all the way around the world to Delhi, India. To say I'm excited would be the understatement of the year. I'm really, really looking forward [...]
Supernormal Festival (19-21 August '11) // Words: Kieran Toms It's not easy to do something that is completely out of the ordinary, yet on your own terms, particularly when creating a festival, where the choosing of bands is often influenced more by financial concerns than artistic integrity. Yet Supernormal Festival seems to have done it. By being, in their own words, a "a 3-day determinedly non-commercial, non-funded, not-for-profit event", organised by artists [...]
[Picture of Teeth of the Sea courtesy of @PeteCollinsMCR of 'Having A Party Without Me' infamy] The Ritz is renowned for its sprung dance floor and sticky carpet. Stories of its acrid and overpowering stink are less common amongst the residents of Manchester. And my word it pongs. This irrefutable fact must have contributed to the late showing of any form of animation amongst a generally sleepy crowd gathered last night to see British Sea Power and Teeth of the Sea: trying to catch your breath whilst moving and bopping only results in the inhalation of [...]
We used a spreadsheet this year. Yes, a bloody spreadsheet. It's still not a perfect representation of what was an excellent year for music or, in fact, what we individually valued, but it will have to do. And at least we arrived at a top ten rather than the fudge of a top four we presented to you, adoring reader(s), this time last year. Residing in the bubbling under category for 2010 were cracking albums by: The Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus, Holy Fuck, Wavves, Silver Mt Zion, The Divine Comedy, To Rococo Rot, Gold [...]
We like this band. We reviewed their first album at the start of 2009 , made it #3 in our chart of that year's albums , and loved the EP they put out last February (and not just because it included something off the Flash Gordon soundtrack). Thankfully everyone else loves them too. And here's the second album. The band have clearly developed their sound, with this album adding more electronic noises and rhythms, found sounds, and ritual elements, making it both fuller and more varied. It's a little less straightforwardly unhinged than [...]
Some contemporary bands peddling psychedelic synapse fry-ups stick a bit too respectfully close to the templates honed by their esteemed forebears. Others prefer to sniff the flowers whilst focusing on the prettier aspects of mind-expansion. Teeth of the Sea aren't convinced by either approach. Having sampled amp-abusing noise-rock on acclaimed 2009 debut Orphaned by the Sea , the London-based collective set sail towards uncharted waters with their second full-length. Highly skilled at unleashing squealing, feedback-crusted noise heated to the molten lava-temperatures found at the core of an active volcano, but also willing to take [...]
A musick n artz extravaganza...
The papal office has an unparalleled record of corruption and criminality over the centuries, and the true history of the popes is one of scandals, cruelty, debauchery, reigns of terror, warfare and moral depravity. For centuries, the Church maintained a comprehensive account of the lives of the popes during which amazing excesses were recorded. Official [...]
Galvanised! Festival has been going for four years now, bringing a diverse set of experimental music to the masses. This year's festival sees two curated nights at London's Cafe Oto exploring the ecology of performance, based around the terms of singularities and clusters: TUESDAY 19TH OCTOBER SINGULARITIES - will be a series of SOLO performances where all the acts will be in the centre of the performance space. Each act will play just one track/piece of music per turn then work through the sets in rotation, creating an unfolding series of performances. [...]
The blog infrastructure went feral on us as we were typing this evening, so you are only getting one song this time. But it should be enough. (This is a black ops patch featured in the book that we stole the title of this post from- you can get it here. And as ever, thanks [...]
Teeth Of The Sea have to go down as one of the most impressive, promising and down-right amazing bands of the moment. Their take on post-rock has shaken the genre from its predictable slumber. And now they're back with a new album. To be released on 22nd November, Your Mercury is the result of months recording in the North London district of Manor House. Near a pub and in an old, converted, piano factory. Can't wait to get my grubby ears into this... Tracklisting 01 TransfiniTe 02 The ambassador [...]
One of the most unmissable, if unlikely, menus that the Luminaire has ever offered paired two of the acts currently near the top of my most-desperately-wanting-to-se e list (how did they know?) as irresistible starter and un-turndownable dessert, and threw in some proggy palette cleanser between those courses. My current obsession with Sheffield's Singing Knives label [...]
Patience, patience dear reader, there are so many things you could do in 20 minutes, you could capture the secrets of the Zeitgeist in your feeble fist, like an ephemeral firefly whose wings are loaded with the power of the now, indeed, you could skim the surf bubbling at the top of the wave before [...]
So here's what you've all been waiting for - our top four albums of the year. Produced through complicated Venn diagrams and extended algorithms. 1- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport Sublime. What more can we say? Rough Steez Flight Of The Feathered Serpent 2 - Brakes - Touchdown Another of those bands we love to bits - we both saw them live this year and are still [...]
don't miss this , it's gonna be fucking ace...
One of your 20jazzfunkgreats scribes is rocking those motherfucking epistemological styles, you know how it goes. Paul Feyerabend, dark polemic master of methodological anarchism blows some minds in Against Method: the real scientist improves the theory of Genesis until it challenges evolution. Behold Foot Village doing that with dance music- first ...
19th August - The croft, Bristol Wow…. Teeth of the Sea , or sea of teeth as I like to call them, envisioning a rolling tide of gnashing incisors … were bloody amazing, so excuse the lack of pics… those floor tom's killed me with their viciousness… early 80's post punk shivers… Dance Chapter , In Camera (no not the Heemann project) even Mass …broken-youth-musick, the guitar's [...]
by mersenne The electronic soundscape / noise / ambient / drone scene is burgeouning with great releases these days whether they be CDs or CDRs and casettes on small labels. Artists are fusing different styles and influences into textural forms and despite being highly autonomous and seperate from each other most have a similar aesthetic. I guess it's part of the zeitgeist after all. Just found another connection today some bands have a connection to sea. Prepare to get terrorised. + Teeth of the Sea 's " Orphaned by the Ocean " [...]
The electronic soundscape / noise / ambient / drone scene is burgeouning with great releases these days whether they be CDs or CDRs and casettes on small labels. Artists are fusing different styles and influences into textural forms and despite being highly autonomous and seperate from each other most have a similar aesthetic. I guess it's part of the zeitgeist after all. Just found another connection today some bands have a connection to sea. Prepare to get terrorised. + Teeth of the Sea 's " Orphaned by the Ocean " is one of 2009's best [...]
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